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Oxfam Reaction to 2025 Global Report on Food Crises: Oxfam warns of “a world veering off course, starving by design”

Stuart Mitchell

The recently released “2025 Global Report on Food Crises” (GRFC), led by the Food Security Information Network (FSIN), says that 295 million people around the world are now experiencing acute hunger – twice as many as in 2020 and marking the sixth consecutive annual increase. Reacting to the report, Oxfam Global Food and Economic Security Lead, Emily Farr, said:  “This evidence presents an unflinching picture of a world veering off course. Hunger is no longer just a tragic byproduct of conflict—it is increasingly being wielded as its very weapon. In…

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Hey Girls Teams Up with Oxfam to Tackle Period Poverty

Stuart Mitchell

We’re excited to share that Hey Girls has joined forces with Oxfam to help make period products more accessible and affordable across the UK.This partnership helps us expand our reach and continue the fight for period dignity. You can now find our sustainable range of organic cotton pads, liners and tampons in selected Oxfam high street shops and on the Oxfam Online Shop. As always, for every pack you buy, we donate one to someone in need through our ‘buy one, donate one’ model. Oxfam is a leading voice in…

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Tony’s Chocolonely Partners With Oxfam And Glastonbury Festival For A Chance To Win Glastonbury Tickets And Raise Money To Fight Poverty

Stuart Mitchell

Tony’s Chocolonely is teaming up with Oxfam and Glastonbury for a third year running, launching limited edition bars that raise money to help Oxfam fight poverty and inequality around the world and offer fans the chance to win tickets to Glastonbury Festival. Tony’s Chocolonely, the impact brand on a mission to end exploitation in cocoa, is once more giving away five pairs of tickets to Glastonbury Festival. The tickets will be hidden in limited-edition bars on sale exclusively at Oxfam stores and the Oxfam online shop. Three years ago, Tony’s,…

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CEOs of major aid groups in Gaza warn aid system is collapsing

Stuart Mitchell

After 18 months of war, a staggering toll on civilians and aid workers, and now a six-week total siege, the humanitarian aid system in Gaza is facing total collapse with the CEOs of 12 major aid organisations making an urgent plea: let us do our jobs.  A new humanitarian access survey of 43 international and Palestinian aid organisations working in Gaza found nearly all of them – 95% – have had to suspend or dramatically cut services since the ceasefire ended one month ago on 18 March, with widespread and…

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Hunger skyrockets by nearly 80 percent in Eastern and Southern Africa over past five years amidst worsening water crisis

Stuart Mitchell

The climate crisis has dramatically worsened water scarcity in Eastern and Southern Africa over the past few decades, leaving nearly 116 million people – or 40 percent of the population – without safe drinking water, according to a new Oxfam report. Climate change is supercharging extreme weather events like droughts, cyclones and flash floods, and has led to the disappearance of more than 90 percent of Africa’s tropical glaciers and the depletion of groundwater. This has had knock-on effects on Africa’s small-scale farmers, pastoralists and fisherpersons leaving millions without basic…

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