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Responding to the draft COP26 decision text, Tracy Carty, head of Oxfam’s COP26 delegation said: "This draft COP decision text is too weak. It fails to respond to the climate emergency being faced by millions of people now, who are living with unprecedented extreme weather and being pushed further into poverty."

In response to the publication today of Bloomberg’s investigation into human rights abuses alleged to have been committed in private hospitals.

Over two and a half years into the war, the continued fighting has created extremely challenging conditions for civilians. Ukrainian communities and civil society have always been and continue to be at the forefront of humanitarian response. 

A decade ago, the world’s countries agreed to a vision of what the common good looks like—the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—and a plan to finance that vision—the Addis Ababa Action Agenda. Ten years later, the SDGs and the Addis Agenda are failing.

The world’s richest 1% increased their wealth by more than $33.9 trillion in real terms since 2015, reveals new Oxfam analysis ahead of the world’s largest development financing talks in a decade, in Seville, Spain. This is more than enough to eliminate annual poverty 22 times over at the World Bank’s highest poverty line of $8.30 a day. But about 60% of low-income countries remain in or at risk of debt distress.

New survey by Greenpeace and Oxfam ahead of Bonn climate talks where governments are discussing key climate policy priorities.

Water-borne diseases that are both preventable and readily treatable have increased by almost 150% inside Gaza over the past three months.

A commitment to increase and accelerate public finance is adaptation’s bottom-line.  Without it, the Paris agreement will be a mitigation deal for big emitters, not a climate change agreement for all. This briefing sets out Oxfam's demands on adaptation finance post 2020 that need to be agreed in Paris at the end of this year.

In response to the publication of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s preliminary data on Official Development Assistance for 2024.

Today, EU Foreign Policy Chief, Kaja Kallas, presented a review of the EU-Israel Association Agreement at the meeting of EU Foreign Affairs Ministers. In response, Agnes Bertrand Sanz, Oxfam Humanitarian Expert, said:   “There are moments in history where delay and distraction are not neutral, it is a decision. While EU ministers continue to debate and defer, entire families in Gaza are being buried under rubble and people are being killed while trying to get food.