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Oxfam ready to respond to Hurricane Irma and watching closely tropical storm Jose
Oxfam country teams and partner organizations in the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Cuba are now preparing to respond to probable damage from the impact of Hurricane Irma, to help people who are likely to be hardest-hit there.
43 million hit by South Asia Floods: Oxfam is responding
Oxfam is providing over 186,000 flood-hit people with clean drinking water, food supplies, emergency shelter, hygiene kits, and other essentials.
‘The road smelled of dead bodies’: Iraqis fleeing Tal Afar tell of death in the desert
Traumatized women and children fleeing Iraq's Tal Afar district have told Oxfam how people died walking for days through the desert in 50C heat to reach safety.
Yemen’s man-made catastrophe is forcing people to make stark live or die choices
Yemenis, already on the tipping point after more than two years of war, are now being forced to choose between treating cholera and putting food on the table, said Oxfam in a new report.
Oxfam providing clean water and hygiene kits to survivors of Sierra Leone mudslide
Oxfam is providing clean water and hygiene kits to survivors of yesterday’s mudslide on the outskirts of Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Torture, rape and slavery in Libya: why migrants must be able to leave this hell
Rape, torture and slave labor are among the horrendous daily realities for people stuck in Libya who are desperately trying to escape war, persecution and poverty in African countries, according to a new report by Oxfam and Italian partners MEDU and Borderline Sicilia.
Gaza electricity crisis worse than aftermath of war
The impact of the Gaza electricity crisis on people’s access to basic services is as bad as the aftermath of the 2014 war.
Yemen cholera worst on record & numbers still rising
Massive aid effort and cease-fire needed as rainy season approaches.
The number of people with cholera in Yemen is now the largest ever recorded in any country in a single year, Oxfam said today. At over 350,000 suspected cholera cases in just three months since the outbreak started, it is now already the largest number of cases in a year, topping the previous annual record of 340,311 in Haiti in 2011.
RB calls for tougher tax laws that would protect poor countries, following Oxfam investigation
RB, the multinational company behind global household brands such as Dettol and Vanish, has today backed a public campaign for tougher tax laws after an Oxfam investigation suggested that poor countries are losing valuable revenue needed to tackle poverty due to its tax practices.
Migrants tell of horrific abuses in Libya, while EU readies plan for more cooperation
While EU governments are meeting in Tallinn today to approve plans for more cooperation with Libya in order to stop people from entering Europe, Oxfam and its partners are hearing new accounts of murder, torture and other horrific abuses being suffered by refugees and other people who have fled through Libya - a place they call “hell”.
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