A new analysis from Oxfam on International Workers’ Day shows that, in Canada, workers took a 3.4 per cent pay cut in 2022, losing on average $1,992 CAD and working 7.2 days effectively unpaid because wages did not keep up with inflation. The total losses for workers in Canada was almost $39 billion CAD. “While corporate bosses … Read more
On International Women’s Day, Oxfam Canada’s seventh annual Feminist Scorecard, Feminist Action In A World Of Crises, grades the federal government’s actions on its progress between March 2022-February 2023 in 12 policy areas. “The government had some important wins this past year with its ambitious child care agenda and historic public investment to provide affordable, inclusive and … Read more
More than half the population of South Sudan – 6.6 million people – are severely hungry, including 2.2 million people at risk of starvation. Yet the humanitarian response remains woefully underfunded. Without an urgent increase in aid now, two-thirds of the population will face severe food shortages next year, Oxfam warned today. Oxfam is urging donors … Read more
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. Climate change, conflict, the economic fallouts of COVID-19, and food and energy price inflation are creating the perfect storm for the world’s poorest people. The deteriorating global situation has set back the … Read more
Lauren Ravon, executive director of Oxfam Canada, issued a statement: “Today, the U.S. Supreme Court has delivered a devastating blow to women’s human rights, declaring through the reversal of Roe v. Wade that reproductive rights, including the right to access safe, legal abortion care, no longer exist in the United States,” she said. “We at Oxfam Canada … Read more
Oxfam published a new brief, Profiting from Pain, which finds that for every new billionaire created during the pandemic — one every 30 hours — nearly a million people could be pushed into extreme poverty in 2022 at nearly the same rate. “The Canadian government talks a good game about taxing extreme wealth inequality but we … Read more
Oxfam and Save the Children published a report highlighting the world’s repeated failure to stave off preventable disasters. Dangerous Delay2: The Cost of Inaction, examines the changes in the humanitarian aid system since 2011.“Despite all the warning signs, rich countries like Canada have given too little too late – leaving millions of people facing catastrophic hunger. Hunger, … Read more
World leaders have not done enough to achieve their goal of vaccinating 70 per cent of people in each country by September, campaigners with the People’s Vaccine Alliance warned ahead of the second virtual summit on COVID-19 hosted by U.S. President Joe Biden along with Belize, Germany, Indonesia, and Senegal. “At this second COVID Summit, we should be … Read more
The human cost of the war in Yemen is rising sharply as the conflict enters its eighth year, with the number of civilian deaths increasing sharply, hunger on the rise and three quarters of the population in urgent need of humanitarian support, Oxfam warned today. The Ukraine crisis has exacerbated the situation, raising concerns over supplies … Read more
On International Women’s Day, Oxfam Canada’s sixth annual Feminist Scorecard, Closing the Gaps Towards a Feminist Green COVID-19 Recovery, grades the federal government’s actions to help Canada and the world respond and recover from the pandemic, focusing on actions between March 2021 until February 2022 in 10 policy areas. “While COVID-19 ran its course for a … Read more
