The USAID Collapse: What It Means for Global Humanitarian Aid and How Canada Must Respond
A Devastating Blow to Global Aid The recent dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development…
5 Critical Things to Know About the Current Crisis in Gaza
The people of Gaza continue to endure immense suffering. While a temporary ceasefire has provided a…
Building hope, and rebuilding a clinic in Ethiopia
Hope was one of things most easily lost when conflict arrived in BirBir, a community in…
Coding, Crafting, Cultivating: Somali Women Securing Their Futures
In the shadow of a conflict and climate emergency crisis in Somalia and Somaliland, young women…
From Camps to Classrooms: The Battle for Refugee Girls’ Education
It’s impossible to miss Amer. She commands attention above most at over six feet tall –…
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Davos 2025: A Turning Point or Another Missed Opportunity?
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Finding safety, but struggling for better nutrition in refugee camp
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“When I saw the devastation in our community, the dead bodies floating, and my future crashing,…
I Knew I Wouldn’t Starve
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Camino Verde Project Exceeds Targets for Indigenous Women’s Agricultural Enrollment
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Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza: Oxfam’s Response and How to Take Action
For more than sixty harrowing days, the already dire situation in North Gaza has grown even…
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Extreme hunger on the rise in Yemen, one year from end of ceasefire: Oxfam
Over a third of the Yemeni population is facing extreme hunger, with child malnutrition rates amongst the highest in the world. One year after the temporary peace agreement’s expiration, Oxfam calls on all sides of the conflict to strive for a sustainable and inclusive peace and for cuts to the international aid effort to be…
Campaign action calls on Aritzia to lift garment workers out of poverty
Today, Oxfam Canada and partners are organizing an event in Vancouver to raise awareness about the difficulties faced by Cambodian garment workers and to encourage reflection on these issues. To participate, people can visit the Aritzia store at 1100 Robson St. from 3 to 5 p.m. PDT. Sewing machines will be set up outside the…
Rich nations paid less than 5 percent of the $53.3 billion East Africa needs to confront the climate crisis
Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia and South Sudan have incurred $7.4bn of livestock losses alone as a result of climate change Despite being largely responsible for the worsening climate crisis in East Africa, rich nations paid Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and South Sudan just $2.4 billion in climate-related development finance in 2021, in stark contrast to the $53.3…
1 in 5 water boreholes we dig now is dry, unfit for humans to drink : OXFAM
Climate-induced water insecurity poses one of the biggest threats to humanity and will lead to more hunger, disease and displacement Oxfam water engineers are having to drill deeper, more expensive and harder-to-maintain water boreholes used by some of the poorest communities around the world, more often now only to find dry, depleted or polluted reservoirs.…