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South Sudan is in the midst of a catastrophic humanitarian crisis driven by ethnic conflict and climate. Help us provide food, water and sanitation now.

Close to a million Rohingya people, more than half of them children, have fled violence in Myanmar to seek refuge across the border in Bangladesh. 70% of the refugees are without adequate shelter and half have no safe drinking water. This is a massive humanitarian crisis. Oxfam is responding, but we need your help.

On the European Parliament's call to ban arms sales from the European Union to countries accused of targeting civilians in Yemen, Oxfam's International Policy Advisor Arms and Conflict, Martin Butcher, said:“We welcome the European Parliament's call for a stop to arms sales to the belligerents in Yemen's conflict. The European Parliament has recognised the civilian deaths, suffering and destruction in Yemen resulting from the ongoing war. We look forward to working with the EU and member states to uphold international humanitarian law and enforce the EU's own rules on arms exports,…

Number killed directly by fighting is equivalent to eight more bus loads.

Despite a pause in the month-long bombardment, the people of Gaza are facing a critical public health crisis due to the destruction and contamination of Gaza’s water supply, worldwide development organization Oxfam warned today.The bombing has destroyed dozens of wells, pipelines, and reservoirs, and fresh water is contaminated with raw sewage. 15,000 tons of solid waste fills the streets, water pumping stations are on the verge of running out of fuel, and many neighborhoods have been without power for days.“We’re working in an environment with a completely…

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

The number of people in need as a result of the conflict in Syria continues to rise. Oxfam is calling for rich states to commit to fully funding this year’s Syria crisis response appeal and to resettle 10 percent of all registered Syrian refugees by the end of 2016.

On August 4, 2020, Lebanon was ravaged by a disastrous blast in Beirut’s port, resulting in over 200 deaths and 6500 injuries, and causing massive destruction. Oxfam conducted a research study aiming at understanding the impact of the series of crises on the livelihoods and wellbeing of queer individuals.

Executive summaryAfrica faces a double crisis of inequality. Not only are the continent and its countries among the world’s most unequal, but its governments are on average among the least committed to reducing inequality. This has created a situation in which a few people are becoming rich beyond their wildest dreams, while the majority endure increasing hardship: Africa’s four richest people – all of whom are men – have more wealth than half of the region’s 750 million people combined. Over the past five years, African billionaires have increased their…

Oxfam has calculated that nearly half of the world’s top donors didn’t give their fair share of aid to the Syria crisis in 2014, based on the size of their economies.