Johanna Duran Gomez, director of Fundación Mujer y Futuro, at the Sex Truck, a mobile clinic focused on reproductive health services and women’s rights in Bucaramanga, Colombia.


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Demanding equality
When all women get fair living wages, decent working conditions, and their voices heard, everyone benefits. Oxfam supports women stepping into leadership roles, speaking out against harmful laws and policies, and standing up for their rights.
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Leading emergency response
Emergency can affect women and men in dramatically different ways. Like in refugee camps, where girls and women need lighting at night and separate toilets to stay safe, secure and healthy. Standing up for women's rights is vital for keeping everyone safe.
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Building sustainable businesses
Loans, seeds, tools and training for women help whole communities grow more food and make goods that they can market themselves, and break free from poverty.
Fight for women’s rights
"My wish is for existing NGOs to understand us. Not only do they know about who has disabilities, but also the relation between disabilities and planning. It's crucial. Because upon a disaster, the number of the disabled increases." Desi in Indonesia.
My wish is for existing NGOs to understand us. Not only do they know about who has disabilities, but also the relation between disabilities and planning. It's crucial. Because upon a disaster, the number of the disabled increases.”
Desi, Vice President of the PBR Forum in Indonesia
Oxfam acknowledges the support of the Australian Government through the Australian NGO Cooperation Program (ANCP).
The power of women worldwide who are leading the change
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We are trying to protect the area from calamity.”
Rowena in the Phillippines whose community’s all-women disaster committee are restoring the forest to prevent the devastation caused by typhoons.

"I am deeply committed to my work, recognising that the true essence of civil society organisations is manifested during times of war and emergencies, not just during periods of calm." Fidaa Shurrab - Atfaluna for Deaf Society (Rafah, Gaza)
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The glue that holds societies and economies together
“The narrative during the pandemic may have been an economic shutdown – yet the reality was women doing huge amounts of extra unpaid care at home, working overtime as teachers, cooks and nurses.”
Anam Parvez, Head of Research, Oxfam GB. Writing on economic policies as a form of gender-based violence.
Solidarity with all women
Valuing Women’s Work Charity Gifts
Together, we join in solidarity with women around the world to ensure their contributions are recognised and fairly rewarded. Oxfam's Valuing Women Work programmes support women to push for respect, fairness and dignity at work, and to end gender-based violence in the workplace.
Every International Women's Day, we choose to celebrate the power of all women everywhere
Women's rights
72% of unpaid care work in households globally is done by women.
Around the world, 1 billion women lack legal protection from sexual violence.
In 2021-22, Oxfam’s WE-Care programme reached 7.9 million people across Africa.