Oxfam in Asia

🌸 Feminist leaders share powerful reflections on care work and its impact on our world. From imagining a society without care to envisioning a future where women's work is truly valued, their responses shed light on why we must recognize, respect, and support the essential labor that sustains us all. #TimeToCare Oxfam Canada International Domestic Workers Federation Institute for What Works to Advance Gender Equality Sona Mitra Rebecca Boyce

Care work shapes our lives every day. #Carework is a critical social good, without which our societies and economies would come to grinding halt. It keeps households, workplaces, individuals, families and communities fed and clean, healthy and nurtured. This year, let’s hear from feminists in Asia on why it is #timetocare

BREAKING: Fifty (read again, just #50) of the world’s richest billionaires produce more carbon pollution in 90 minutes than the average person does in their entire lifetime. Oxfam’s new report exposes the luxury-driven lifestyles of the super-rich as a key driver of the climate crisis. This isn’t just about lavish living—it’s about the future of our planet. #MakeRichPollutersPay. Download the Report Carbon Inequality Kills https://lnkd.in/gMSwP7Ts Myrah Butt Mustafa Talpur Sunil Acharya Sara Khan Lorenzo Urbinati Enamul Mazid K. Jermaine Bayas Himanshi M. Adam Musgrave John Samuel Rapatsa Trirath

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🎥 Hear from Myrah Butt, our Gender Justice Policy & Advocacy Manager, as she unpacks the significance of the newly adopted ASEAN Declaration on Strengthening the Care Economy! 🌏💪 This groundbreaking declaration marks a pivotal step toward recognizing, reducing, and redistributing unpaid care work, which mostly falls on women and girls. Watch to learn how this could reshape the future of care and gender equality in the region. The ASEAN Secretariat

Exciting updates from Oxfam on digital rights! On 23 Sept, the UN adopted the Global Digital Compact (GDC), a major step toward comprehensive digital cooperation and AI governance. Oxfam’s response applauds its focus on rights and governance, but also points out areas for improvement, like ensuring digital equity and protecting civic space. On 26 Sept, Oxfam Asia co-hosted a session at the #UNRBHR Forum in Bangkok with Wikimedia Foundation, World Benchmarking Alliance, and AICHR Malaysia to explore how the GDC impacts ASEAN, tech accountability, and human rights due diligence. We also launched our new paper, "Rights and Responsibilities," which dives into the tech industry’s role in exacerbating or addressing inequality, focusing on five pillars: access, civic space, data privacy, automation, and governance reforms. Read the paper for more detail: https://lnkd.in/dCZaVaDe Lorenzo Urbinati #DigitalRights #TechForGood #GDC #AI #HumanRights #Inequality #ASEAN

At the ASEAN Business Forum, Oxfam in Asia's Regional Director, John Samuel calls for a bold shift toward inclusivity and women’s empowerment in Laos’s business landscape. Discover how MSMEs and the gig economy play a crucial role in shaping a more equitable future for all. 🌍💼 #InclusiveGrowth #WomenEmpowerment #ASEANBusinessForum 🔗 Read more here: https://lnkd.in/dnJfF826

Scrolling through the grid of our Office in Jerusalem, it’s hard to ignore the impact of October 7. Their lives have changed, and we miss their smiles and laughter. We call for an immediate ceasefire. In solidarity with the people of Palestine. #CeasfireNow Oxfam in Jerusalem Oxfam International Oxfam

Oxfam in Asia proudly supported the third in-person meeting of the Asia Feminist Coalition in Bangkok, where over 24 feminist organizations gathered to discuss collective action on pressing feminist issues in the region. Together, this coalition aims to emerge as a unified voice on critical topics such as climate change, care work, and gender-responsive budgeting. By standing together, we can drive meaningful change and amplify our impact! 💪✨ #AsiaFeministCoalition #Feminism #CollectiveAction #OxfamAsia

What does the future hold for care advocacy? We recently hosted a showcasing event to celebrate our collective successes and identify key priority areas moving forward. Our exciting panel featured leaders in care work across Asia: Cecilia Tinonin from UN Women talked about the recent data snapshot from UN Women and how it can inform decision making on care. Channe Lindstrom Oghuzan from United Nations ESCAP talked about their recent model framework on care as a guiding tool for states to design care responsive policies. Sona Mitra from Institute for What Works to Advance Gender Equality talked about the importance of locally rooted think tanks and their contributions to the discourse on care. Amuda Mishra from the Asia Feminist Coalition highlighted the need for voices of feminist actors to be centred in the conversation on care. While we have made strides in Asia regionally and national on transformative care policies, a lot needs to be done to increase investments in date on care, and care-responsive infrastructure and services. We need collectively to drive such investments which would lead to tangible changes in the lives of caregivers. Together, let’s drive these vital investments and make a tangible difference in the lives of those who care! 💪💙 #CareAdvocacy #FutureOfCare #OxfamAsia #CollectiveImpact