Food inflation in East African countries where tens of millions of people are caught in an alarming hunger crisis has increased sharply, reaching a staggering 44% in Ethiopia – nearly five times the global average. It is estimated that one person is dying every 48 seconds in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia alone, where the worst […]
The amount of money required to respond to the increasing impacts of climate change-related extreme weather events like floods and drought is now eight times higher than 20 years ago, and the global community is failing to keep up, a new Oxfam report today reveals. Average annual extreme weather-related humanitarian funding appeals rose to an […]
As Minister for International Development and the Pacific, Pat Conroy MP, is welcomed to the Australian Government’s ministry, a new group of Australian NGOs – known as ‘The Ripple Project’ – has set an ambition to increase Australian aid through legislated targets. Seeking to build public and cross-party political support for graduated increases to aid […]
As Australians have faced rising cost of living pressures, we have seen five new billionaires minted in a single year. Every 30 hours, a new billionaire was created during the pandemic; the same rate at which a million people could fall into extreme poverty this year, a new Oxfam brief today reveals. Profiting from Pain […]
Commenting on the 2022 federal election result, Oxfam Australia Chief Executive Lyn Morgain said: “Oxfam congratulates all candidates elected to the Australian parliament, including our new Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, and his Labor government. “Australians have made clear their desire for a different kind of parliament to confront the challenges facing us. They want […]
Over a quarter of a billion more people could crash into extreme levels of poverty in 2022 because of COVID-19, rising global inequality and the shock of food price rises supercharged by the war in Ukraine, a new Oxfam briefing reveals. Published ahead of the World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings in Washington DC, First […]
Commenting on the budget and its impact on aid, Oxfam Australia Chief Executive Lyn Morgain said: “At a time of rapidly escalating need and growing inequality across the globe, this federal budget fails to demonstrate the leadership that is required from a nation like Australia. “While Oxfam welcomes the marginal increase in aid funding through […]
The human cost of the war in Yemen is rising sharply as the conflict enters its eighth year, with the number of civilian deaths increasing sharply, hunger on the rise and three quarters of the population in urgent need of humanitarian support, Oxfam warned today. The international agency said another year of war would bring […]
In response to the statement issued by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) Development Assistance Committee, which says that countries will be able to count donations of unwanted vaccine doses as part of their foreign aid commitment, for a guideline cost of USD$6.72 a dose, Oxfam’s Health Policy Manager, Anna Marriott, said: “This […]
The wealth of Australia’s 47 billionaires has doubled to $255 billion at a rate of $2376 per second or more than $205 million a day during the first two years of a pandemic that has seen the incomes of 99% of humanity fall and more than 160 million people forced into poverty. That equates to more wealth in the hands of 47 people than the […]