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Over the past few weeks, campuses have erupted with calls for peace and justice as Pro-Palestinian student-led protests and encampments have sprung up across Canadian universities from Vancouver, Calgary, Ottawa,…
For many Canadian families, securing low-fee, high-quality, and inclusive early learning and child care has been an uphill battle. But change is happening, and our voices are more vital than…
Take this quiz to find out how much you know about the connection between climate change and inequality and learn more about our work to ensure a more equal future.
Gain a fresh perspective on this year's UN General Assembly with insights from our director of policy and campaigns, Diana Sarosi.
Gain insights into this year's Women Deliver conference in Kigali, Rwanda, through the eyes of Erin Kiley, Oxfam Canada's director of international programs.
Flawed accounting systems are not giving the true picture of climate finance As global greenhouse emissions continue to rise, and climate change wreaks more havoc upon the people and places…
Urgent international support needed now to help communities buckling under the strain Thousands of South Sudanese communities are opening their own doors and offering their meagre resources to refugees fleeing…
Up to 90% of water boreholes in parts of Somalia, Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia have entirely dried up One in five people in drought-stricken East Africa – a total…
One month after the earthquakes that struck Türkiye killing more than 45,000 people and destroyed hundreds of thousands of buildings and major infrastructure, aid and donations for survivors has sharply…
Oxfam, together with our partners in Turkiye (Turkey) and Syria, is working to reach nearly two million people – 10 per cent of the population affected by the quake –…
How many of these international development terms do you know? Test your knowledge by answering these five quick questions and find out!
How Oxfam's contributions to SDG 16 embrace inclusive dialogues and collaborations between civil society groups and institutional entities to achieve progress on the rest of the SDGs.
The richest one per cent grabbed nearly two-thirds of all new wealth created since 2020, worth $42 trillion, almost twice as much money as the bottom 99 per cent of…
Today’s UN 2023 Global Humanitarian Overview report reveals that 339 million people are in urgent need of humanitarian aid – the highest caseload in history. One in every 23 people…
Oxfam is supporting the Humanitarian Knowledge Hub (JMK) in responding to the earthquake which hit Cianjur and Sukabumi in Indonesia last week. The partners have started distributing basic sanitation kits…
Billionaire investments in polluting industries, such as fossil fuels and cement, double their weighting in the Standard and Poor group of 500 companies – Oxfam The investments of just 125…
Oxfam is responding in four countries and urging more international assistance to help people facing severe hunger due to climate change, conflict, and economic shocks.
Lower income countries paying the highest price as emissions and fossil fuel profits rocket An average of 189 million people per year have been affected by extreme weather-related events in…
Reporting international climate finance remains flawed, and profoundly unfair Many rich countries are using dishonest and misleading accounting to inflate their climate finance contributions to developing countries – in 2020…
One person is likely to die of hunger every 36 seconds between now and the end of the year in drought-stricken East Africa as the worst hit areas hurtle towards…
Oxfam's cash-for-work programs provide income opportunities for Syrian refugees in Jordan.
Two years since one of the biggest non-nuclear explosions in history ripped through Beirut, the city and the people living in it are still struggling to recover from the impact…
Ahead of the end of the current UN-led truce agreement on August 2, 2022, humanitarian organizations in Yemen urge all parties to the conflict to adhere to and extend the…
Yemen is facing unprecedented rises in the price of food putting millions more people in danger of catastrophic hunger, Oxfam warned today. Already exhausted by over seven years of conflict,…
Every 26 hours a new billionaire is created. Inequality worsens humanitarian crises to climate change. It’s time to close the inequality gap.
