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Oxfam Canada consulted with women’s rights advocates, Indigenous women, organized labour and other humanitarian groups to develop these ten recommendations for Budget 2025. By embracing all ten actions outlined above…
by Oxfam Canada | August 16, 2024
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Addressing Inequalities in Child Care and Inclusion
Policy Brief
We publish research that unpacks the barriers to equitable and inclusive access to child care. The "Child Care for Whom?" paper identifies the challenges underrepresented groups of women experience in…
by Oxfam Canada | May 16, 2024
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The combined impacts of climate change, spiking food and energy price inflation, and ongoing and worsening conflict are wreaking havoc on the world’s most vulnerable people. Women and gender diverse…
by Oxfam Canada | October 8, 2023
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Inspiring Change
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Oxfam Canada’s new guide to gender-based analysis plus in impact assessment in Canada is a road map to support activists and community members of all genders and identities in navigating…
by Oxfam Canada | April 13, 2023
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On Bill S-211: An Act to Enact the Fighting Against Forced Labour and Child Labour in Supply Chains Act
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Learn about Oxfam Canada's submission on Bill S-211: An Act to enact the Fighting Against Forced Labour and Child Labour in Supply Chains Act to the Standing Committee on Foreign…
by Oxfam Canada | December 2, 2022
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Policy Brief: Donor Investment in the Care Economy
Policy Brief
Women’s heavy and unequal responsibility for care is recognized as barrier to objectives like sustainable development and inclusive growth. This brief advocates for increased investments in feminist care programming and…
by Oxfam Canada | March 9, 2022
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The What She Makes campaign is calling on Canadian fashion brands to pay a living wage in their supply chains and uphold international labour rights.
by Oxfam Canada | August 31, 2021
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The COVID-19 pandemic is having the most profound impacts on those already experiencing poverty and marginalization, in Canada and around the world. Learn about why we need a feminist response.
by Oxfam Canada | May 20, 2020
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Ensuring that women, girls and people of diverse sexual orientation and gender identity and expression have full autonomy over their lives and bodies is necessary for improved health and education…
by Oxfam Canada | October 10, 2019
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Women’s unequal burden of care is increasingly being recognized as a key barrier to their social, political and economic empowerment, and to wider objectives like sustainable development and inclusive growth.
by Oxfam Canada | October 10, 2019
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Conflicts and crises radically affect social, economic, cultural and political structures and create risks for women, girls and gender-diverse people, exacerbating existing inequalities. However, this kind of collapse can also…
by Oxfam Canada | October 10, 2019