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Laveza Khan
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External Affairs Specialist at Oxfam Canada
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According to a new new Oxfam report released today at WEF in #Davos, billionaire wealth jumped by over 16 per cent in 2025, three times faster than the past five-year average, to $25.4 trillion — its highest level in history.

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Billionaire wealth globally jumped to highest peak ever in 2025, sparking -
Billionaires are 4,000 times more likely to hold political office than ordinary people Billionaire wealth jumped by over 16 per cent in 2025, three times faster than the past five-year average, to
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January 19, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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PRESS RELEASE: Despite months of severely restricted aid inflows, power disruptions, access shutdowns and repeated rejection of essential materials, Oxfam and its partners have restored vital wells for over 156,000 people.

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January 14, 2026 at 1:52 PM
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New year, Same Priorities 🤷‍♀️

#humanrights #oxfam #inequality #newyear #viral
January 5, 2026 at 4:55 PM
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🚨 “There remains appalling and preventable levels of hunger in Gaza.”

Our reaction to the latest report from @theipcinfo.bsky.social, the global Integrated Food Security Classification.

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Oxfam Reaction to IPC Report on Gaza - Oxfam Canada
Responding to today’s Integrated Food Security Classification (IPC) report, Oxfam’s Marta Valdes García, Humanitarian Director, said:  “There remains appalling and preventable levels of hunger in Gaza
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December 19, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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REACTION: Storm Byron causing widespread flooding across #Gaza

Read our full reaction here: www.oxfam.ca/news/reactio...
December 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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🤝 Oxfam joins over 250 organizations and individuals from across Canada to call on Prime Minister Mark Carney to take urgent and decisive action to safeguard Canada’s feminist foreign policy commitments.

READ THE OPEN LETTER HERE: www.oxfam.ca/news/open-le...
Open Letter on Canada's Feminist Foreign Policy - Oxfam Canada
by | Background media: Replace this with image description Replace this with image credit information Dear Prime Minister Carney, We are writing to express our concern over recent statements and devel...
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December 4, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Oxfam Canada joined MPs and PSSAR urging the govt to speed up visas for Palestinian students. Our colleague Meera, accepted to U of Regina with a scholarship, still can’t reach Canada due to stalled permits + impossible biometrics. Canada must act now.

Full presser: www.cpac.ca/headline-pol...
MPs Urge Federal Govt to Speed Up Palestinian Student Visas – November 25, 2025
At a news conference on Parliament Hill, Liberal MP Salma Zahid, NDP MP Heather McPherson, and representatives of several advocacy groups call on the federal government to act with urgency in processi...
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November 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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PRESS RELEASE: Child care advocates from across Canada are gathering in Ottawa this week for the second Child Care for All Summit.

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Child Care for All Summit Calls for Universal and Inclusive Child Care as -
Ottawa, ON – November 24, 2025 – At a critical moment for Canada’s early learning and child care program, feminist and community leaders from across Canada are gathering in Ottawa this week for the s
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November 24, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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🌎 🔥 It's exhausting watching the same story play out again and again. The rich are getting richer. The planet is getting hotter, and those who've done the least to cause the climate mess are left to suffer its worst consequences.

Article on our website.

#COP30 #ClimateCrisis #MakeRichPollutersPay
The Climate Crisis is Being Fueled by Inequality, and the Rich are Burning Through Our Future
Let’s be honest – it’s exhausting watching the same story play out again and again. The rich are getting richer. The planet is getting hotter, and those who’ve done the least to cause the climate mess...
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November 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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"On the whole, the much-anticipated budget falls short of the scale of investment needed in social infrastructure to ensure that all people across Canada can meet their most basic needs."

🔗 Read our full reaction to Canada's Budget 2025: www.oxfam.ca/news/oxfam-c...
November 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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"Peace is more lasting when women help shape it. Canada must include women and civil society in all peacebuilding efforts, esp. in Palestine and urgently appoint an Ambassador for Women, Peace, and Security", says Lauren Ravon.

