SYRIA CRISIS APPEAL

16 May 2013

Poor countries are cutting back investment in farming, health service and services to help women because of fears about rising debts and the impact of the economic crisis, according to a new database launched today. 

15 May 2013

International donors must help Mali to rebuild its ability to govern itself and stop its slide into economic ruin if it is to “win the peace” following the French-led military intervention, says Oxfam.

15 May 2013

A new report, Exploring the Links Between International Business and Poverty Reduction: Bouquets and Beans from Kenya, has been released by Oxfam and International Procurement and Logistics (IPL).

8 May 2013

Talks yesterday on Syria between US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov offered modest signs of progress towards alleviating the humanitarian situation, halting the violence, and achieving a political solution.

6 May 2013

Africa’s remarkable growth, driven in large part by a minerals and energy boom, is threatened by illicit capital outflows and widening income gaps.

Goldmine, Poedogo, Burkina Faso. Photo: Pablo Tosco/Oxfam
2 May 2013

A new coalition of tea companies, non-governmental organisations and certification organizations said today that systemic problems are locking-in low wages for tea workers. 

Tea picking in Mulanje, Southern Malawi. Photo: Abbie Trayler-Smith
30 April 2013

The world risks failing the people of Syria as the scale of suffering increases and the humanitarian fall-out from the crisis worsens by the day.

Aid agency calls for improved humanitarian access to Syria as needs escalate
26 April 2013

Governments must move quickly at this year’s first UN climate change meeting to plug the gaping deficit of funds to help developing countries adapt to climate change and lower their emissions.

Arifa, 12, in a flooded land in Bangladesh. Photo: Shehab Uddin/DRIK/Oxfam
25 April 2013

Northern Mali will descend to emergency levels of food insecurity in less than two months if the security situation and humanitarian access to vulnerable communities do not improve.

Carte de la sécurité alimentaire au Mali en juin 2013 (Cadre harmonisé)
24 April 2013

The Government of Guatemala has recognized three commitments to the communities evicted from Polochic Valley. The campaign organized by Oxfam and Vamos al Grano has generated 107,000 signatures in support of the cause.

Families displaced in Polochic Valley, Guatemala. Photo: Pablo Tosco/Oxfam