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In Canada, we observe the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, a global movement that calls on everyone to reflect on GBV’s pervasive nature and our shared responsibility to…
Learn how through visual art, Indian youth challenge gender norms and inequalities in their communities.
Learn why the WE-Talk project, an initiative from Oxfam Canada and WMW Jamaica, uses artificial intelligence (AI) to study how Jamaicans talk about gender-based violence online.
Northern Ethiopia is emerging from a brutal two-year conflict. In spite of the trauma, communities are standing up and rewriting the rules.
Feminist movements play a crucial role in improving sexual and reproductive health, including access to abortion.
A firsthand account of what a difference Oxfam Canada supporters are making to a community in Amhara, northern Ethiopia - a region that has been through so much.
Oxfam Canada's testimony at the Parliamentary Subcommittee on International Human Rights on women's rights worldwide, including recommendations to the government of Canada on how to support women human rights defenders…
Oxfam Canada stands firmly with transgender, non-binary, and gender diverse communities in Canada and across the world. Our feminism is unequivocally and unapologetically inclusive of trans rights, and we are…
Thanks to a contribution of $7.9 million from the Government of Canada and close to $400,000 from Oxfam Canada, more than 20,000 crisis-affected women and adolescent girls in Myanmar will…
The economic impacts of the war in Ukraine – including unprecedented food and energy price inflation – are being felt by the most vulnerable in our deeply unequal world.
Through the Creating Spaces project, these women champion female leadership to advance gender justice.
How communities in east and south Asia tackled gender-based violence and changed laws and social norms to protect women and girls.
Karen Sander, the Chair of the Board of Oxfam Canada, traveled to Bangladesh with senior and program staff from Oxfam. This is her story.
This open letter to Ministers Carolyn Bennett and Marc Miller expresses solidarity with Indigenous people in Canada in the face of ongoing genocide.
Noor, 18, shares her story of walking away from domestic violence in Pakistan, which has been labelled an endemic social and public health problem with more than 24 per cent…
International Women’s Day is a time when we stand up and stand together for women’s rights around the world.
Girls are largely invisible in Philippine legislation and policy, a new bill that will make child marriage illegal is hoping to change that.
COVID-19 has prompted global leaders to sound the alarm about the horrifying worldwide rise in violence against women and children during lockdown.
How governments and communities respond to the coronavirus today have the potential to shape our society for years, and potentially generations, to come.
These inspiring young SRHR activists are raising the equality bar for women in Mozambique.
More than 8,000 women’s rights advocates descended on Vancouver in June 2019 to attend Women Deliver, the world’s largest conference on gender equality and the health, rights and well-being of…
Tackling gender inequality and gender-based violence should be top priorities in places like South Sudan, but these issues are often seen as less urgent than “life-saving priorities” like food, shelter…
Gender inequality is the most serious and pervasive form of discrimination in the world. But with new laws and social movements, change is possible.
Following the Harvey Weinstein allegations, I kept hearing the same refrain as more women added their voices to #MeToo and shared stories of sexual violence: how did I let that…
Getting laws on paper is one critical step in global efforts to address violence against women and girls, but we must also continue in our struggle to get governments to…
Oxfam is investing in an approach called Transformative Leadership for Women’s Rights based on the idea that when men and women are leaders in a way that embodies human rights,…
The evidence is clear: Strong development and the achievement of women’s rights are intrinsically bound – in everything from economic growth, access to education, food and health security to the…
