This Friday 8 March is International Women’s Day. It’s a day to honour women and their achievements while noting that our society is still not a safe, equal place for women. This is especially true for women living through humanitarian crises.  In times of crisis and conflict, women face unique challenges. These can include an increased threat of gender-based violence, limited access to reproductive health services, menstrual health products, and complications with pregnancy and childbirth. If they are parents, they also face the constant stress and uncertainty of keeping their children s ..read more

Every child deserves to go to school. But right now, too many girls across Malawi and Zimbabwe are facing barriers that halt their education. These barriers include discrimination, poverty, child marriage, gender-based violence and an unfair share of unpaid care and domestic work.   If a girl can finish her education, she’s more likely to grow up and find safe, secure employment, influence decision making in her home and her community, and live free of poverty.  In partnership with the Judith Neilson Foundation, Oxfam is investing in girls’ education in Malawi and Zimbabwe to cr ..read more

In October 2023, we sent our six-monthly Supporter Satisfaction Survey out to a representative group of our most active supporters to help us understand what we’re doing well, and what we could improve on. It specifically addressed overall satisfaction as well as supporter effort. This gave us learnings and feedback that we can build into our programs and ensures that our supporters have the best possible experience interacting with us.  Overall, we found that 83% of respondents were satisfied with their experiences engaging with Oxfam, and that 77% of respondents found it easy to interac ..read more

The ongoing conflict in Gaza has now displaced over 1.9 million people — in many cases, more than once. Deprived of the basics like clean water and food, disease and starvation are deadly risks. Here’s the latest update on life in Gaza, and what your support has helped deliver so far.  As of last week, Gaza has been under siege for four months. More than 25,000 Palestinians have been killed, and thousands more lay buried under rubble. More than 60,000 people are thought to be injured, with many of these injuries likely to result in permanent disability.   The 1.9 million people ..read more

Oxfam has been part of a movement of organisations advocating against the unfair stage-three tax cuts, which would have deepened inequality in Australia. The Government’s changes are a substantial improvement, but they won’t solve the inequality problem in Australia. Here’s how we’re working to make tax fair.  In recent weeks, the Albanese Government has announced changes to the stage-three tax cuts that will make them fairer – a welcome diversion from what would have been a devastating tax change that would have exacerbated inequality in Australia.    Over the past year, O ..read more

For over 30 years, Oxfam, the community organisations we partner with and people like you have worked in Vanuatu to reduce inequality and increase opportunities for women, the LGBTQI+ community and people with disabilities. Here’s how we’re supporting people to come together, learn new skills and challenge harmful social norms.   We believe that everyone deserves to live in an equal world. Yet too often, systems and social norms limit opportunities and fuel poverty. This can be especially the case for women, the LGBTQI+ community and people with disabilities, who often face additiona ..read more

One year after the devastating earthquakes struck Syria and Türkiye, Oxfam and our partners have supported over 2 million people with clean water, sanitation systems, cash, hygiene items and clothes and blankets, food, and services to help people at risk of gender-based violence.  The 7.8 magnitude earthquake and the aftershocks that followed killed nearly 56,000 people, leaving roughly 10 million in urgent need of assistance.  Your impact in numbers An Oxfam staff member delivers hygiene materials to female students in Aleppo schools to help them follow and maintain good hygiene pra ..read more

The wealth of the three richest Australians, Gina Rinehart, Andrew Forrest and Harry Triguboff, has more than doubled since 2020 at a staggering rate of $1.5 million per hour. Meanwhile 5 billion people are poorer thanks to the pandemic, war and climate change impacts.  These are some of the stark findings of Inequality Inc, an Oxfam flagship report launched ahead the 2024 annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, held in the Swiss mountain resort town of Davos.   The report also finds that in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis spurred by the pandemic, war, famine and ..read more

As we go into 2024, we wanted to give a warm thank you to the supporters who donated their time, money and energy in 2023 to help tackle the inequalities that fuel poverty.  In the past 12 months our supporters, alongside the partners who help deliver our projects, the community groups they work with and the advocates calling for change, have:  supported more than 2.7 million people in 32 countries  worked with 280 partners to directly impact the lives of over 285,000 people  reached more than 2.5 million people with life-saving aid during an emergency  helped influen ..read more

The richest 1% emit as much carbon pollution as two-thirds of humanity This is one of the shocking findings of Oxfam’s landmark ‘Climate Equality: A Planet for the 99%’ report released ahead of the annual United Nations international climate change conference COP28.    We also found that it would take about 1,500 years for someone in the bottom 99% globally to produce as much carbon as the richest billionaires do in a year.     In fact, the emissions of the wealthiest 1% are so high that every year they cancel out the carbon savings coming from nearly one mil ..read more