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Ideas for a Pro-Poor and Pro-Women Approach to COVID-19

Ideas for a Pro-Poor and Pro-Women Approach to COVID-19

Economic and gender inequalities play out in a public health crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic. How can local governments respond with a pro-poor, pro-women approach? Here's a personal opinion piece by our regional director, Lan Mercado.
Time to care and build a fairer Asia

Time to care and build a fairer Asia

Care work is work that’s essential for our societies to survive, prosper and grow. It is the hidden engine that runs our economies.
Oxfam in Asia - Press Release - Biggest-ever waste treatment plant in a refugee camp

Biggest-ever waste treatment plant in a refugee camp is ‘step forward’ for safer human waste disposal in emergencies

Oxfam has opened the largest human waste treatment plant ever built in a refugee camp, in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. The industrial-scale plant, funded by the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, can process the waste of 150,000 people.