Oxfam Canada Blogs
May 11 2012
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Oxfam Canada
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General
.jpg "Now instead of asking for cash from our spouses, mothers can raise their own funds. We don’t have to go petting our husbands and begging. With this we can be self reliant. Rumbidzai Machinbira in Masvingo Province, Zimbabwe. Image: Annie Bungeroth/Oxfam")
“I don’t have a goat,” Mom hinted. That made my mind up for a Mother’s Day gift. Then I started looking through Oxfam’s archives from the last few years to find mothers who had received a goat or benefitted from an Oxfam program paid through Unwrapped funds. I hope you enjoy my favourites.
May 09 2012
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Oxfam Canada
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General
Oxfam Canada believes that our food system is broken, and that in order to fix it, we must have the largest conversation in the history of the planet about food. That’s why this spring we hosted public dialogues on women’s rights and the food system. People want to talk about food, and we want to talk with them.
May 09 2012
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Oxfam Canada
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General
This year for Mother's Day, think globally, and give your mom a gift that crosses boundaries and makes a lasting impact on the lives of people around our planet. Visit OxfamUnwrapped.ca for all the details.
May 07 2012
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Oxfam Canada
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General
An alarming number of women and girls around the world experience sexual violence. From Congo and Kenya to Burma and Colombia, rape is used as a weapon to humiliate people and tear apart communities.
The International Campaign to Stop Rape & Gender Violence in Conflict unites us together into a coordinated civil society effort for change.
Take the Pledge to stop rape and gender violence in conflict.
May 03 2012
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Oxfam Canada
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General
Wednesday, April 25 was World Malaria Day, and there is news about a disease that afflicts 225 million people and killed about 650,000 in 2010.
First the good tidings: In the last decade, deaths from malaria have been cut by one third in Africa and the number of at-risk people contracting the disease globally has fallen by 17 per cent.
The worrying news is rumours of an about-face in Canadian policy that would divert millions in scarce aid money to a risky experiment, while proven strategies go unfunded.
Apr 16 2012
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Oxfam Canada
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GROW
Rachel is the new tour coordinator for Oxfam on Tour with Coldplay. She is blogging her journey through Canada, US and Europe, discussing all the wonderful things that come with a Coldplay tour and joining up with hundreds of campaigners and fans to talk about the injustices in the food system and how they affect millions around the world, as well as the food we all love.
Apr 12 2012
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Oxfam Canada
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Conflict & Emergencies
Since the first warnings of drought and poor harvests in Africa’s Sahel region in late 2011, communities in many areas have been threatened by a looming food crisis
Apr 05 2012
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Oxfam Canada
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GROW
The last year’s events have demonstrated the immense power that grassroots organizing, social media, and collective power can have in creating change. We’ve seen revolutions and protests, campaigns and online actions, resonating with greater impact than ever before. Women, and women’s rights organizations, have remained an essential part of the momentum of these movements and activities.
Mar 26 2012
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Oxfam Canada
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General
Oxfam ambassador Helena Christensen, a supermodel and photographer, recently returned from her third trip with Oxfam, this one to document the toll that climate change has had on the women of rural Turkana in northern Kenya.
Read an excerpt from the article from Hello!Canada.
Mar 12 2012
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Oxfam Canada
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General
Oxfam Canada policy coordinator Mark Fried blogs on the successful campaign to get the International Monetary Fund to invest more than $1 billion of windfall profits in small-scale farming, education, health care and other needs of the world’s poorest countries. Nearly $1.6 billion in gold windfall is still up for grabs, so we cannot rest easy, he writes. “But here is a victory to be celebrated.”
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