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Middle East Crisis: the latest
It has been over a year since the conflict in Gaza escalated — a year of families living without their homes, their loved ones or the basic supplies they need to survive.
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Youth voices from 15 years of the Gaza blockade
2022 marks 15 years of the Gaza blockade, which continues to prevent young people from achieving their dreams and living...
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Beyond Covid-19: could we create a more sustainable world?
What will the world’s response to the COVID-19 crisis mean for the two defining and interconnected challenges of our age:...
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Turning your emergency donation into instant aid with Blockchain
New Blockchain technology has the potential to deliver emergency cash transfers in a faster, cheaper and more transparent fashion than...
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Dabessa’s Story
Dabessa and his wife Lelisse are members of the Oromo ethnic community in Ethiopia. After nine long years of persecution,...
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Lucy’s Story
Originally from South Sudan, Lucy has lived in Australia since 1991. She was separated from her three-year-old daughter Susan in...
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Syria: Civilians in urgent need as violence escalates in Ghouta
"I can hear children crying as they listen to the thunderous shelling and mortars". Moutaz Adham, Oxfam's Country Director, Syria...
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Rohingya refugee mothers tell their story
More than half of the 626,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are women and girls. There are 120,000 pregnant women and...
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The latest push for peace in South Sudan: we must end this war.
It's been five years since civil war broke out in South Sudan. Earlier this year, Oxfam International's Executive Director, Winnie...
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We must not fail the Rohingya again
Oxfam International Executive Director, Winnie Byanyima, calls on the international community to plug the funding aid gap, and international leaders...
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Bearing witness on Manus Island
Oxfam Australia's Humanitarian Lead, Meg Quartermaine, traveled to Manus Island as part of an Australian delegation of INGOs to explore...
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“I am worried about my children. What will they eat?”
For more than 16 months, Ethiopia has been in drought. Water reserves are running out, crops are burnt and dying,...
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How we’re scraping by through the Yemen war
With the international media focused on the war in Syria, the Yemeni crisis is largely forgotten. The country is under...
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