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With Iraq on the brink of defeating ISIS, the greatest fear of Iraqi youths is a return of ISIS into their lives and communities.

The FSNAU has announced that the famine status in Somalia has ended.

The strategy to end extreme poverty and support inclusive growth is an important milestone for the World Bank and Oxfam welcomes Jim Kim’s vision and commitment.

Oxfam today warned of a public health catastrophe in flood-hit Pakistan. While funding had stalled in recent weeks, the number of cases of reported disease, numbers of people displaced, and numbers of people affected by the floods continue to rise each day.

Three years after the murder of Honduran rights activist Berta Caceres for her leadership in the campaign against the Agua Zarca hydroelectric project, indigenous people are still being excluded from any consultative process in the extractives industry.

The economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic could push half a billion more people into poverty unless urgent action is taken to bail out developing countries, said Oxfam today.

A major health insurance scheme in Ghana that the World Bank is pushing as a success model for other developing countries is severely flawed and not working for most Ghanaians, according to a new report by international agency Oxfam and Ghanaian NGOs.

Welcoming UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon's visit to South Sudan, Oxfam's Country Director Cecilia Millan said: "South Sudan is rapidly deteriorating into an acute humanitarian crisis.  The fighting has forced people away from their land and ways of making a living. If the conflict does not end soon then people will be unable to plant for the next harvest. If they miss this chance then millions will face severe hunger in the coming months.  “The conflict has to end. Governments need to use their influence with all sides in the conflict to help end the…

In the short period of time between January and March of the current year, 20 human rights defenders have been murdered in Colombia. 

Today, the European Parliament adopted its position on the next EU long-term budget, the Multiannual Financial Framework. Its position called for an increased overall MFF budget, including for its external action, and supported proposals for EU own resources. In response, Hanna Saarinen, Oxfam EU Development Finance Policy Lead, said: “Today’s vote sent a clear signal to EU governments: Europe needs a bigger budget and new funding streams to back it up.