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Oxfam reaction to Coronavirus pandemic reaching 1 million cases

In reaction to the coronavirus pandemic reaching 1 million confirmed cases, Oxfam interim Executive Director Chema Vera, said today: “This is a grim milestone that must spur the international community to take immediate action. We must tackle this pandemic with single-minded determination, and as...

World’s billionaires have more wealth than 4.6 billion people

The world’s 2,153 billionaires have more wealth than the 4.6 billion people who make up 60 percent of the planet’s population, reveals a new report from Oxfam today ahead of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland.

Oxfam in Asia - Asia Resilience Hub - Statement: AMCDRR 2018

Oxfam Statement: Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction 2018 (AMCDRR 2018)

Asia could and must lead the world to a new era of shared prosperity by reducing disaster impacts, holding true to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 2030 call to "Leave no one behind". Oxfam supports the 8th AMCDRR and aims to work side by side with ministers, organizations, and other actors...

Women’s Economic Leadership and Empowerment in ASEAN Project

The Women’s Economic Leadership and Empowerment in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (WEL in ASEAN) project was implemented to strengthen the capacity of WROs to be able to influence laws and policies for women’s economic leadership and empowerment in the formal and informal sectors of the...

Vaccinating the Poorest Half of Humanity Against Coronavirus

OXFAM PRESS RELEASE May 14, 2020 Vaccinating poorest half of humanity against coronavirus could cost less than four month’s big pharma profits - Oxfam Vaccinating the poorest half of humanity – 3.7 billion people - against coronavirus could cost less than the ten biggest pharmaceutical companies...

A Lao female informal worker carries a stack of old cardboard boxes for recycling

COVID-19 and Responses from Laos and the Greater Mekong Subregion

COVID-19 has brought and continues to bring unpreceded challenges for many countries around the world. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 as a pandemic, at this phase the virus had affected 114 countries and resulted in the 4,000 deaths globally.