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The world is facing a powerful convergence of crises. Conflict, COVID-19 and climate change are all contributing…
A combination of factors is spreading suffering across the region. Oxfam is working with partners to alleviate…
Nearly 90 percent of the country faces severe water shortages leaving 3.5 million people in extreme hunger…
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As I leaned over, I felt a tug on my headscarf, which led me to believe that…
“I’ve experienced going to bed without eating anything and it’s really painful.” 33-year-old Rasmiya sits on the…
Months after marking four years of devastating war, South Sudan has reached another critical point: more South…
Lucinda, Jine, Chipililo, Hendrina, Alice, and Sekechina pass the mechanical parts of the borehole back, hand to…
Right now, millions of families around the world are facing severe food shortages, fleeing their homes in…
For the first time in more than a decade, the United Nations reported a sharp increase in…
Partners and community define our humanitarian work. Her excitement was contagious. Renata Dia stood at the base…
Yemen’s human-made catastrophe is forcing people to make stark live or die choices. Yemenis, already on the…
When Sylvie’s husband died of disease in Buporo refugee camp, it was not only heartbreaking for this…
What do words like “food insecurity” and “famine” actually mean? Our graphic below explains. And when it…
This fund will support Canadian and international organizations currently hard at work helping those in need in…
Written by María José Agejas, journalist in the Communication Department of Oxfam Intermón. Jean Robert looks around,…
Ethiopia is experiencing its worst drought in 50 years. The El Niño weather system, exacerbated by climate…
While President Obama's visit has put Havana in the spotlight, more remote communities are preparing for earthquakes…
I’m very lucky to work for Oxfam Canada. Sometimes I travel to remarkable places and meet extraordinary…
By Stella MadeteOxfam in South Sudan Monica has not been home in Malakal for almost two years.…
Somalia hasn’t been in the news much in the past couple of years – which is largely…
An end to the fighting would go a long way toward solving the challenges so many families…
Eid is upon us. But it doesn’t feel like Eid. Fighting in Yemen has not ceased throughout…
The world’s most powerful political leaders will be quietly absent from the UN Financing for Development Conference…
By Lisa Rutherford (press office, Oxfam Great Britain) The 7.9 magnitude earthquake on 25th April left the country…
1. As of today, many people are still in dire need.The earthquake that struck Nepal on April…
By Shaheen ChughtaiOxfam’s Deputy Head of Humanitarian Policy and CampaignsKathmandu was ever a disaster-in-waiting. The densely populated…
“We feel like leaders”, “I am no longer the same”, “We are together now”, “we know we…
An Oxfam staff worker has written a blog about what life has been like in Yemen for…
Why is Oxfam calling for a World Tax Summit? by Winnie Byanyima As the World Economic Forum…
By Winnie Byanyima This year, global leadership will be tested like never before. Significant progress has been…
Blog by Christine McCartney, Oxfam Ireland Inequality is rising – to the detriment of us all. You…
by Winnie Byanyima As famous footballers from across the globe are competing for the World Cup in…
by Anna Kramer, Oxfam America Recently, a friend of mine almost got into trouble with the US…
No company is too big to listen to its customers. When enough of us speak out, companies…
by Ed Pomfret New emergencies seem to hit the world on a monthly basis. Right now we…
by Winnie Byanyima After the world was plunged into a financial crisis, back in 2009, G20 leaders…
by Stephanie Burgos, Oxfam America As international negotiations on what constitutes responsible agricultural investment are set to…
The IPCC has presented their latest report on the impacts of climate change on humanity, and what…
by Yeb Sano Typhoon Haiyan, the biggest storm to ever make landfall, devastated my homeland. Three days…
Virginia’s story “I see the climate is changing a lot,” says Virginia Ñuñonca, a farmer and community…
by Duncan Green When I get into my car in London, I step into a system designed…
by Steve Cockburn Moussa – not his real name – stood with his last pile of groundnuts,…
by Eric Hazard Over 810,000 people are in need of immediate food aid in northern Mali as…
On 1 June 2011, Oxfam launched the GROW campaign to tackle the injustice of 900 million people…
by Nick Galasso, Oxfam America research and policy advisor It’s time they pay their taxes, stop…
By Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of Oxfam International, and Raymond Offenheiser, President of Oxfam America Jobs, innovation,…
This week has been action-packed for Oxfam Canada! In addition to preparing the ground work for this…
The G20 – or group of 20 – meets every year to discuss key issues in the…
by Victoria Marzilli Two months. That is all it took for chocolate lovers and social justice…
Small-scale women farmers are the backbone of Africa’s food system, but, as corporations buy up huge swathes…
by Anna Kramer, Oxfam America How much food does your household go through in a week?…