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Plaque commemorating first meeting of Oxfam in the Old Library, the University Church, Oxford Founded at 17 Broad Street, Oxford, as the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief by a group of Quakers, social activists, and Oxford academics in 1942 and registered in accordance with UK law in 1943, the original committee was a group of concerned citizens, including Henry Gillett (a prominent local ...
He also focused on job creation, and he promised to work to revoke the country's new drug patent law (Toronto Star, 22 October 1993). At one all-candidates meeting, Thomas defended Canada's immigration levels against calls from a Reform Party candidate that they be cut in half (Toronto Star, 19 October 1993). He received 2,771 votes (7.07% ...
In 2003 she was appointed as the president of the Toronto Community Foundation. [17] In 2009 she became the executive director of Habitat for Humanity (Halton). She went on to become the director of community development. She also helped lead the creation of the Halton Poverty Roundtable and was a member of Halton Region's Housing Advisory ...
Oxfam Trailwalker (Hong Kong) logo. End point of 2011 HK Trailwalker 2011. Trailwalker and the related Trailtrekker are fundraising endurance events conducted across the world by Oxfam, in which teams of four competitors must complete a course of 100 kilometres (62 mi) in a set time limit - typically between 24 and 48 hours. The routes may be ...
Oxfam staged a protest with people wearing giant papier mache heads of the G8 leaders. Oxfam's goal was to put the issue of extreme poverty on the summit agenda, but a spokesman described the Huntsville protests as something akin to "benign nuisance." [59] Not all demonstrations originated from outside the local community.
As a young child Begum had a rare and debilitating medical condition that led to the surgical removal of her left eye. In an episode of the BBC World Service series Emotional Baggage, dedicated to her life and experiences of migration, Begum recounted to host Professor Henrietta Bowden-Jones how the NHS initially refused to offer her parents access to treatment for their child, despite the ...
After the 2010 Toronto summit the G20 issued a statement saying that "narrowing the development gap and reducing poverty are integral" to their broader goals. [2] Shortly after it was announced the next summit would be in Seoul, civil society actors including Oxfam began advocating for what they called a "Seoul Development Consensus". [3]
Workopolis was a Canadian website specializing in online job searching. Headquartered in Toronto, Workopolis had offices in eight Canadian cities including Montreal, Ottawa, Calgary and Vancouver and provided its services in both English and French. It was acquired by Indeed.com in June 2018 and subsequently shut down as an independent job ...