Oxfam stunt in front of the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium, calling for EU policies as part of the campaign ‘food not fuel’.
The European Union office of Oxfam International is based in Brussels. We advocate for EU policies that fight the inequality keeping people locked in a cycle of poverty.
We want just and fairer economies. We strive for gender justice and for the rights of women and girls in all their diversity. We fight for climate justice and create safe spaces that allow people to hold the powerful to account. Rooted in communities, we tackle the causes and consequences of disaster and conflict.
Oxfam had a fleet of campaigning adbikes and pedicabs at the COP26 demo as part of the global day of action for Climate Justice on the 6th of November, 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo: Andy Aitchison/Oxfam)
Europe must lead on climate action
Oxfam advocates for the EU to step up its climate action. It must fulfil its promise to achieve climate neutrality by 2050, increase funding for international action to fight the climate emergency and not promote false climate solutions which fuel hunger by incentivising the use of land to produce bioenergy.
Oxfam advocates for the EU to be a global champion for civic space.
Civic space enables citizens to speak out against power, peacefully protest, express their needs, interests, and concerns, and propose and negotiate solutions.
The EU made new rules to force large companies to police their global value chains for environmental and human rights risks. Oxfam is advocating for these rules to must make companies accountable for the damage they cause people and the planet.
Natalia Kyselova at Oxfam's partner Rural Women's Business Network (RWBN) greenhouse. The purpose of the RWBN is to protect the rights and interests of rural women, to support their empowerment, equal economic participation, leadership, access to education and health care, and participation in local governments’ decision making processes. (Photo: Kieran Doherty/Oxfam)
Advancing Gender Justice in EU Foreign Policy
The EU and EU countries must commit to a feminist foreign policy. This means an intersectional feminist approach which puts gender, racial, economic and climate justice at its heart, prioritises decolonisation and puts the voices of those who have historically been least represented at the centre of policymaking.
Read about Oxfam's work advocating for an EU feminist foreign policy.
The EU plays a role to fix global health challenges, but some EU policies make it harder to access healthcare and medicines. The EU must play its part in ensuring that everyone can access healthcare.
Read more about Oxfam's work advocating for equal access to healthcare.
The global food system is broken. We need fair and sustainable food systems. The EU can support by strengthening food production at a local level in poorer countries and promoting the rights of farmers, especially women farmers, who are key in the fight against hunger and poverty.
Read about Oxfam's work in influencing the EU to fix the global food system.
Some of the children and grandchildren of María Isabel Cortés and Benjamín Peña sitting on the porch of their home. (Photo: Samuel Nacar/Oxfam Intermón)
A Relaunch of EU-Latin America Relations
The EU must relaunch its relationship with Latin America. The relationship must focus on ending inequality in the world’s most unequal region.
Oxfam advocates for the EU to contribute to a fairer tax system to reduce inequality between the rich and poor. Making the super-rich and the most profitable corporations pay their fair share are essential to achieving a fairer tax system.
EU development aid is for ending poverty, reducing inequality, and promoting gender justice. Oxfam advocates for the EU to make sure that aid serves these ends and that there is enough money in the aid pot to do so.
Read more about Oxfam's work to influence the EU's development aid policies.
Nadiya Vasylivna received a latrine from Oxfam as part of its response to the Ukraine conflict, which includes repairing water and sanitation facilities, distributing hygiene kits, and providing essential non-food items in war-affected areas. (Photo: Kieran Doherty/Oxfam)
Putting People First in Conflict and Crisis
Humanitarian needs around the world are outpacing available funding. The EU must take the right response when humanitarian crises hit, be they natural disasters or conflicts, while spearheading processes to ensure an effective and locally-led humanitarian response and ensuring international law is always upheld.
Read about Oxfam's work to influence the EU to put people first in conflict and crises.
The EU and EU countries must work together to make rules that fairly share the responsibility of welcoming people across Europe. They must stop striking up migration deals and using aid to outsource their responsibility. They must end pushbacks and rights violations at Europe’s borders.
Read more about Oxfam's work on influencing the EU's migration and asylum response.
Contact information
Oxfam International EU Office | Mundo Madou, Avenue des Arts 7-8, 1210 Brussels | Belgium
Tel: + 32 2 329 01 50
For general enquiries: eu@oxfam.org
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Twitter: @OxfamEU
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