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Beyond Rhetoric - Feminist Leadership for a Transformative Women, Peace and
by | WARNING: Background Image Alt Description is missing!! Photo Credit: Oxfam Twenty-five years after the United Nations adopted Resolution 1325, the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda is
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October 16, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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New Report 📢

25 years after Women, Peace & Security pledge, govts have spent billions on arms but just 0.1% of aid reaches women’s rights groups.

Feminist peace hasn’t failed, it’s been betrayed.
#HandsOffOurSpaces

Read more here: www.oxfam.ca/news/25-year...
October 16, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Oxfam mourns our partner colleague Tasneem (27), killed with her 2 young children in an Israeli airstrike in #Gaza. Partner clinics providing life-saving care have also been destroyed. Aid workers must never be targets.

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September 25, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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www.thewhig.com/opinion/fami...

“To deny the facts of the famine declaration or minimize their severity is not just misleading; it is dangerous and puts millions of lives at risk,” Miranda Gallo of Islamic Relief Canada said of attempts to minimize the food insecurity crisis in Gaza.
Famine worsens in Gaza
On 22 August, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification Famine Review Committee confirmed that famine is now occurring in Gaza
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September 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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‼️Over 70 prominent Canadians say “Not In My Name” in Oxfam Canada’s latest campaign to demand that the Canadian government end its complicity in Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people.

Read our press release: www.oxfam.ca/news/not-in-...

🔗 notinmyname.oxfam.ca
Not In My Name: Canada—Stop Arming Israel
Add your voice. Demand Canada halt arms exports, ensure aid to Gaza, and uphold international law. Sign the petition and rush aid today.
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September 16, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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"While the challenges in front of us are incredible, with the necessary energy and ambition there is plenty of positive change to be advanced."

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Oxfam Canada highlights top priorities as Parliament begins Fall sitting -
As MPs and Senators return to Ottawa to begin the Fall sitting of Parliament, Oxfam Canada recognizes the complex challenges the federal government faces. These include geopolitical and trade tensions
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September 15, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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“We have children dying from malnutrition and dehydration — not because food isn’t available, but it is being denied access into Gaza,” @lavezakhan.bsky.social of @oxfamcanada.bsky.social told @whigstandard.bsky.social.

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Worst-case famine scenario unfolds in Gaza
“What we’re watching in Gaza is everyone wasting away. And we are clearly at a tipping point now."
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August 1, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Oxfam Canada and Oxfam-Québec are dismayed by Canada’s inaction in the face of the deliberate starvation of the Gaza Strip. 

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Gaza: Canada, it is high time to act now - Oxfam Canada
Oxfam-Québec and Oxfam Canada are dismayed by Canada's inaction in the face of the deliberate starvation of the Gaza Strip.    “Tweets don't feed anyone, and statements won't open a
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July 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM
“Each day we wait for a ceasefire, more lives are lost through violence, hunger and disease. Palestinians in Gaza cannot wait a day longer for this hell to end.”
🚨BREAKING: Disease is ripping through Gaza as Israel continues to deliberately block aid. Oxfam reports a nearly 150% surge in preventable water-borne illnesses over the past three months.

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#LetAidIn #CeasefireNow
July 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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As world leaders arrive for the #G7Summit in Kananaskis, Alberta, Oxfam is here to sound the alarm on the biggest aid cut in G7 history, a 28% drop that risks lives and undermines global stability.
 
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June 15, 2025 at 6:38 PM
“Imagine trying to move with four children or an elderly parent in the middle of the night, with no transport and nowhere to go. People are so exhausted, many would rather face death than flee again.” - Fidaa Alaraj – Oxfam’s Gender Advisor in Gaza-

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600 days into war, Israel’s mass displacement campaign is entirely - O
Since breaking the ceasefire, Israel issued nearly one displacement order every two days, strangling people into isolated areas covering less than 20 percent of the Gaza Strip Israel has used mass
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May 29, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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📽️ WATCH: This map visualizes #Gaza’s systematic erasure.

Since breaking the ceasefire, Israel issued nearly one displacement order every two days, strangling people into isolated areas covering less than 20 percent of the Gaza Strip.

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May 29, 2025 at 12:16 PM