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What’s on the Table at the COP29 Climate Summit?

Climate Change

A new global deal on climate finance is crucial in slowing the pace of climate change, adapting to the new climatic conditions and rebuilding communities damaged and destroyed by climate…

A woman in a headscarf and a white back over her shoulder walks through an arid, drought-stricken place with cracked earth.

Why Women’s Rights?

Women's Transformative Leadership

At Oxfam, we put women’s rights at the center of everything we do, because when women’s rights are respected, women are healthier, better educated and better paid. Children, communities, organizations…

Why Gender Justice is Critical to Climate Justice

  • Advocacy in Canada
  • Climate Change
  • Natural Disasters

For international climate finance to be successful, it must be feminist.

A young Black girl wearing a white and blue uniform is in a body of water surrounded by mountains, standing next to her yellow canoe.

1 in 5 water boreholes we dig now is dry, unfit for humans to drink : OXFAM

Climate Change

Climate-induced water insecurity poses one of the biggest threats to humanity and will lead to more hunger, disease and displacement Oxfam water engineers are having to drill deeper, more expensive…

Worst monsoon rains in over a century submerge most of northeast Bangladesh and devastate the lives of 4.3 million people

  • Emergency Response
  • Natural Disasters

Monsoon rains – the worst in 122 years – have inundated major rivers in northeastern Bangladesh and submerged thousands of houses, impacting 4.3 million people. The worse is yet to…

4 Links Between the War in Ukraine and the Horn of Africa Hunger Crisis

  • Climate Change
  • Conflict and War
  • Emergency Response
  • Hunger

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.

People are walking on a paved road, and two cars are parked in the distance. None of the people are facing the camera. Most of them seem to be women and children, wearing winter clothing and carrying bags. The main focus of the photograph is three people featured in the front centre, not facing the camera. A woman in blue jeans and a blue jean jacket carries a brown purse and two big reusable supermarket bags. Two boys wearing navy blue winter coats and winter boots are to her right. The shortest one holds both the woman’s hands and the taller boy’s hands.

To the New Cabinet: Seize this Moment for People, Planet and Justice

Climate Change

Two-thirds of Canadians want strong action on the climate crisis within the first 100 days in office. Now is the time for the Cabinet to bridge our credibility gap and…

View of dry brown terrain and a blue sky with thick white clouds in the horizon. Far away, to our right, a man shepards his three goats.

Delivering on the Promise of Climate Finance

  • Advocacy in Canada
  • Climate Change

Canada and other wealthy countries made a commitment to deliver $100 billion per year by 2020 to help developing countries adapt to climate change and reduce emissions. This is where…

In London activists gathered in Westminster outside the Houses of Parliament to protest against climate change on Friday, September 20. There is a crowd standing in front of trees with a protest sign that says "I strike in solidarity with the people in the forefront of climate change".

As Global Leaders Talk Climate, Women in the Dry Corridor Are Working to Survive

Advocacy in Canada

While Central America is responsible for only 0.5 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, families living in the Dry Corridor of El Salvador are heavily affected by the deepening…

Open Letter to Deputy Minister Freeland on Climate Finance

Advocacy in Canada

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.

A dark-skinned young woman in a long, black-and-white patterned dress and a red and black head scarf is standing in a drought-ridden field while her baby sleeps in a yellow and black sling.

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.

Larissa Crawford: Racial justice is climate justice

Advocacy in Canada

” Tackling racism requires us to tackle climate change. The root causes are one in the same.“ When Larissa founded Future Ancestors, she knew she wanted to do things differently. Published Indigenous…

Woman standing in front of lake and mountains

Paris +5: COVID-19 is a wake-up call on the need for gender-responsive climate action

Advocacy in Canada

This week marks the 5th anniversary of the Paris Agreement on climate change, a landmark agreement by 196 countries to take action on climate change.

In an open field at dusk, burned trees are surrounded by wildfire on the ground and smoke-filled skies.

Cyclone Idai one year on: A stark reminder of climate change’s impact on women

  • Advocacy in Canada
  • Emergency Response

When Cyclone Idai swept across Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe on March 14, 2019, it was deemed one of the worst cyclones ever to hit Africa, killing over a thousand people…

Climate change driving drought crisis in Horn of Africa

  • Advocacy in Canada
  • Hunger

People in the Somali Region of Ethiopia, like many others in Kenya and Somalia, are now enduring near-constant severe drought. Despite bearing no responsibility for the factors driving climate change,…

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

Climate change brings chaos to impoverished region of India

  • Advocacy in Canada
  • Women's Transformative Leadership

Climate change has affected the normally predictable seasons in this impoverished region of India. The monsoons last longer, are larger and, in 2017, were accompanied by Cyclone Mora.

Humanitarian assistant to flood affected communities in Assam. An Oxfam hygiene and shelter kit distribution. Photo credit: Oxfam India

Food Companies Race to the Summit

Advocacy in Canada

It’s a key moment. Climate change is the single biggest threat to winning the fight against hunger, and food companies haven’t been doing enough to tackle it. Their substantial greenhouse…

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