The richest 1 percent of Peruvians captured 42 percent of all new wealth created between 2019 and 2025, while the poorest 50 percent of the population got 1.4 percent, reveals new analysis by Oxfam.

Countries locked into International Monetary Fund (IMF) austerity programs are also, on average, around twice as vulnerable to the economic fallout from the US and Israel’s war against Iran and the ...

In response to the outcome of the pre-COP summit in Fiji, Oxfam Climate Policy Lead Nafkote Dabi said: “These talks were an underwhelming precursor to the summit in Türkiye next month. The absence of ...

My name is Meg Otieno Atieli and I’m Oxfam International’s new Culture Lead. Our ambition is to build on the work already done and to achieve a workplace culture that genuinely models Oxfam’s values ...

“What is particularly worrying in India’s case is that economic inequality is being added to a society that is already fractured along the lines of caste, religion, region and gender.” While India is ...

On January 12, 2010, a devastating earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 struck Haiti. More than 220,000 people were killed and over 300,000 injured. The massive earthquake, the biggest the region had ...

The wealth of the world’s 10 richest men has doubled since the pandemic began. The incomes of 99% of humanity are worse off because of COVID-19. Widening economic, gender, and racial inequalities—as ...

Four years after the full-scale Russian invasion in 2022, Ukraine’s humanitarian response continues to be shaped by the people and organizations closest to the communities affected by the war. In this ...

Almost half of the world’s wealth is now owned by just one percent of the population, and seven out of ten people live in countries where economic inequality has increased in the last 30 years. The ...

Billionaire wealth has risen three times faster in 2024 than in 2023. At least five trillionaires are now expected within a decade. Meanwhile, the number of people living in poverty has barely changed ...

Authors: Rebecca Riddell, Nabil Ahmed, Alex Maitland, Max Lawson and Anjela Taneja. Contributing authors : Alex Bush, Alexandre Poidatz, Andrew Gogo, Anthony Kamande ...

Multilateral efforts are failing to adequately respond to critical global challenges, including the climate crisis and persistent poverty and inequality. While some have blamed the deadlock solely on ...