Oxfam blog

Stories, opinions and updates from across Oxfam’s work written by staff, partner organisations and guest authors. Explore reflections on global justice and inequality, insight from campaigns and communities, and ideas on how people can take action for change.

Civil defence workers and residents search through the rubble of collapsed buildings

9 Feb 2023

Turkey-Syria: How can I help?
Civilian houses destroyed with groups of people stood around looking at the rubble.

31 Jan 2023

UK arms sales and the human impact in Yemen
An image of an alarm clock with the words 'we don't all have the same 24 hours' by it.

27 Jan 2023

Billionaires' wealth could stop the East Africa food crisis every 24 hours
An older man wearing a navy checked shirt and a pale cardigan is holding a basket of produce in a shop whilst looking at the back of a box

19 Jan 2023

Corporate profits are driving the cost-of-living crisis
A large white super yacht in a marina with a helicopter on a landing platform near the top of the yacht. In the foreground is a smaller white boat with the man on board looking at the super yacht.

18 Jan 2023

Why the super-rich pay lower taxes than most people
A group of women at a demonstration holding a large banner that reads "Tax billionaires, not workers! Wealth tax now!" The foreground sponsor logo is for the Asian Peoples' Movement on Debt and Development.

16 Jan 2023

Taxing the super-rich has collapsed and it needs to change
A view from above of flooding in Balochistan in Pakistan

11 Jan 2023

Climate change and flooding
Someone reaches for a stack of books on a display

3 Jan 2023

Will you take on The Oxfam Reading Challenge?
A rainbow coloured protest sign that says 'enough' on it.

2 Dec 2022

Trade unions are key to making sure women are free from financial abuse
The hands of a man and a woman doing their finances with a calculator, computer and some papers.

30 Nov 2022

Triple Jeopardy: women of colour, austerity and the cost-of-living crisis

25 Nov 2022

Governments' economic policies are a form of gender-based violence
A map of East Africa focused on Somalia, South Sudan, Kenya and Ethiopia

3 Oct 2022

Cutting taxes for the rich is unfair and doesn't tackle poverty - here's why