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Women in Pakistan are stepping into leadership, challenging norms, and creating ripples of change - because progress doesn’t stop when a project ends.
Here's a look at the strides we've made in our journey towards anti-racism, JEDI and decolonization.
Thanks to a contribution of $4.9 million from the Government of Canada and almost $231,000 from Oxfam Canada, more than 5,916 people in Kenya (including 4,451 women) will be directly…
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.
Generation Equality Forum: A blueprint for gender equality “Human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights” – a key refrain from the Fourth United Nations World Conference…
This open letter to Ministers Carolyn Bennett and Marc Miller expresses solidarity with Indigenous people in Canada in the face of ongoing genocide.
Budget 2021 is an opportunity for Canada, in the spirit of global cooperation, to deliver its fair and responsible share of international climate financing ahead of COP26.
While we are in the midst of the most significant global public health crisis of our lifetime, the veil is being lifted on an economic system that rewards the wealthy…
So you want to invest in women and girls. You want to improve lives and tackle deep-seated problems. But will you be tokenistic or transformational?
How governments and communities respond to the coronavirus today have the potential to shape our society for years, and potentially generations, to come.
Canada’s bold commitments to Women, Peace and Security hold tremendous potential. But this potential will go unrealized if Canada simultaneously fuels wars that harm women.
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…
Understanding gender is about seeing the economy as a gendered structure, containing norms and assumptions about roles, responsibilities and behaviours.
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…
