By Gabriela Bucher, Executive Director of Oxfam International
Just imagine, looking back to a time when COVID-19 brought us together.
Leaders who united to overcome a health crisis also gained the courage to avert climate catastrophe. The unstoppable global movements of #BlackLivesMatter, #MeToo, #NiUnaMenos, climate strikers, workers, more, realized their…
Roughly 250,000 Rohingya girls live in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar refugee camps. For International Day of the Girl, Oxfam is pleased to share the work of Ishrat Bibi, Parmin Fatema, and Umme Salma — three young women living in the camps who were featured in Oxfam’s 2021 Rohingya Arts Competition. …
Roula Seghaier, IDWF (International Domestic Workers Federation)
Like any other term that represents diverse schools of thought, waves, cultures and approaches, the term feminism remains divisive and contentious. …
“Nothing is impossible,” says 22-year-old Rohingya artist Enayet Khan, summing up his approach to life. Enayet spends his days painting inside his shelter at the Nayapara refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. The camps are home to almost a million Rohingya refugees who fled horrific violence and persecution in Myanmar…
By Ioan Nemes, Private Sector Lead at Oxfam Novib
A quiet revolution has been taking place in the Dutch retail world during the past three weeks. We are now in the third year of Oxfam’s Behind the Barcode’s campaign, and within the space of less than three weeks from the…
Gabriela Bucher
You may be a woman sorting seafood in Thailand. You may be one of the many key workers keeping the food industry going in challenging circumstances. …
Gabriela Bucher is the Executive Director of Oxfam International and Michael Taylor is the Director of the International Land Coalition. Both organisations recently released new data on the state of land inequality: Uneven Ground: Land Inequalities at the Heart of Unequal Societies.
Land. It is a commodity like no other…
By Evelien van Roemburg, Head of Oxfam’s EU office
Macron’s recent announcement to end France’s military operations in the Sahel after the political turmoil in Chad and Mali show, once again, that the Sahel region is being pulled into a perilous downward spiral while Europe stands on the sidelines. This…
By Nadia Daar, Head of Oxfam International’s Washington DC Office
In my last blog, I laid out why so many have been calling for a significant new issuance of Special Drawing Rights (SDRs), a form of global currency that can be pumped into the global economy, with non-repayable allocations afforded…
