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Five Facts About Climate Change and Inequality

  • Advocacy in Canada
  • Climate Change

How does the climate emergency deepen poverty, gender inequality, conflict, and hunger?

A Black woman holding a yellow bucket stands outside her destroyed house surrounded by palm trees against a cloudy sky.

Why Supply Chain Legislation is a Feminist Issue for Canadian Fashion

  • Advocacy in Canada
  • Women’s Economic Justice

Five reasons we need a law that requires Canadian fashion brands to end human rights abuses in garment factories abroad.

Portrait of a young Bangladeshi woman wearing a blue headscarf, looking directly at camera, not smiling. She's sitting behind a brown and black sowing machine, working on a piece of bright pink clothing in a room with white walls.

Leader or Laggard? Canada is at the Crossroads of Corporate Accountability

Advocacy in Canada

Op-ed: Why the government should adopt legislation to ensure Canadian companies respect human rights and the environment abroad.

Close up of a woman wearing a turquoise long sleeve shirt with red flowers holding a tag that reads "Made in Bangladesh." The photo doesn't show her face, just her upper body.

Statement of Solidarity with Wet’suwet’en Nation Land Defenders

Advocacy in Canada

Oxfam expresses our solidarity with the First Nations peoples of the unceded, unsurrendered Wet’suwet’en and Gitxsan territories, who are standing up for their rights and sovereignty in the face of…

A group of people of various genders, ages and skin tones are bundled up against the cold as they march together in a daytime protest down a snowy street in downtown Ottawa, Canada. Many people are carrying protest signs. but only one sign, which is being held up in the the middle of the photograph, is visible. It says All eyes on Wet'suwet'en. Behind this sign, there is a Canadian flag.

Alberta's Oil Cleanup Program: A Cautionary Tale for Investors and Regulators

  • Advocacy in Canada
  • Climate Change

If done well, oil and gas cleanup programs are not only environmental necessities but represent important economic and social opportunities and minimize investment risks.

An industrial oil pump jack working on farm land under a morning sky in Rocky View County, Alberta, Canada.

International Women's Day - women lifting each other up

Advocacy in Canada

International Women’s Day is a time when we stand up and stand together for women’s rights around the world.

Woman with hat on in red shirt and jeans standing among trees in Colombia.

5 things Canada’s next government should do to curb corporate abuses of human rights

Advocacy in Canada

Canada desperately needs to update its approach on corporate accountability. The SNC-Lavalin affair that rocked the Canadian government earlier this year provided a stark picture of how corporate influence operates…

Mining 101: How Canada's huge extractive sector fits into the struggle for gender justice

Advocacy in Canada

As Oxfam works to end women’s economic inequality, transforming the mining, oil and gas industries is an enormous challenge – and also a big opportunity.

ommunities relocated to make way for gold mines in Ghana struggle with loss of agricultural land, unemployment, and environmental damage. Photo Credit: Neil Brander/Oxfam America
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