Press Releases

Women gathering water after cyclone amphan

One in five water boreholes we dig now is dry or unfit for humans to drink – Oxfam

Oxfam water engineers are having to drill deeper, more expensive and harder-to-maintain water boreholes used by some of the poorest communities around the world, more often now only to find dry,…

Bangladesh’s Monsoon: At least five killed in Cox’s Bazar camps due to flooding and landslides – Oxfam responds

“Nearly 300,000 people across 60 union parishads in Cox’s Bazar have been impacted. The monsoon floods lent another hard blow to hundreds of thousands of refugees already recovering from the fury and…

What She Makes - Bangladesh

Almost Two-Thirds of Women’s Working Hours Excluded from GDP Globally

A staggering sixty-five per cent of women’s working hours are unpaid every week and excluded from official measures of economic activity, an Oxfam report has found. Radical Pathways Beyond GDP …

ICU in the world's largest makeshift COVID hospital

Poor people being bypassed or bankrupted as rich countries pour development billions into private healthcare

Investments of taxpayers’ money into dodgy deals, profiteering and exploitation, health scandals and human rights abuses —all with little or no accountability. This includes private hospitals…

Climate Shadow Finance PR

Rich countries’ continued failure to honor their $100 billon climate finance promise threatens negotiations and undermines climate action

As global greenhouse emissions continue to rise, and climate change wreaks more havoc upon the people and places least responsible for the problem, rich polluting countries are now three years…

Oxfam response in Bangladesh

Oxfam responds in Bangladesh and Myanmar as Cyclone Mocha leaves a trail of destruction

Super cyclonic storm Mocha made landfall in Myanmar’s Rakhine state area, reaching a speed of 250 km/h, and crossing low-lying areas including Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh on Sunday. As per the…

As a member of a women's group involved in mangrove restoration, Rowena Obina plants saplings as part of a project to safeguard her community from intense storms and foster the growth of fish, shellfish, and other marine creatures.

ADB’s ‘innovative finance facility for climate’ set to worsen people’s suffering

Cox’s Bazar camp fire: Oxfam responding with food and shelter

A fire that swept through Rohingya refugee camps of Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, on Sunday has left 12000 people homeless and in urgent need of shelter, water, sanitation, and medical services. Oxfam is…

Companies and civil society showcase the benefits of fair and sustainable business practices at the Asia Inclusive & Responsible Business Forum

Leaders from private sector and civil society, at the Asia Inclusive…

Pandemic Sharpens Inequality Among the Vulnerable in Asia

The COVID-19 pandemic has sharpened inequality among vulnerable communities in Asia. Workers in the informal economy, such as factory workers, home-based workers, sex workers, street vendors,…