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A farmer working besides a watering canal in Cambodia. Credit: Jim Holmes/Oxfam

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Women beneficiaries with aid relief in Ajabnagar , West Bengal. Credit: Anisa Draboo/Oxfam

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Srey Sap Sak rides her bicycle, in Cambodia. Credit: Jack Picone/Oxfam

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A group of pupils reading books during class, Ngaresero, Tanzania. Credit: Geoff Sayer/Oxfam

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Emergency food response to the Indonesian tsunami. Photo: Jim Holmes/Oxfam

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Shymal Shinde, chairwoman of Slums Federation, India. Credit: Tomás Abella/Oxfam

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AIDS orphan Fanny Jeofry. Photo: Abbie Trayler-Smith/Oxfam

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Enrolled nurse, Miriam Chisizwa, takes the blood pressure of patient Agnes Colinto. Credit: Abbie Trayler-Smith/Oxfam

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Group of people laughing outside the grain store at Ngaresero, Tanzania. Credit: Geoff Sayer/Oxfam

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Dilai Haile, aged thirteen, walks back to her home carrying a water drum on her shoulder. Tigray, Ethiopia. Credit: Tomás Abella/Oxfam

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Women returning to their destroyed villages, DRC. Photo: Tineke D'haese/Oxfam

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Oxfam volunteers dressed as Starbucks workers cut up a check to Ethiopian coffee famers in protest against Starbucks. Credit: Andy Aitchison/Oxfam

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Workers packing plums in a packing line. Chile. Credit: Toby Adamson/Oxfam

Trade

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