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Six Women Creating Spaces for Gender Justice in Asia
  • Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
  • Violence Against Women and Girls
  • Women's Transformative Leadership

Through the Creating Spaces project, these women champion female leadership to advance gender justice.

by Asma Siyala and Farwah Qasim | March 8, 2022

A group of Brown women wearing colourful saris are sitting down on the floor and raising their hands.

"Let me be the last survivor": Lessons from six years of action to end violence against women and girls in Asia
  • Feminist Aid
  • Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
  • Violence Against Women and Girls
  • Women's Transformative Leadership

How communities in east and south Asia tackled gender-based violence and changed laws and social norms to protect women and girls.

by Megan Lowthers | December 6, 2021

Three girls dressed formally hold two red dark pink banners with white text that reads, hashtag End child marriage and hashtag girl defenders. All the girls are smiling and looking directly at the camera. The one standing in the middle wears a red headscarf.

Committed to Care at the Generation Equality Forum
  • Feminist Aid
  • Women's Transformative Leadership
  • Women’s Economic Justice

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…

by Amar Nijhawan, Amber Parks & Julie Thekkudan | July 20, 2021

A multi-storey street art painting on the side of a building in an urban environment depicts a woman and child, both with brown skin. In the foreground, there are four sets of wrinkled hands of varying skin tones palms facing us with leaves and butterflies in the background.

Leaving a Legacy: Peggy Killeen's Story

Women's Transformative Leadership

Peggy Killeen realized that leaving a gift in her own will would be a powerful way to make a difference through Oxfam Canada's work to fight inequality and beat poverty.

by Oxfam Canada | April 1, 2020

An image of a woman with shoulder length curly hair smiling and looking at the camera

Creating a model for girls' education in Ghana
  • Feminist Aid
  • Women's Transformative Leadership

Schools tailored to girls’ needs in northern Ghana are removing barriers and motivating them to pursue higher education.

by Divya Amladi | August 15, 2019

A teacher in Northern Ghana stands in front of a classroom of girls who all have their hands up.

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.

by Paula Baker | June 29, 2018

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

Why economic inequality is a feminist issue
  • Advocacy in Canada
  • Women's Transformative Leadership

Written by Winnie Byanyima⁩, Executive Director, Oxfam International. These are restless, exciting, and frightening times to be a woman. Every day brings with it a rousing success or a crushing…

by Oxfam Canada | June 6, 2018

Christine Lagardem, Managing Director and Chairwoman of the International Monetary Fund, and Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director, Oxfam International at the G7 Finance and Development meeting in Whistler, June 2017. Photo Credit: Diana Sarosi.

Meet Gloria, one of Oxfam’s Humanitarian Superwomen

Women's Transformative Leadership

It can be particularly challenging as a young woman leading men in many African societies. As a native Tanzanian and Swahili speaker, Gloria is up to the task. “It’s important…

by Oxfam | June 3, 2018

Gloria, a young woman standing with a green Oxfam short in a rural village

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