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Responding to the recent wave of attacks in Ukraine which killed at least 52 people, Nicola Bay, Oxfam’s Organizational Lead in Ukraine said: "The attacks, which were near the operations being run by Oxfam and its partner organizations, will mean reaching those people already impacted by this war will be even more challenging."  

Intersectional feminist activism leads the way to a more equitable world, challenging harmful binaries and unsustainable relationships with natural environments. Oxfam commits to embracing urgent transformations, supporting intersectional feminist movements for socially just and inclusive futures.

In a context where the interplay of the economic crisis and socio-political challenges have pushed large segments of the population residing in Lebanon into poverty, weakened public health infrastructure and severely limited the availability, quality and affordability of essential services, access to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) is gravely restricted. 

Four years after the full-scale Russian invasion in 2022, Ukraine’s humanitarian response continues to be shaped by the people and organizations closest to the communities affected by the war. In this edition of Oxfam’s Ukraine Response Accountability Briefing, we invited the leaders of Oxfam’s strategic partner organizations to reflect on what leadership means in a context of prolonged crisis, uncertainty, and change.

At a moment of growing pressure on multilateralism and the United Nations (UN), the new UN Secretary-General (UN SG) selection is pivotal. The new UN SG's office is also crucial for protecting public space, dissent and civic freedoms enshrined in the UN Charter, International Law and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Therefore, #HandsOffOurSpaces campaign is campaigning for principled, feminist and committed UNSG.

The UN Secretary-General has called the World Humanitarian Summit in 2016 ‘to make humanitarian action fit for the future'. Tens of millions of people receive humanitarian aid every year, but millions more suffer without adequate help and protection, and their number is relentlessly rising.

The African Union (AU) has set out a clear vision through agenda 2063. It is one where the continent’s citizens are front and centre in defining their development agenda and where Africa’s resources benefit all Africans. A critical enabler of this vision is citizens’ right to organise and their ability to speak out against poverty, inequality and injustice. In fact, the AU has designated 2016 as the ‘Year of Human Rights’. Yet across the continent, there is an alarming and growing trend of citizens’ fundamental rights to assembly, association and free speech being restricted.A range…

In response to the Royal Society’s report, People and the

“This is great and sorely needed news at a time when the world faces a sobering set of challenges," said Nick Galasso, interim head of Oxfam International's Washington office.

Sustainable agriculture offers the best chances for countries belonging to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to deal with climate change.