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The world has entered a new and dangerous era of climate change impacts, causing huge loss and damage and driving up inequality in the world’s poorest countries that have contributed least to the climate crisis. Yet, new research by Oxfam estimates that nearly half of funding requirements for UN humanitarian appeals linked to extreme weather have gone unmet.

COVID-19 has exacerbated Asia’s crisis of extreme inequality, which is undermining growth and preventing poverty eradication. Asian governments have done almost nothing to combat this rise in inequality and are constrained in their policy choices as debt burdens grow and post-COVID austerity begins.

International aid agency Oxfam is stepping up its cholera prevention work in the Carrefour neighborhood of the capital city Port-au-Prince, to stop the spread of the latest cholera outbreak in the area. Working in coordination with local authorities and international agencies operating in Carrefour, Oxfam will reach an extra 70,000 people with distribution of aquatablets to purify water, disinfection of houses where cholera cases have been detected and massive public health promotion activities in Riviere Froide, an area of Carrefour. This is in…

Ministers speaking for the first time this afternoon at the High Level segment at the UN climate talks in Cancun must show political leadership to ensure key agreements are made by the end of the week.

International agency Oxfam today urged donors to contribute generously to the aid efforts in Sri Lanka. The UN Flash Appeal, to be officially launched later today, will support the Government’s response to the massive floods that have affected the eastern and central parts of the country.

Oxfam is a global movement of people, working together to fight inequality to end poverty and injustice. Working with partners, we won’t stop until every person on the planet can enjoy life that is equal, just, and fair. Find out more about the issues we work on.

Development aid has reached an all-time high, but with 900 million people still living in extreme poverty much more needs to be done, says Oxfam.

Settlement expansion, enabled by discriminatory restrictions on Palestinians in the Jordan Valley, is destroying the viability of a future Palestinian state, a new report by Oxfam said today.

History will be made today at the United Nations as many governments sign an Arms Trade Treaty designed to protect millions living in daily fear of armed violence.

During the two days of the G8 Summit, which starts today, $2.2 billion in illicit flows will have hemorrhaged from developing countries into tax havens and land one and a half times the size of Manhattan sold off to foreign investors.