Press releases

Responding to Thursday's FEWSNET

In response to Primark's statement on compensation for people affected by the Bangladesh Savar building collapse.

The world risks failing the people of Syria as the scale of suffering increases and the humanitarian fall-out from the crisis worsens by the day.

In reaction to the Savar building collapse in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Oxfam country director in Bangladesh, Gareth Price-Jones said:

Governments must move quickly at this year’s first UN climate change meeting to plug the gaping deficit of funds to help developing countries adapt to climate change and lower their emissions.

Northern Mali will descend to emergency levels of food insecurity in less than two months if the security situation and humanitarian access to vulnerable communities do not improve.

The Government of Guatemala has recognized three commitments to the communities evicted from Polochic Valley. The campaign organized by Oxfam and Vamos al Grano has generated 107,000 signatures in support of the cause.

The biggest chocolate maker in the world, Mondelēz International, has agreed to take steps to address inequality facing women in their cocoa supply chains following pressure from consumers as part of the international aid agency Oxfam’s Behind the Brands campaign.

On 21 April, the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck Ya’an, Sichuan has left 186 people dead, 21 missing and 11,393 injured, 968 of them seriously. Oxfam has begun distributing emergency relief supplies.

After a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Lushan County in Sichuan this morning, leaving more than 156 people dead and 5,500 people injured, Oxfam has sent an assessment team and is transferring emergency supplies to those affected.