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  • Poorest people get less than one cent per day to protect themselves from impacts of climate crisis

    23 September 2019

    Leaders must heed climate strikes and give vulnerable people the tools to survive.

  • Nidhal, from Musahak village in Salah al-Din governorate, was forced to leave her home in October 2015 to escape life under ISIS. Photo: Charlotte Sawyer/Oxfam

    ‘I am determined to realize my dream’

    9 October 2018
    This research report explores the decision making processes of displaced people and returnees in Salah al-Din governorate, Iraq. It finds that against a backdrop of strong family and community support, displaced people and returnees – including women – have surprising levels of agency and self-direction.
  • Global aid stagnates at a time of unprecedented needs

    9 April 2018

    The slight decrease in development aid spending in 2017 is bad news for the fight to end poverty and reduce inequalities, said Oxfam today in response to the publication of new aid figures by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

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