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Making “Cuba’s Hour” Count for Cubans

August 14, 2015
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Making “Cuba’s Hour” Count for Cubans  by Marianela Gonzalez, communications officer for Oxfam in Cuba. Since December 17th,…

Six big things for election debates

August 6, 2015
Oxfam Volunteers, as part of the Up for Debate initiative during the 2015 federal election, created their own awareness campaign to encourage a political debate centered around women's issues.

Written by Kelly Bowden, National Campaign Manager If you ask political parties or the media, this…

War, peace and women’s long journey for justice in Somalia

August 5, 2015
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Somalia hasn’t been in the news much in the past couple of years – which is…

Hard choices in South Sudan: food or clean water?

July 24, 2015
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An end to the fighting would go a long way toward solving the challenges so many…

Happy Eid – from Yemen

July 16, 2015
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Eid is upon us. But it doesn’t feel like Eid. Fighting in Yemen has not ceased…

Oxfam’s view on what’s at stake in Addis

July 7, 2015
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The world’s most powerful political leaders will be quietly absent from the UN Financing for Development…

Gaza’s youth using art to overcome the scars of war

July 7, 2015
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Last summer, 16 year old Eba'a Hamouda watched terrified as the bombs fell all around her…

Yemen: Women get on their bikes for their rights

July 6, 2015
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Amidst bombings and shortages in fuel, food and vital supplies, a group of Yemeni women came…

Teachers and Tampons: why taxes matter for women

June 23, 2015
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Today is World Public Service Day. Around the world, governments and citizens are marking the contribution…

In Focus: Syria, World Refugee Day

June 20, 2015
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Written by: Adeline Guerra, Regional Campaigns and Communications adviser Children hide behind water tanks while clothes…

Forced from home – Eliza’s journey to safety in South Sudan

June 20, 2015
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Written by: Stella Madete, Oxfam Novib (Netherlands), Information Officer, Somalia Eliza is a chef and mother…

Nepal earthquake was ‘single most frightening experience of my life’

May 19, 2015
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By Lisa Rutherford (press office, Oxfam Great Britain) The 7.9 magnitude earthquake on 25th April left the…

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New wealth of top 1% surges by over $33.9 trillion since 2015 – enough to end poverty 22 times over, as Oxfam warns global development “abysmally off track” ahead of crunch talks

June 26, 2025

Oxfam Condemns “Private Finance Takeover” as Global Wealth Concentration Reaches Historic Levels Oxfam condemns “private finance takeover” of development efforts, as over 3.7 billion people remain in poverty ten years after the Sustainable Development Goals were agreed. New Oxfam analysis unveils “astronomical rise in private wealth”. Between 1995 and 2023, global private wealth grew by…

Global survey finds 8 out of 10 people support taxing oil and gas corporations to pay for climate damages

June 19, 2025

Ottawa, 19 June – A majority of people believe governments must tax oil, gas and coal corporations for climate-related loss and damage, and that their government is not doing enough to counter the influence on politics of the super-rich and polluting industries. These are the key findings of a global survey, which reflects broad consensus…

Oxfam Reaction to the 2025 G7 Summit

June 17, 2025

Oxfam is deeply concerned by the outcomes of the G7 Summit in Kananaskis. At a time when urgent global crises demand bold and united action, the summit fell short of delivering the leadership the world needs. Oxfam said that nowhere was this more apparent than in how this G7 totally missed its chance to exert…

Biggest-ever aid cut by G7 members a death sentence for millions of people, says Oxfam

June 10, 2025

Aid cuts could cost millions of lives and leave girls, boys, women and men without access to enough food, water, education, health treatment G7 countries are making deliberate and deadly choices by cutting life-saving aid, enabling atrocities, and reneging on their international commitments Low and middle-income countries face reduced aid, rising debt, and trade barriers…

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