“I love my people and I do not want them to die”
Alima Jamboria is a Community Health Worker and Chairperson of the Community.I'm a Community Health Worker…
Ebola – the Invisible Foe
Ebola is with us – here and now. It is an invisible foe. It is transmitted…
Gap between rich and poor widening – and it’s not just us saying it
Blog by Christine McCartney, Oxfam Ireland Inequality is rising – to the detriment of us all.…
First she kept her own family together. Then she became a spokesperson for family farmers around the world.
First she kept her own family together. Then she became a spokesperson for family farmers around…
Ending Hunger, One Step at a Time
“I see the climate is changing a lot. Before it wasn’t like this.” Climate change is…
7 big questions about Ebola, answered
Blog originaly published by Oxfam America As the Ebola outbreak in West Africa continues to claim…
Support for Women Farmers Could Help us Beat Hunger
Blog post by Winnie Byanyima – Oxfam International’s Executive Director Across South Asia and Southeast Asia,…
(This article was originaly published in straight.com on Oct 10, 2014 at 11:07am) At the end of…
Families are leading the way to feed people and fight climate change
It’s 4am. You get up like any other morning with your young baby. Except today is…
Cultivating Food Security for the people of El Salvador
Food. It’s one of life’s great pleasures. We think about it all the time. Most of…
Post-hurricane: Sustainability and Resilience in Cuba
Abel Veiga Esperon was not afraid of hurricanes until Paloma hit, a day forever etched in…
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Reaction: Severe flooding in Gaza
In response to the severe flooding in Gaza, Wassem Mushtaha, Oxfam’s Response Lead in Gaza said: “Last night six people – a mother with her two children and three other children from the same family – were killed when a sand embankment collapsed onto their tent. They had been sheltering among forcibly displaced families in…
REACTION: Budget 2026 helps at the margins but bets big on business – Oxfam Canada
Yesterday, Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne tabled the second budget of Mark Carney’s government. Against a backdrop of a relentless affordability crisis in Canada and growing global instability, Budget 2026 takes real steps to support people through expanded income supports, new investments in housing and homelessness, and $32 billion over 10 years for First Nations housing…
Every 20 minutes, Canada’s private jets emit more carbon pollution than the average Canadian does in a year
New Oxfam report lands days before the November 5 federal budget, a year after Ottawa ended the luxury tax on private planes. In 2025, 71,239 private jet flights left Canada, emitting more than 333,000 tonnes of CO2. In 11 minutes, those jets emitted more CO2 than someone in the poorest half of Canada’s population emits…
REACTION: Israeli large-scale military operation and mass displacement in Hebron
Responding to the large-scale Israeli military operation and mass displacement in Hebron in recent days, Oxfam’s Response Lead in the West Bank, Mustafa Tamaizeh, said: “This is not only a humanitarian crisis but a deliberate assault on the economic foundations of Palestinian life, as families lose their homes and livelihoods. The destruction of factories, workshops,…