Laurie Langhorne
Volunteers are active in Oxfam's campaigns, organizing fundraising and raising awareness in their communities. Here are…
Emma Langley
Volunteers are active in Oxfam's campaigns, organizing fundraising and raising awareness in their communities. Here…
Dana Lipnicki
Volunteers are active in Oxfam's campaigns, organizing fundraising and raising awareness in their communities. Here…
Helping Syrian refugees with disabilities in Jordan’s camp Za’atari
April 2013 – Adapting to life in Jordan’s sprawling desert refugee camp, Za’atari, is hard…
The World Bank and land grabs
by Hannah Stoddart At the beginning of its Land and Poverty Conference this week, the World Bank…
Syrian refugee influx adding to Jordan’s water worries
A short distance from Zaatari, a sprawling camp for Syrian refugees, lies a road full…
Manny’s story: “It’s like they have killed us already”
In the once tranquil Casiguran municipality of the Philippines, a powerful local political dynasty has…
Broken promises: rural women hit hardest by corporate land deals
Small-scale women farmers are the backbone of Africa’s food system, but, as corporations buy up huge…
Muslimah amazed and proud: A success story
Muslimah learned how to manage land, plant, raise seedlings, and make compost at a three-month field…
So many changes: a success story
The coffee ceremony in Ethiopia is a long ritual in which beans are gently washed, slowly…
Forests and fires: a success story
Wildfires have long been a major problem in Ethiopia. Hunters use fire in forests to flush…
Oxfam’s role model for girls at Zaatari camp
by Caroline Gluck Amid a sea of male construction and site workers in Jordan’s sprawling…
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Oxfam responds to mass forced displacement in Lebanon and ready to respond to wider regional crisis
Oxfam and partners are responding to the immediate needs of people who have been forcibly displaced by Israel’s bombardment and ground invasion of Lebanon, as the conflict across the region enters a dramatically new and dangerous phase. Oxfam in Lebanon is scaling up its emergency response by supporting thousands of people across shelters in Mount…
Millions of people across Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia facing drought crisis, as cost of water increases by 2000% in worst hit areas – Oxfam
Failed October–December rains have pushed nearly 26 million people into extreme hunger in East Africa. 58 million people do not have access to clean drinking water. Millions of livestock are at risk as drought devastate grazing lands and water sources, threatening pastoralist livelihoods. Failure of the last rainy season across Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia is…
Statement by the Regional Directors of the INGOs in the Middle East Region
We, the Regional Directors of 14 INGOs, express our profound concern at the accelerating military escalation across the Middle East and the wider region. What we are witnessing is a dangerous expansion of violence with devastating consequences for civilians. There must be an immediate end to this spiral of military violence, to the use of…
REACTION: Israeli High Court grants urgent request from 19 humanitarian organisations providing aid into Gaza
The Israeli High Court has ruled in favour of an urgent request from 19 humanitarian organisations, including Oxfam, for an interim order which would prevent the cessation of all activities until a final ruling is reached. In response, Oxfam’s Policy Lead, Bushra Khalidi, said: “We are grateful that our request for an interim order has been…