Press releases

Most countries recognize Palestinian statehood, yet Israel’s international law violations are accelerating.

Israel’s destruction of three Oxfam partner premises this week underscores threat to Gaza’s humanitarian workers and facilities.

The vital transition from fossil fuels into renewable energy is being captured by super-rich polluters.

Oxfam leaders, experts, and partners are joining the UN 80th General Assembly and Climate Week in New York, hosting and attending events and releasing reports and statements focused on gender, humanitarian crises with a focus on Gaza, climate action, UN reform, and more. Oxfam will be urging global leaders to take bold decisions and action as they deliberate on the pressing issues of our time.

The leaders of over 20 major aid agencies working in Gaza are calling on world leaders to urgently intervene after a UN commission concluded, for the first time, that genocide is being committed.  

Oxfam joins over 80 CSOs in launching a report and calling for a ban on trade with illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory.

Israel’s intent to displace around 1 million civilians, half of whom are living in famine, is impossible and illegal Oxfam said today, while the Israeli military continued to flatten Gaza City building by building as its mass forced displacement of civilians in the city gains terrifying momentum.

Rich countries have broken their climate finance promises to a key grouping of eight highly vulnerable African countries. Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda – collectively called the IGAD region – have together received, on average, $1.7 billion annually, between 2013 to 2022, in “grant equivalents”, being the true value of climate support after interest and debt repayments.

Oxfam response to new revelations from Bloomberg about harmful private hospital investments backed by development banks. 

“Despite warnings in July that famine was imminent, Israel has continued to starve Palestinians."