Oxfam - Fighting Inequality to End Poverty & Injustice | Oxfam
Nov 5, 2024 · Politics of Poverty. New oil, gas, and mining disclosures provide critical climate information. Oct. 29, 2024. The recent Dodd-Frank 1504 disclosures offer important new information on critical minerals and the oil and gas assets’ potential to be stranded. Story.
About us | Fight inequality to end poverty and injustice - Oxfam
Oxfam's mission and vision. Oxfam is a global organization that fights inequality to end poverty and injustice. We offer lifesaving support in times of crisis and advocate for economic justice, gender equality, and climate action. We demand equal rights and equal treatment so that everyone can thrive, not just survive.
What is global inequality? | Oxfam
Nov 23, 2022 · Global inequality is the unequal distribution of resources, opportunities, and power that shape well-being among the 8 billion individuals on our planet. Distinct from inequality within a country or between countries, global inequality is one way of understanding the different lived experiences of our fellow humans, no matter where they live.
Why is clean water important? | Oxfam
Mar 21, 2022 · Promoting good hygiene is also essential, especially during a pandemic. Oxfam partners train community leaders to encourage handwashing at critical moments. We provide hygiene kits with soap, water purification tablets, and other necessities that help people displaced by emergencies keep clean and avoid cholera outbreaks and …
What is the gender pay gap? - Oxfam
Mar 12, 2024 · The gender pay gap is the difference in earnings between women and men. Women are paid less than men for many reasons—including gender discrimination in hiring and workplace policies, lost earnings potential when leaving the job market to take care of children, and insufficient worker protection laws.
What We Believe - Oxfam
We believe in equality. That’s it. Plain and simple. Not the everyone-gets-the-same-slice-of-pie kind of equal, but the let’s-share-the-recipe-so-there’s-enough-for-everyone kind of equal. We want: For everyone. For far too long, we’ve let a privileged few determine how the rest of us live. Poverty and injustice are the consequences ...
Donate to Gaza and Israel emergency appeal today - Oxfam
Oct 4, 2024 · The humanitarian needs in Gaza are enormous following the violent attacks by Palestinian armed groups and Israel’s retaliatory siege and airstrikes starting in October 2023. More than 2 million people face a massive crisis, as electricity, fuel, food, and water remain unavailable, and incoming aid isn’t enough to handle the enormous scope ...
What is famine? Causes and effects and how to stop it | Oxfam
Jul 2, 2024 · What does famine mean? According to researchers Dan Maxwell and Nisar Majid, famine is “an extreme crisis of access to adequate food.”. Visible in “widespread malnutrition” and “loss of life due to starvation and infectious disease,” famine robs people of their dignity, equality, and for some—their lives.
Do the rich pay their fair share? - Oxfam
Jan 14, 2024 · For comparison, the average American taxpayer in the same year paid 13 percent. According to leaked tax returns highlighted in a ProPublica investigation, the 25 richest Americans paid $13.6 billion in taxes from 2014-2018 —a “true” tax rate of just 3.4 percent on $401 billion of income. That’s not paying your fair share.
Decolonize! What does it mean? | Oxfam
Dec 15, 2022 · What does it mean? This document introduces the key concepts of decolonial theory that inform many current calls to decolonize. It provides examples from Latin America, Africa, and North America of how activists have envisioned or realized decolonial futures. These movements led by Indigenous Peoples, people of color, women, and queer people ...