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Women played a key role in Yemen's 2011 popular uprising, but almost a year on they are still waiting for change.

This report examines the impact of the global financial crisis on the budgets of low-income countries, especially their spending to reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDG).

Reaction from the International Committeof the Red Cross

 Its findings should strengthen calls to tackle lax trade regulation, inconsistent tax policy and enforcement, collusion, and corporate greed.

At the EU mini-summit on migration in Brussels today, leaders agreed on the need to work together and suggested to focus on solutions that would stop the arrival of refugees to Europe, including cooperation with Libyan authorities.  Reacting to the news, Oxfam’s EU migration policy advisor, Raphael Shilhav, said:“People who arrive in Europe in search of safety and support are met with barbed wire and brutality. They are trapped in overcrowded camps with insufficient basic services and at risk of violence and sexual abuse. This is unconscionable. Last week…

While the wealthiest in the world contribute most to climate change, It’s the poorest and most marginalized who pay the highest price. 26 million people are forced into poverty every year because of natural disasters, and humanitarian crisis linked to extreme weather requires nine times more funding today than 20 years ago.

The humanitarian crisis caused by the war in Ukraine has been devastating. Oxfam has been responding by primarily working with local civil society organizations who are already supporting displaced people and the communities that host them. This briefing is a summary of the work we have accomplished with our partners during the first 6 months of the war.

While the war in Gaza continues, Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon have forced people to flee their homes. The government has estimated that around 1 million individuals have been displaced. Thousands of people are in need of humanitarian aid.  Please donate today to ​​​support people who have lost everything to this war.​

Responding to the Rio de Janeiro G20 Ministerial Declaration on International Tax Cooperation published today, Oxfam International’s Tax Policy Lead Susana Ruiz, said: "This is serious global progress —for the first time in history, the world’s largest economies have agreed to cooperate to tax the ultra-rich. Finally, the richest people are being told they can't game the tax system or avoid paying their fair share." 

As EU and Israeli officials meet today behind closed doors to discuss their bilateral relationship, Agnès Bertrand-Sanz, Oxfam humanitarian expert, said: “The EU includes human rights clauses in its bilateral deals for a reason, yet with Israel, these clauses seem optional. By having this meeting, the EU is signalling that it is business as usual”.