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Overcoming inequality and slowing global warming are imperative for achieving a world free from poverty and suffering, says an Oxfam report released today.

Emeritus Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Mary Robinson, Honorary President of Oxfam International and former UN commissioner for human rights, will hear testimony from people living on the climate front line at a special tribunal in Cape Town.

Oxfam and its partners are preparing to respond to category 5 Tropical Cyclone Harold which made landfall on the Pacific nation of Vanuatu, affecting more than 200,000 people.

In response to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights decision setting out governments’ obligations in regard to the climate crisis.

How do we quantify the value of our future? What lengths do we go to ensure this future? And to whom is this duty owed? This is what drives the Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change - this innate duty of care shouldered by the people of the Pacific.

The floods that hit Pakistan in 2010 were the worst in the country’s history.

Billionaire wealth jumped by over 16 per cent in 2025, three times faster than the past five-year average, to $18.3 trillion – its highest level in history, according to a new Oxfam report today as the World Economic Forum opens in Davos.

The new Commission proposals on migration and asylum will likely replicate the abhorrent situation we have been witnessing for years in the Greek EU refugee ‘hotspots’, said Oxfam today.

While previous high-profile conferences promised much but achieved little, World leaders attending the Kabul Conference must tackle the underlying causes of the development and humanitarian crises unfolding in Afghanistan - and help ordinary people lift themselves out of poverty.

Progressive businesses must continue to speak up in support of a strong climate deal in Copenhagen or risk allowing their head-in-the-sand competitors to derail the talks, cautioned Oxfam today, ahead of high-level events on the private sector’s role in tackling climate change.