Why Contraception Matters More Than Ever
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Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights up close: 5 stories that show us what choice really looks like
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Canada’s Affordability Crisis Needs More Than Band-Aid Solutions
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Staying and Delivering Aid in Gaza
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Ten Years On: Reflections from a Decade of Gender Programming
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Rising Up Against Wealth Inequality in Canada
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As world leaders descend on Davos, we need to talk about inequality
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Canada is still sending weapons to Israel – by supporting Bill C-233 you can help put a stop to it
Canada is still sending weapons to Israel. This despite more than two years of active genocide…
5 Ways You Helped Oxfam Fight Inequality in 2025
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5 Things We’re Loving This Holiday Season
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Rehabilitated well now “strong and sufficient”
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Feministing Foreign Policy – A Global Conversation Comes to Ottawa
On September 15, 2015, three Nobel peace laureates joined Canadian women thought-leaders in Ottawa for an inspiring pre-federal election conversation on the potential for feminist ideas and approaches to transform foreign policy. This free event was organized by the Nobel Women’s Initiative, Oxfam Canada, Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights and the Up for…
Long Road to Peace Begins in South Sudan
Juba, SOUTH SUDAN – The signing of the peace agreement by President Salva Kiir Mayardit is a positive step toward ending the brutal 20 month civil war but aid agencies CARE, IRC, Oxfam and World Vision say it is only the beginning of a long, hard journey towards peace and reconciliation. International and regional diplomatic…
Up for Debate – Plan B
The Up for Debate campaign announced today that it has confirmation from four major parties to explore an alternative debate format to put women at the centre of Canada’s federal election campaign. It is still hoping for confirmation from the fifth. Ann Decter, Director of Policy and Advocacy at the YWCA an Up For Debate…
NGOs call on World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) to empower women
The World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) aims at major global reforms to better protect and assist people affected by crisis. The undersigned organisations call on the WHS to put women’s leadership, gender equality and gender-based violence (GBV) at the heart of these reforms. Research and experience have demonstrated how the failure to address the gendered impacts…