Press Releases

Oxfam in Asia - Press Release - South Asia Floods

Deadly floods continue to torment millions; Oxfam responds

Deadly floods and landslides have already killed 300 people and forced over 12 million more from their homes, as the disaster continues to rip through South Asia.

Oxfam in Asia - Press Release - ADB Annual Meetings Fiji 2019

Financing the future we need

While the threats and risks the Asia Pacific face from climate change are well known, the recent IPCC report tells us the worst is yet to come. We urge Asia Pacific leaders gathering at the…

Urgent action needed for Asia's rice farmers

Decisive and urgent action needed to save Asian rice and small-holder farmers

The Asian rice sector is in a deep crisis with worsening inequality and declining productivity according to a new report by Oxfam in Asia — ‘Unfair Harvest- State of Rice in Asia’.

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…

Oxfam Davos 2019 Press Release

Billionaire fortunes grew by $2.5 billion a day last year as poorest saw their wealth fall

Billionaire fortunes increased by 12 percent last year – or $2.5 billion a day - while the 3.8 billion people who make up the poorest half of humanity saw their wealth decline by 11 percent…

Oxfam ready to respond as hundreds killed after tsunami in Indonesia’s Sunda Strait

Oxfam ready to respond as hundreds killed after tsunami in Indonesia’s Sunda Strait

Oxfam is getting ready to respond to tsunami-affected communities in Indonesia’s Sunda Strait, with reports that more than 200 people have died and hundreds more injured following a tsunami that…

Oxfam - Powering the transition: World Bank and other IFI energy lending in Asia

Development banks still pouring billions into fossil fuels in climate-vulnerable Asian countries

Oxfam urges 3 world's biggest development banks to drop their support for dirty energy projects and focus on kick-starting a clean energy revolution.

Hotter hungrier world - Oxfam

Rising temperatures will push millions of people into poverty unless governments take swift action

Climate change has set our planet on fire, millions are already feeling the impacts, and the IPCC just showed that things can get much worse.

Ricefield turned into a river in Amulung, Cagayan September 15 2018 (Photo: Oxfam/April Ann Bulanadi)

Oxfam, CDRC prioritize safe Water and shelter materials in distribution efforts

Oxfam joined the Citizens' Disaster Response Center, and Cagayan Valley Disaster Response Center to provide on-site situational updates and conduct rapid needs assessments of areas impacted byTyphoon…

After Ompong landfall in Tuguegerao City. Photo: April Abello-Bulanadi/Oxfam Philippines

Oxfam and local partners witness Ompong’s “destructive force”– disaster preparedness committees activated

The joint assessment teams of Oxfam and its partner, Citizens’ Disaster Response Center (CDRC), witnessed the destructive force of Ompong, known internationally as Super Typhoon Mangkhut.