end violence against women and girls

Over 1 million women in Burkina Faso caught between conflict and COVID-19

24 May 2020

More than a million women and girls in Burkina Faso are facing increased sexual violence, hunger and water shortage as a result of the coronavirus pandemic on top of the existing conflict, said Oxfam today.
Sexual harassment on public transport? “It’s not my business to intervene” say urban commuters in Sri Lanka

22 July 2019

New research from Oxfam finds that sexual harassment of women, girls and gender non-conforming people on public transport is tolerated by urban Sri Lankan commuters who consider it normal male behaviour, an everyday occurrence and the fault of women for not being submissive, obedient or dressing decently.
‘Let’s stop thinking it is normal’

25 November 2018

This collated research report is based on formative research from 12 countries across Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean and the Pacific. The report identifies dominant and common patterns in the social norms that perpetuate violence against women and girls.
Young people in Latin America still think violence against women is “normal”: Oxfam

25 July 2018

Oxfam has revealed in a report published today that male violence against women remains very much a part of life for young Latin Americans, who still consider it “normal.”