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Oxfam expresses its concern about the decision to exclude the victims’ attorneys in the trial for the assassination of Honduran human rights defender and environmental activist Berta Cáceres.

(The ‘Friends of Yemen’ Meeting saw an additional US$1.5 Billion ple

The US government’s plans to give every State a veto over a crucial arms trade treaty must be rejected by the British government as US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton and UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband are set to meet.

Aid agency Oxfam is today launching a major appeal to help families affected by the Syria Crisis get through the harsh winter months – and beyond.

The European Parliament has voted today to increase the EU’s overall spending for development aid in the EU budget for 2020. Reacting to the news, Marissa Ryan, head of Oxfam’s EU office and Oxfam International Deputy Director for Advocacy and Campaigns, said: “It’s good to see that the European Parliament has suggested an increase to the EU’s proposed spending on development and humanitarian action in 2020. However,the EU will nonetheless fail to meet its own spending commitments on education, public health and gender equality in developing countries…

The 2025 Global Report on Food Crises says that 295 million people around the world are now experiencing acute hunger.

At least 23 million Muslims caught up in conflicts and disasters have been fasting this Ramadan in one of the hardest periods in recent years, with many having little more to eat than bread and water during the 30 days of this holy month and others having nothing to eat at all after sunset.

Governments are falling 90 percent short of adaptation finance targets and leaving people in climate-vulnerable communities drastically under-equipped to cope with the devastating impacts of climate change, Oxfam warns ahead of Bonn climate talks (8-18 June).  

In response to the decision by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in the Grand Chamber’s first-ever climate-related cases (Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switzerland, Duarte Agostinho and Others v. Portugal and Others, and Carême v. France), Evelien van Roemburg, Head of Oxfam’s European Union office said: “European judges have ruled that a government’s failure to do enough to reduce national greenhouse gas emissions violates its population’s human rights. This is a positive step and allows people to require their governments to put in place effective climate regulations and carbon budgets. But the judges did not challenge Switzerland’s decision to give itself almost three more decades to reach net zero emissions, even though people around the world are being harmed now by the climate crisis.”    

Oxfam welcomes today's World Bank report 'Clima