Music, food and dressing up - sounded like a party to me! Except for my fellow Oxfam volunteers and me, one drizzly Sunday in Manchester, the party was at Manchester City's ground and the music came courtesy of huge Oxfam supporters Coldplay. We did dress up, and we were there to talk about food - specifically, the broken food system. GROWing for Coldplay Having been a long-time Oxfam campaigner, the opportunity to share the...

"I don't think we in Britain talk enough about the food crisis facing Chad and the rest of the Sahel region, but it's very important we understand the stakes are high..." - Ivan Lewis, Shadow Minister for International Development 18 million people. It's hard to get your head around that number. It's even harder to imagine them all without enough food to eat. However, this is the reality for 18 million...

A vast labyrinth of 250,000 books, entitled aMAZEme, has been installed on The Clore Ballroom in the Royal Festival Hall, London between 31 July - 25 August, as part of Southbank Centre's Festival of the World with Mastercard. The project has been created by Brazilian artists Marcos Saboya and Gualter Pupo, in collaboration with production company HungryMan. Inspired by the writer and educator JL Borges, the maze forms...

Hundreds of people continue to arrive each day in Kibati. 2 million people are now displaced across the DRC; the highest figure the country has seen since 2009. ...

by Lisa Rutherford, Oxfam UK Campaigns Manager, in New York ...

For two years I was a dad. Then a man pulled out an illegal gun and started firing. ...

by Lisa Rutherford, UK Campaigns Manager, Oxfam GB in New York City ...

For the past year, large parts of the southern province of Abyan have been virtual no-go zones, controlled by militant groups.  More than 200,000 people fled their homes, seeking refuge in temporary schools in the southern port of Aden, and remote villages near Abyan. Then in mid-June, the Government of Yemen announced it had retaken control of the capital of Abyan, Zinjibar and other key towns. Families who were displaced during...

Radical Muslim clerics might be the least likely people to speak out against the injustices facing women in the Arab world. Yet in the patriarchal society of Jordan, religious leaders are challenging this perception and boldly speaking out to help combat violence against women.   In Irbid in northern Jordan, the call to prayer reverberates against the backdrop of the shelling from across the Syrian border, where forces pound nearby...