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Atsede Getaneth from Ethiopia

“I might not survive this pandemic but right now I am their mother”

A Mother’s Day Tribute to Atsede Getaneth By Tigist Gebru “I might not even survive this pandemic but right now, …
Darren Brunk

Love in the time of COVID

LEFT: Oxfam humanitarian specialist Darren Brunk; RIGHT: Oxfam New Zealand’s partner, the Tonga National Youth Congress put together a team …
Pandemics know no borders. Neither does compassion.

Pandemics know no borders. Neither does compassion.

Sometimes a week can feel like a very long time. As we watch the global spread of coronavirus and see …
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How To Wash Your Hands Video

Washing hands saves lives, put your hands together and learn how. Oxfam has been providing safe clean water and helping …
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Be part of something big

Volunteering for Oxfam Trailwalker is a unique experience; it’s fun, exciting, emotional, and rewarding. As a volunteer, you get to …
Lou Bird, Lalawa

Farmers helping farmers

A Kiwi sharing skills in Timor-Leste Lou Bird, a Kiwi ex-farmer and a Volunteer Service Abroad (VSA) volunteer, is working …
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Edgecumbe woman takes on Oxfam’s 100km trailwalker for the third time

Edgecumbe local Kate Casey (and third time Oxfam Trailwalker participant) lost her home and most of her possessions when a …
Result Project, Tonga

PACIFIC GAME CHANGERS

Christine Nurminen, left, with members of Oxfam’s local partner Touching the Untouchables (TTU) and OiPNG team. Henganofi district, Highlands PNG …
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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.

Public Good or Private Wealth?
Public good or private wealth?
Our economy is broken, with hundreds of millions of people living in extreme poverty while huge rewards go to those at the very top. Universal health, education and other public …
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The Commitment to Reducing Inequality Index 2018
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In 2015, the leaders of 193 governments promised to reduce inequality under Goal 10 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Without reducing inequality, meeting SDG 1 to eliminate poverty will …
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Prescription for Poverty
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New Oxfam research shows that four pharmaceutical corporations—Abbott, Johnson & Johnson, Merck & Co. (also known as MSD), and Pfizer—systematically stash their profits in overseas tax havens. They appear to …
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Ripe For Change
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Inequality is rampant across the global economy, and the agro-food sector is no exception. At the top, big supermarkets and other corporate food giants dominate global food markets, allowing them …
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Reward Work, Not Wealth
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Last year saw the biggest increase in billionaires in history, one more every two days. This huge increase could have ended global extreme poverty seven times over. 82% of all …
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Uprooted by climate change: responding to the growing risk of displacement
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Climate change is already forcing people from their land and homes, and putting many more at risk of displacement in the future. Supercharged storms, more intense droughts, rising seas and …
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The Commitment to Reducing Inequality Index: A new global ranking of governments based on what they are doing to tackle the gap between rich and poor
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In 2015, the leaders of 193 governments promised to reduce inequality as part of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Without reducing inequality, meeting the SDG to eliminate poverty will be …
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Making Tax Vanish – How the practices of consumer goods MNC RB show that the international tax system is broken
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Big business is able to take advantage of loopholes in global tax laws and avoid tax on a massive scale. This deprives governments around the world of the money they …
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An economy that works for women
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Women’s economic empowerment could reduce poverty for everyone. In order to achieve it, we need to first fix the current broken economic model which is undermining gender equality and causing …
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Towards a more equal Indonesia
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The gap between the richest and the rest in Indonesia has grown faster in the past two decades than in any other country in South-East Asia. The four richest men …
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An economy for the 99%
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New estimates show that just eight men own the same wealth as the poorest half of the world. As growth benefits the richest, the rest of society – especially the …
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After Paris – Climate finance in the Pacific Islands
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Pacific island countries are working hard to address the escalating realities of climate change, including the impact on land, livelihoods, and on the food and water security of their most …
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Feeding Climate Change
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The Paris Agreement marked a major breakthrough in support for climate action from many parts of the business community, including from key actors in the food and beverage sector. But …
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What Will Become of Us?
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About 60 million people across Southern Africa and the Horn, Central America, and the Pacific face worsening hunger and poverty due to droughts and crop failures in 2014–15 that have …
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Women and the 1%
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The rise of extreme economic inequality is a serious blow to the fight against gender inequality and a threat to women’s rights. Women’s economic empowerment has the potential to transform …
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Media releases

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The latest news and media releases from Oxfam Aotearoa

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Starvation as weapon of war being used against Gaza civilians

Starvation as weapon of war being used against Gaza civilians – Oxfam Just 2 per cent of usual food delivered …
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G20 skates over the big issues of poverty, inequality and climate

In response to the G20 communique, Oxfam says: ‘The G20 has failed to meet the huge challenges our world faces. They …
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Millionaires, economists, and eminent politicians implore the G20 to tax the super-rich

In the last decade, billionaires around the world have more than doubled their wealth, from $5.6 to $11.8 trillion. We …
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Unfair share report: Unequal climate finance to East Africa hunger crisis

Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia and South Sudan have incurred $7.4bn of livestock losses alone as a result of climate change Despite …
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Water dilemmas: The cascading impacts of water insecurity in a heating world

Climate-induced water insecurity poses one of the biggest threats to humanity and will lead to more hunger, disease and displacement …
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Bangladesh’s Monsoon: At least five killed in Cox’s Bazar camps

At least five people were killed in the Cox’s Bazar Rohingya camps today, as the monsoon floods that hit Southern …
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Oxfam welcomes support from political parties for fossil fuel free Pacific: We need to stop polluting, and start paying

Oxfam Aotearoa says all major parties must show they are listening to Pacific demands on climate change ahead of this …
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Black Sea Grain Deal: Time to rethink how to feed the world

In response to Russia pulling out of the Black Sea Grain Initiative, Hanna Saarinen, Oxfam food expert, said:“While this grain …

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