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Oxfam

April 2024

  • Stack of old clothes to discard (declutter) or keep.

    M&S and Oxfam trial postal donation bags for ‘unwearable’ clothes

    Scheme is part of effort to reduce ‘staggering’ quantities of textiles going to landfill or incinerator

January 2024

  • Shows smoke billowing over Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip during Israeli bombardment

    Gaza aid is welcome, but a ceasefire is vital

    Letter: Aleema Shivji of Oxfam GB says aid cannot be delivered effectively while bombing continues and supplies are rejected
  • Demonstrators hold a homemade sign saying Tax the Rich in downtown Davos, Switzerland, on January 14.

    World’s five richest men double their money as poorest get poorer

    Oxfam predicts first trillionaire within a decade, with gap between rich and poor likely to increase
  • Harry Triguboff, Gina Rinehart and Andrew Forrest

    Inequality reporting
    Three richest Australians’ combined wealth doubles since 2020 at $1.5m an hour – Oxfam

    Report says combined fortunes of Gina Rinehart, Andrew Forrest and Harry Triguboff doubled between 2020 and 2023, while one in eight Australians live in poverty

December 2023

  • An Oxfam store sign.

    Oxfam’s first ever strike suspended after charity offers ‘improved pay deal’

  • An Oxfam charity shop

    Oxfam shop and office workers strike for first time

October 2023

  • Oxfam shop

    Oxfam workers in UK to hold strike ballot over ‘poverty pay’

  • Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah

    Never in Oxfam’s history have we seen a humanitarian crisis like the one in Gaza

    Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah

September 2023

  • Sudanese refugees wait for the distribution of UN aid at a camp in Adre, Chad, on 19 September 2023.

    UN refugee convention works and is as necessary as ever

    Letters: Leaders of charities and NGOs respond to Suella Braverman’s recent comments attacking the refugee convention in the US

August 2023

  • Afghan children receive medical treatment for malnutrition at a hospital in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

    UK aid budget cuts are ‘death sentence’ for world’s most vulnerable children

    Save the Children and Oxfam urge government to restore aid budget back to 0.7% of national income

July 2023

  • A child drops used clothing items into a ‘shwop’ box at a branch of Marks & Spencer.

    M&S offers money off children’s clothes in exchange for used school uniforms

    Promotion is designed to help parents who are struggling to afford clothes amid cost of living crisis

June 2023

  • Hand with oxygen monitor on finger

    UK aid should not fund private hospitals in developing countries, says Oxfam

    Development charity says patients denied treatment or held hostage until fees paid in private facilities in India and Kenya
  • Oxfam GB’s charitable objects require it to work to eliminate ‘discrimination on the grounds of race, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religion’.

    Watchdog considers action over Oxfam cartoon of anti-trans ‘hate groups’

    Oxfam International apologised and re-edited cartoon alleged to include racial stereotyping and JK Rowling attack
  • Sultan Al Jaber

    Climate crisis: rich nations undermining work to help poor countries, research suggests

    Oxfam report says only $11.5bn (£9.2bn) of climate finance in 2020 devoted to helping vulnerable states

May 2023

  • Oxfam volunteer Lesley organising merchandise in the onsite Oxfam shop at the Glastonbury festival in 2019.

    From Glastonbury chocolate to refurb computers: how you can help charities in the UK cost of living crisis

    Money is tight as household bills soar but there are still ways to make a difference

March 2023

  • A sign outside an Oxfam shop in south London

    Is Oxfam’s language guide taking sides in the culture war?

  • Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah

    Oxfam’s job is to end poverty – we refuse to be distracted by the toxic culture wars

    Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah

February 2023

  • Aboriginal flag

    Leading Australian social justice bodies unite to back Indigenous voice to parliament referendum

  • Designer Sandy Powell models a purple 1960s Christian Dior suit in Oxfam’s Fashion Fighting Poverty show at London fashion week.

    Secondhand style strides forward in Oxfam’s London fashion week show

January 2023

  • Super-yachts moored at Hercules Port in Monaco.

    Joseph Stiglitz: tax high earners at 70% to tackle widening inequality

    Nobel prize-winning economist calls for new top rate of income tax and 2-3% wealth tax on fortunes
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