Two women in the displaced persons camp in Dar Agg, Somalia.

Hunger crisis in East Africa

The Horn, East and Central Africa are facing a profoundly alarming hunger crisis. More than 44 million people are in need of humanitarian aid. Oxfam is on the ground responding but we urgently need your help to save more lives.

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Mind the gap: Oxfam's fourth Supermarket Scorecard explained

Since the 2018 launch of Oxfam’s international Behind the Price campaign, most supermarkets have started to take human rights in their food supply chains seriously. However, our fourth Supermarket Scorecard shows that they need to do much more to ensure the women and men who produce our food get their fair share of the value they create.

Crisis in Ukraine

Over 4 million people have fled deadly violence in Ukraine. They need food, water, and warm clothing, but above all they need to feel safe. Oxfam is supporting local organizations providing humanitarian aid to vulnerable families in neighboring countries and lobbying governments to provide a safe haven to Ukrainian and other refugees. Please give what you can today to help us meet the most urgent needs.

Down the waterway: on the quest for water in Burkina Faso

Since January 2019, the Northern Region of Burkina Faso has been affected by armed conflicts that have forced 1.7 million people to flee. Now they face a new challenge: finding water. In order to fully grasp the extent of this challenge, photojournalist Samuel Turpin travelled to the Central North region of the country with Oxfam, where water has become a scarce resource.

“A two-tier refugee response”: Greece’s welcome of people fleeing Ukraine stands in stark contrast with others seeking safety

The Greek government is operating “a two-tier refugee response” - one for Ukrainians and one for all other refugees according to a new briefing by the Greek Council for Refugees, Oxfam and Save the Children.

IMF must abandon demands for austerity as cost-of-living crisis drives up hunger and poverty worldwide

87 percent of the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) COVID-19 loans are requiring developing countries that have been denied equal access to vaccines and are facing some of the world’s worst humanitarian crises to adopt tough, new austerity measures that will further exacerbate poverty and inequality.

Oxfam reaction to the IPC's report on high acute food insecurity in South Sudan

Responding to the IPC report published over the weekend with alarming figures of around 7.74 million people in South Sudan likely to experience high levels of acute food insecurity between April and July 2022, Oxfam Lead in South Sudan, Juliet Moriku Balikowa said: “These latest figures just reiterate the desperate situation many people in South Sudan are facing. The number of people classified in areas of catastrophic hunger is alarming."

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Oxfam is a global movement of people, working together to end the injustice of poverty. That means we tackle the inequality that keeps people poor. Together, we save, protect and rebuild lives when disaster strikes. We help people build better lives for themselves, and for others. we take on issues like land rights, climate change and discrimination against women. And we won’t stop until every person on the planet can enjoy life free from poverty.

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