Oxfam in the Pacific

In response to the earthquakes in Vanuatu, Oxfam is closely monitoring the situation and trying to set up contact with our teams and partners on the ground to properly assess how best we can support. We will work according to guidance provided by government authorities to determine the kind of support needed by affected communities.

We need to reconfigure the state and the systems of profit at its centre to ensure that social provisioning, care and wellbeing are placed at the heart of state, economies, and society 💚 #OxfamAtAWID #16Days #UniteForChange

As vital as care work is, it is often under-rewarded with poor pay and poor working conditions. We need to change that and value care for the lifesaving work that it is 💚 #OxfamAtAWID #16Days #UniteForChange

It’s not the job or duty of a mom, a sister, or the women, girls and gender non-binary people in your life to cook, clothe, feed and perform other household and communal care tasks. We all benefit from care work so we all can share the work equally for a fairer future for all 💚 #OxfamAtAWID #16days

Care work is vital and necessary - we need more of it to be properly paid and of better quality. Reducing poorly paid and unpaid care work means increasing well paid, high quality care work, and everyone benefits from that 💚 #OxfamAtAWID #16days

To create an economy centered around care and wellbeing, we need to ensure that women, girls and care workers are represented in policy and decision-making spaces at every level. #OxfamAtAWID #16days

Unpaid care work, often done by women and girls, is rarely recognized as real work. And yet it keeps us clothed, clean, healthy and fed. We need an economy that recognizes care work as real work with real value 💚 #OxfamAtAWID #16days

We are at the 15th AWID International Forum - one of the largest gatherings of feminists from around the world. Here’s why we’re here 💚

The super-rich are dining out on the planet, producing more carbon pollution in 90 minutes than the average person does in a lifetime. With their private jets, superyachts, and polluting investments, the super-rich are fuelling the climate crisis at a rate that is almost unimaginable. The rest of us are paying the price.   Hilda Nakabuye, Marinel Ubaldo, Pavel Martiarena and Cynthia Houniuhi remind us why we must call for these rich polluters to be held accountable!   It's time to #MakeRichPollutersPay to help tackle the climate crisis and build a fairer future.   Demand climate justice. 

Pacific Climate Activist, Cynthia Houniuhi, shares her story as a Solomon Islander and her experiences with climate change. It's a story that has guided her activism and led her to this campaign calling for accountability from the richest polluters for the climate crisis that people in the Pacific and around the world are now paying for. https://lnkd.in/geerB4Uq