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Lydia Doe, People and Culture Manager, has been a Safeguarding Focal Point and responsible for implementation of Safeguarding strategy and policies for Oxfam in Ghana since 2017. “A healthy and safe workplace is the most important and will make people stay in the long run. People prefer dignity over money”, she says.

The World Humanitarian Day – which began 19 August 2003 – is a day to commemorate all the lives and efforts of Oxfam staff and partners working on the frontlines amidst ever more complex and difficult environments.

At any given time, we are responding to over 30 emergency situations, giving life-saving support to those most in need. We help people caught up in disasters and conflicts across the world with clean water, food, sanitation and protection, and we stay long after the dust has settled to help rebuild communities.

More than $2.2 billion worth of arms and ammunition have been imported since 2000 by countries operating under arms embargoes, according to new figures released today by international humanitarian agency Oxfam.

Public aid money should not be used to fund corporate-backed private school chains that fuel inequality. Other donor agencies and governments now need to follow suit, said Oxfam today in response to the US House Financial Services Committee’s (HFSC) announcement that the World Bank and its private sector arm have approved a package of reforms.

More than 80 million people around the world are now officially displaced from their homes. Migration is not a threat to be stopped, it is a complex phenomenon to be managed. Everyone has the right to be safe and to be treated with dignity. Oxfam works with refugees and migrants to help protect people on the move who, when leaving home, are often in the most vulnerable moment of their lives.

The failure to recognize community land rights not only undermines the human rights of local people. It also threatens humanity’s ability to achieve food security and fight climate change.

Refugees living in camps are sharing one tap between up to 250 people and many have less than3.5 square meters of living space per person which will make it extremely difficult to contain the coronavirus outbreak, Oxfam said today.

In 2019, Oxfam Great Britain, in collaboration with the Oxfam in Iraq team and the Oxfam MENA Regional Platform, conducted research in Iraq, Ghana and Myanmar using a human-centered design approach to analyze and understand the critical barriers and preferences influencing community members around reporting of sexual exploitation, abuse and fraud.

A Eurozone breakup could cost the world’s poorest countries $30 billion in lost trade and foreign investment, international agency Oxfam has warned ahead of the G20 leaders meeting in Mexico to discuss the state of the global economy.