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Millions of people are currently being forced to flee their homes due to conflict, leading to growing numbers of displaced families living without security around the world. We urgently need your help.
Features
It’s time to change the rules that allow the super-rich and multinational companies to hide wealth and avoid paying tax. Add your name to our letter to world leaders, and let’s end the era of tax havens.
We are providing clean water to people in Ethiopia stricken by drought, and helping them manage their livestock. It's vital the international community commits funding now to stop a major disaster.
Syria Refugee Crisis: Is your country doing its fair share?
Most wealthy countries are not contributing their fair share of aid in response to the Syria Refugee Crisis. We are calling for urgent and immediate action to deal with this deepening crisis. Is your country doing its fair share?
One person in three in the world lives in poverty.
Oxfam is determined to change that world by mobilizing the power of people against poverty.
News
62 people own the same as half the world, reveals Oxfam Davos report
Runaway inequality has created a world where 62 people own as much wealth as the poorest half of the world’s population – a figure that has fallen from 388 just five years ago, according to an Oxfam report published today ahead of the annual gathering of the world’s financial and political elites in Davos.
One-off aid convoys won’t save starving Syrians
Only a complete end to the siege in Madaya, and in other beseiged areas such as Fua’a and Kafraya, together with guarantees for sustained aid deliveries alongside humanitarian services will alleviate the crisis in these areas. Oxfam and other leading aid agencies warn that this one off permission to deliver will be insufficient given the current shocking reported levels of malnutrition.
Blogs
26 January 2016
Oxfam and Tax Justice Network are today launching an essay competition on tax justice and human rights. The competition invites practitioners and students from around the world to explore ways in which governments of developing countries and/or civil society in any country can use existing laws to protect human rights in the face of tax injustice.
25 January 2016
Last week Oxfam revealed that 62 people own the same amount of wealth as the poorest 3.6 billion people on the planet. Tax havens are at the heart of fueling this insane level of inequality. That’s why we’re taking them on and that’s why I want to do all I can in 2016 to put a stop to them.
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