What Oxfam is Doing
Addressing Gender Discrimination
Oxfam helps women:
- Campaign for legal reform in countries with laws that disadvantage women.
- Acquire functional literacy skills so they can work.
- Raise the income of some of the world’s poorest families through community finance programs targeted at women.
- Strengthen their voice in their communities, so they can become leaders and spokespeople.
- Build peace in areas struggling with conflict.
- Understand their human rights, so they will not accept violence as their due.
In all of these endeavors, Oxfam not only equips women to contribute more to their communities, but also helps shape societies that welcome their contributions.
Feature Stories
Pulling Their Own Purse Strings
While Oxfam invests tremendous energy in skill building, advocacy, and other endeavors to help lift people out of poverty, often what is most needed is income, which our innovative savings-led microfinance program—geared largely towards women—seeks to address.
Waging Peace in West Africa
The West Africa Network of Peacebuilding is training women to mediate peace in a region struggling with conflict.
Policing Gender Violence in El Salvador
A full 98 percent of female Salvadoran police officers report having been victims of on-the-job harassment. CEMUJER is fostering respect among the ranks—and a safer society for women.
