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Youth Challenge Vanuatu student Glenda Mass uses the e-learning platform from Upskill.

Youth Challenge Vanuatu launches E-learning pilot to support youth during disasters and beyond

It is a familiar conundrum around the world during the coronavirus pandemic – students crammed into home offices or at …
The Carbon Inequality Era

The Carbon Inequality Era

in 1990, we entered a new global era. From 1990 until 2015, as much carbon entered our atmosphere as had …
Power, Profits and the Pandemic

Pandemic Exposes the Obscenity of our Economy: 3 Ways We Got Here and 4 Ways We Can Get Back on Track

Released today, Oxfam’s report – Power, Profits and the Pandemic – reveals how global corporate behaviour has not only made the economic …
World Humanitarian Day 2020

World Humanitarian Day 2020: Celebrating Yemen’s Local Heroes in the Midst of Crisis

This World Humanitarian Day, Oxfam pays tribute to all humanitarians, like these three extraordinary people in Yemen, who are working …
Oxfam Trailwalker 2021

5 reasons why people are doing Oxfam Trailwalker

Since our launch last month, we have seen an incredible response with people stepping up to take on the Oxfam …
Bone Kortie

A family struck by hunger

A Mother of Eight Narrates Ordeal in Covid-19Written by Bettie Kemah Johnson-Mbayo, Oxfam in Liberia Before the Coronavirus pandemic outbreak, Bone …
Covid-19 Vaccine

The Top Five Questions You Asked About Oxfam’s Call For A People’s Vaccine

Oxfam, along with UNAIDS and over 150 world leaders recently called for the forthcoming Coronavirus vaccine to be made available free of charge, …
Meet Nick and Renay – Mindful Travellers

Meet Nick and Renay – Mindful Travellers

Nick Potter and Renay Duncalfe, of Wellington have been driven by their strong values, supporting Oxfam Aotearoa since the early …

Research and reports

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At Oxfam Aotearoa, we believe that all people are entitled to decent work and income security and to essential services such as health and education. Everyone should have gender equality, security from conflict and disasters, and be able to participate in social and political life. Below you’ll find a wide selection of reports and research papers on the programming and advocacy we undertake to achieve these aims.

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In 2017, extreme hunger was the defining humanitarian crisis, with four countries on the brink of famine and 30 million people in dire need of food assistance for survival. International …
Fighting inequality in the time of Covid-19 Report
COVID-19 hit a world woefully unprepared to fight it, because countries had failed to choose policies to fight inequality. Only one in six countries assessed for the CRI Index 2020 …
Confronting Carbon Inequality
In the 25 years from 1990 to 2015, annual global carbon emissions grew by 60%, approximately doubling total global cumulative emissions. This has brought the world perilously close to exceeding …
A fair 2030 target for Aotearoa report
New Zealand should greatly enhance its 2030 target under the Paris Agreement on the basis of equity. Climate finance for developing countries must play a critical part in meeting our …
Power, Profits and the Pandemic Report
The worsening inequality crisis triggered by COVID-19 is fuelled by an economic model that has allowed some of the world’s largest corporations to funnel billions of dollars in profits to …
Oxfam Aid Report
This report examines New Zealand’s overseas aid contributions against six principles of a quality aid programme that reduces inequality and poverty. The report finds that while New Zealand’s aid contribution …
Oxfam's Response to Coronavirus
As the outbreak of the novel coronavirus continues, Oxfam is gearing up its entire humanitarian aid delivery system to help the poorest and most marginalised people as they face the …
Improving Safeguarding and Culture at Oxfam
The Oxfam Confederation has developed an “Improving Safeguarding and Culture Plan” to drive its work over the next two years. The Plan builds upon our ongoing work and is strengthened …
Oxfam Report: Dignity not Destitution
An ‘Economic Rescue Plan For All’ to tackle the Coronavirus crisis and rebuild a more equal world New analysis shows the economic crisis caused by coronavirus could push over half …
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Tens of thousands of people across Zimbabwe, Malawi and Mozambique are still suffering 12 months after Cyclone Idai battered Southern Africa, warned Oxfam today. Cyclone Idai, one of the worst …
Unpaid care work
Economic inequality is out of control. In 2019, the world’s billionaires, only 2,153 people, had more wealth than 4.6 billion people. This great divide is based on a flawed and …
Forced From Home: Climate Displacement
Climate-Fuelled Displacement on the Rise Climate-fuelled disasters were the number one driver of internal displacement over the last decade – forcing an estimated 20 million people a year from their …
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Pacific Island countries have long recognised the climate crisis as the greatest threat to their futures. Drawing on the region’s strengths, values and a united Pacific voice, Pacific Island countries …
How-To-Talk-About-Climate-Change
This toolkit discusses effective communication strategies that inspire hope, build connections, develop understandings and encourage collective action. For those working on achieving meaningful action about climate change, locally and internationally, …
Build-A-Fairer-Global-Tax-System
Endless corporate tax scandals? When multinational corporations and the super-rich use tax havens to avoid paying their fair share, it is ordinary people, and especially the poorest, who pay the …

Media releases

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The latest news and media releases from Oxfam Aotearoa

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Gaza: Airdrops and sea routes are no alternative to aid delivery by land

25 NGOs call on governments to prioritise ceasefire and ground-based humanitarian aid as deaths from malnutrition and disease rise.Human rights …
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South Sudan: More than 300 people share a single water tap, as transit centres hold four times their capacity

South Sudan: More than 300 people share a single water tap, as transit centres hold four times their capacity, increasing …
Rafah, Gaza

Rafah, Gaza: Urgent Statement from CEOs of Humanitarian & Human Rights Organisations

We are appalled by the harrowing developments in Rafah, Gaza’s most populated area where 1.5 million people are sheltering as …
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Oxfam reaction to the Dutch court’s decision to stop military exports to Israel

Oxfam Novib, together with PAX, and the Rights Forum organizations, has won a lawsuit against the Dutch Government for exporting …
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UNRWA funding cuts threaten Palestinian lives in Gaza and region, say 20 NGOs

Oxfam, together with 19 other aid organizations, is deeply concerned and outraged that some of the largest donors have suspended …
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Wealth of five richest men doubles since 2020 as five billion people made poorer in “decade of division,” says Oxfam

Fortunes of five richest men have shot up by 114 percent since 2020. Oxfam predicts the world could have its …
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Daily death rate in Gaza higher than any other major 21st Century conflict

Israeli military killing 250 Palestinians per day with many more lives at risk from hunger, disease and coldIsrael’s military is …
Nature

Closing Time report: NGOs and unions unite behind call for urgent phaseout of fossil fuel production in Aotearoa

While the Government plans new oil and gas exploration, Oxfam Aotearoa has published a new report saying it’s time to …