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Governments and aid agencies have to tackle the politics and power at the heart of the increasing effects of climate change, rising inequality and people's vulnerability to disasters according to a new report published today by international agency Oxfam. The report, No Accident: Resilience and the inequality of risk, shows that the risk of disaster [...]
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Several African countries are amongst today's fastest growing economies in the world, boosted in many instances by new discoveries of oil, natural gas and strategic mineral reserves. Extreme poverty on the continent is in decline, and progress towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals has accelerated. A number of very poor African countries, including Malawi, Sierra [...]
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Africa's remarkable growth, driven in large part by a minerals and energy boom, is threatened by illicit capital outflows and widening income gaps, international agency Oxfam has warned ahead of a meeting of top business leaders at the World Economic Forum on Africa in Cape Town, South Africa. Several African countries are amongst the fastest [...]
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A new study estimates that 258,000 people died in the Somalia 201/11 famine - half of them children under 5. In some areas up to 18% of young children died. In response to these shocking new findings, the head of Oxfam in Somalia, Senait Gebregziabher, said: Famines are not natural phenomena, they are catastrophic political [...]
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Just because someone is poor doesn't mean they should not be treated with dignity. And just because someone is hungry doesn't mean that food aid is the best thing to give them. Food aid can save lives - but too often it's patronising, ineffective and doesn't respect the people it's intended to support. Providing cash [...]
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In 2011, as famine hit Somalia, tens of thousands of refugees fled to the Dollo Ado camps in Ethiopia. There are now five camps in Dollo Ado, sheltering over 190,000 people - making it one of the largest refugee sites in the world. Hilaweyn, the fifth camp, was set up after the others reached full [...]
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"Collective Action" holds great promise for multitudes of women whose primary livelihood is dependent on their ability to farm the land and access markets. An Oxfam research project on Women's Collective Action (WCA) in Africa has gathered evidence on effective ways for women smallholders to enhance their incomes, asset ownership, and empowerment. One part of [...]
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Land grabs are a huge problem for millions of people across Africa. Big land deals are putting people and their possessions out of place, forcing them from the place they call home. To send a global message about this injustice, thousands of people from 55 countries in five continents sent photos and videos of ordinary [...]
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Fartuun Adan, one of Oxfam's partners in Somalia and head of the Elman Peace Center and Sisters Somalia, recently did an interview with Arabs Today TV. She talks about her work in Somalia to support survivors of sexual violence, help young people, and promote women's rights: On sexual violence against women: "We wanted to give [...]
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A new Oxfam briefing paper, Promises, Power and Poverty: Corporate land deals and rural women in Africa, reflects the unfortunate finding from recent research that the promises of development benefits from corporate land-based investments are not materialising. Instead unequal power relations, including widespread gender discrimination, are resulting in many rural women losing access to land [...]
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