On Saturday April 16, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Ecuador killing hundreds of people, leaving thousands wounded and causing severe damage to infrastructure. Access to safe drinking water and storage, as well as shelter is urgently needed. With your help we can reach the most vulnerable populations with vital assistance.
Millions of people are being forced to flee their homes. We urgently need your help to reach more people affected by conflict in Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and closer to home in Serbia, Macedonia and Italy.
Oxfam is joining forces with a group of incredible organizations. Together we’re calling on EU leaders to meet the needs of refugees arriving at our borders without doing so at the expense of the world's poorest.
Berta Cáceres peacefully opposed a dam being built in her community.
Millions of people are being forced to flee their homes. We urgently need your help to reach more people affected by conflict in Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and closer to home in Serbia, Macedonia and Italy.
Five years after the beginning of the conflict in Syria the war shows no sign of abating. Today, half the pre-conflict population of 22 million Syrians have fled their homes and more than 13.5 million people are in need of your help.
We are responding to a major earthquake off the coast of Ecuador that caused hundreds of deaths and injured thousands of people. Access to safe drinking water and storage, as well as shelter is urgently needed. Help us.
About 60 million people across the world face worsening hunger and poverty due to droughts and crop failures in 2014/5. The situation has been exacerbated by the worst ever recorded El Niño weather system and the number of people struggling to survive is likely to rise. Hear their stories.
Every day, boatloads of people fleeing war and poverty arrive on the small Greek Island of Lesbos from Turkey. They have risked their lives on a dangerous voyage with no guarantees. They are now stranded in Greece, without hope of continuing their journey to Europe. They need your help.
One person in three in the world lives in poverty.
Oxfam is determined to change that world by mobilizing the power of people against poverty.
With 2016 on track to be the hottest year ever and a super-charged El Niño putting over 60 million lives at the mercy of unpredictable climate shocks, it’s more urgent than ever to help communities adapt to climate change, said Oxfam at the start of the United Nation’s climate conference in Bonn, Germany.
Oxfam International Executive Director, Winnie Byanyima, will use the WEF Africa meeting in Kigali, Rwanda this week to call for a radical overhaul in the way African countries manage the income from natural resources, an end to tax havens and the use of progressive taxation to fight inequality.
Next August, the St. Petersburg Ballet Theater is bringing a ballet version of Bizet’s Carmen to London's Coliseum theater. The production will be set in a European refugee camp and adapt the opera's free spirited gypsy to the stories of the more than one million people who arrived in Europe last year. As part of our research for their production, Oxfam took the prima ballerina, Irina Kolesnikova, choreographer Andrei Kuznetzov-Vecheslov and the director of the St. Petersburg Theater Ballet Konstantin Tachkin, to visit camps in Macedonia and Serbia where they met people from Syria and Afghanistan trapped by the recent border closures in the Balkans. Irina tells us what the trip meant to her.
World leaders meeting in New York to sign the Paris Climate Change Agreement they negotiated in December must strengthen their current pledges and increase the money so urgently needed to enable people to adapt to the changing climate.
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