In 2000, Africa had no billionaires. Today it has 23 whose, combined wealth has soared by 56% in just the past five years, reaching a staggering $112.6 billion. Africa’s richest 5% hold nearly $4 ...

US Government Foreign Assistance Cuts Examples of Impact The abrupt cuts to U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) funding has sent shockwaves through humanitarian systems worldwide, ...

Sudan crisis, two years on Two years into Sudan’s brutal war, the humanitarian catastrophe has engulfed the entire country, spilled over across the region, and shows no signs of abating. Thousands ...

The countries most affected by climate change are poor, rely heavily on agriculture for income, and are vulnerable to extreme weather -- but they are also the least responsible for the greenhouse ...

In reaction to the Trump administration’s re-designation of Yemen’s Houthis as a terrorist organization, Oxfam America’s Director of Peace & Security Scott Paul said: “The Trump administration’s ...

Oxfam predicts there will be at least five trillionaires a decade from now. 204 new billionaires were minted in 2024, nearly four every week. Oxfam estimates sixty percent of billionaire wealth is now ...

Oxfam examines what this means for the U.S. and the world. For years, Oxfam—along with advocates and activists around the world—has argued that extreme concentration of wealth is leading to extreme ...

The richest 1% have used their share of the annual global carbon budget —the amount of CO2 that can be added to the atmosphere without pushing the world beyond 1.5°C of warming— within the first 10 ...

The world is highly unequal. So what are global wealth inequality and income inequality? Explore these key terms and more.

Fifty of the world’s richest billionaires on average produce more carbon through their investments, private jets and yachts in just over an hour and a half than the average person does in their entire ...

Israeli explosive weapons hit civilian infrastructure in Gaza - including schools, hospitals and aid distribution points - once every three hours. More women and children have been killed in Gaza by ...

The Investor Case for Fighting Inequality: How Inequality Harms Investors and What Investors Should Do About It. In the paper, Rights CoLab and Oxfam have attempted to capture literature that seeks to ...