Policy Papers

Pakistan is one of the world’s most hazard-prone countries, with each humanitarian crisis costing lives and money and deepening the alarming levels of poverty and malnutrition.

Over the past century, powerful food and beverage companies have enjoyed unprecedented commercial success.

What progress has been made towards ending violence against women worldwide?

Farmers and herders in arid regions of Africa face serious challenges in adapting to climate change and variability.

This new Oxfam report, based on research in Viet Nam, explores the reality on the ground in Unilever’s operations and wider supply chain, and compares the findings with the company's high-l

With conflict escalating in Mali, the aid effort to help some 145,000 refugees living in camps across remote, poor areas of the Sahel could become overwhelmed unless there is a step-change

As the third anniversary of the January 2010 earthquake, which brought so much destruction to Haiti, approaches,

A recent wave of large-scale land acquisitions and other commercial investment in agriculture has raised concerns that small-scale producers are being marginalized.

The ceasefire agreed between the Government of Israel and Hamas on 21 November 2012, following the recent military escalation in Gaza and southern Israel, provides an unprecedented opportun

What is Violence Against Women? Why does it happen? What does it have to do with development? What does Oxfam do to end violence against women?