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We are thrilled to announce the recipients of the 2023 community-based SRHR funding initiative.
Together with local organizations, we are empowering young women and adolescent girls to make decisions about their sexual and reproductive health (SRHR).
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Five years ago, women’s rights actors from around the world gathered in Vancouver to attend the 2019 Women Deliver conference. Following years of advocacy by Oxfam Canada and our allies,…
Young people deserve the freedom to be their authentic selves and to be respected in school - including trans and gender-diverse youth. Which is why on this International Day Against…
Learn how through visual art, Indian youth challenge gender norms and inequalities in their communities.
Learn everything you need to about how to apply for our financial support for initiatives focused on promoting sexual health and reproductive rights.
Feminist movements play a crucial role in improving sexual and reproductive health, including access to abortion.
How Oxfam Canada places sexual and reproductive health decisions back into the hands of women and girls in Mozambique and other countries.
The Sexual Health and Empowerment (SHE) project provides women and girls with the knowledge and means to make informed choices about their sexual and reproductive health so that they can…
Oxfam Canada meets Penelope Sanyu, founder and CEO of Femme Forte Uganda.
The third and final 2022 funding recipients for the Her Future, Her Choice Financial Support for Community-Based SRHR Initiatives, funded by Global Affairs Canada.
Announcing the funding recipients for the second round of Her Future, Her Choice Financial Support for Community-Based Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) Initiative, funded by Global Affairs Canada.
The gender-crossing "babaylan," a Filipino version of a shaman in the pre-colonial era, is an icon for LGBTQIA+ activists fighting to outlaw discrimination in the Philippines.
After the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on abortion, we must keep advancing, supporting and protecting reproductive rights in Canada and across the world.
In reaction to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on abortion, Lauren Ravon, Executive Director, Oxfam Canada stated: “Today, the U.S. Supreme Court has delivered a devastating blow to women’s human…
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…
Oxfam celebrates Pride Month to express gratitude to our LGBTQI+ partner organizations and activists for contributing to social progress, human rights and equality.
The threat of the far-right extremism is growing in Canada. Ideas and rhetoric that were once seen as the outliers of society have been normalized through a series of events…
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.
Announcing the funding recipients for the Her Future, Her Choice Financial Support for Community-Based Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) Initiative.
Girls are largely invisible in Philippine legislation and policy, a new bill that will make child marriage illegal is hoping to change that.
Sexual and reproductive health services, including safe abortion, are essential, life-saving care, which does not change in times of crisis.
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.
An Oxfam in the Philippines SRHR project officer talks about the need to remove the veil of stigma and shame when it comes to viewing our bodies and sexuality.
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…
How do you talk about your period? Sure, menstruation may not be a common topic amongst friends on a Friday night but when it does crop up — do you…
In the Philippines, deeply rooted social norms make it difficult for women and girls to take control of their sexual health. Daryl Leyesa, a women's rights activist leading Oxfam Canada's Sexual…
Canada’s support for women and girls to exercise their rights to bodily autonomy, make choices about their own reproductive health and be treated with dignity and respect is driving economic,…
In an era divided between hostility and progress towards realizing women’s rights – and all people’s inalienable rights – Canada can’t afford to back away from the sexual and reproductive…
