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Oxfam’s Partnership for Citizen Engagement (PACE) receives MOU approval

A new project to improve good governance at the Lao People’s Provincial Assembly Monday, July 8, 2019 Vientiane, Lao PDR - Oxfam and the National Assembly (NA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to implement the Partnership for Citizen Engagement (PACE) project in six provinces (...

Billionaire fortunes grew by $2.5 billion a day last year as poorest saw their wealth fall – new Oxfam report

Billionaire fortunes increased by 12 percent last year – or $2.5 billion a day - while the 3.8 billion people who make up the poorest half of humanity saw their wealth decline by 11 percent, reveals a new report from Oxfam today. The report is being launched as political and business leaders gather...

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...

Garment Workers and Union Activism

A story from 2016 about how Oxfam helped garment factory workers in Vientiane, Laos. As manufacturing production has continued to expand in Laos, so has its need for trade union activism. The well-being of workers, especially women during reproductive periods, is often jeopardized due to the lack...

Ms. Chanpeng Sengmany, 38, of Ban Somsavath in Bokeo Province.

In her own words

Ms. Chanpeng - A story of change in her own words: “We’ve faced difficult times here. There were hardly any roads to our village, no health center and the village primary school only covered grades 1, 2 and 3. I used to take care of our children and walk many kilometers to get water from the river...