Behind the Brands: Food companies do care what consumers think
When customers speak, businesses listen. It’s an old adage in business that Oxfam and its supporters…
Turning the way food companies do business upside down
It’s not only Diana Ross who is left singing “upside down you’re turning me…” In the…
When I touch the sensitive subject of security, all I see is discomfort and eyes wandering…
“This resolution should not have been necessary”, UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon told the 15…
South Sudan: World’s youngest nation in crisis
by Farah Karimi Welcome to the youngest nation in the world, South Sudan. A place burdened…
South Sudan: Signs of hope amongst the violence
“Even if peace would come, we cannot return home. We are not safe.” These words, spoken…
Toward an international movement to tackle inequality
by Winnie Byanyima International agreement on the need to take action against rising and damaging economic…
Division is plunging Central African Republic into food crisis
by Steve Cockburn Moussa – not his real name – stood with his last pile of…
10 reasons to commit to agriculture and smallholder farmers in Africa
by Eric Hazard Over 810,000 people are in need of immediate food aid in northern Mali…
by Shaheen Chughtai, Oxfam Great Britain Nestling between picturesque snow-capped mountains and the shimmering waters of…
8 inspiring selfies from the Philippines
by Anna Kramer, Oxfam America Oxfam invited typhoon survivors to share their self-portraits. The results aren’t…
The art of saying “Thank you”
by Jane Beesley We might feel aggrieved when we’ve gone out of our way to do…
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REACTION: Budget 2026 helps at the margins but bets big on business – Oxfam Canada
Yesterday, Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne tabled the second budget of Mark Carney’s government. Against a backdrop of a relentless affordability crisis in Canada and growing global instability, Budget 2026 takes real steps to support people through expanded income supports, new investments in housing and homelessness, and $32 billion over 10 years for First Nations housing…
Every 20 minutes, Canada’s private jets emit more carbon pollution than the average Canadian does in a year
New Oxfam report lands days before the November 5 federal budget, a year after Ottawa ended the luxury tax on private planes. In 2025, 71,239 private jet flights left Canada, emitting more than 333,000 tonnes of CO2. In 11 minutes, those jets emitted more CO2 than someone in the poorest half of Canada’s population emits…
REACTION: Israeli large-scale military operation and mass displacement in Hebron
Responding to the large-scale Israeli military operation and mass displacement in Hebron in recent days, Oxfam’s Response Lead in the West Bank, Mustafa Tamaizeh, said: “This is not only a humanitarian crisis but a deliberate assault on the economic foundations of Palestinian life, as families lose their homes and livelihoods. The destruction of factories, workshops,…
Humanitarian funding to El Niño critically insufficient, says Oxfam
Global funding for the preparation and response to El Niño and the harms it will bring to millions of people is critically insufficient, Oxfam warned today. The weather phenomenon is already having a catastrophic impact across much of the world, with wildfires, crop failures and growing severe food and water insecurity. El Niño’s intensity is…