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Over 60 activists, social movements, and women food producers that have gathered in Maputo, Mozambique for Women Food Convening 2023 conference say that the current global food system is exploitative, broken, unjust, marginalises women and exacerbates gender inequalities and hunger particularly in low-income countries.

Remarkable progress has been made in the last ten years toward achieving the education-related Millennium Development Goals.

At a time of great need, aid and other forms of development cooperation are at risk. Representatives from donor countries and developing countries alike will meet at the end of 2016 to discuss the way forward. The direction they take has the potential to affect millions of lives, for better or worse.

Climate change is already negatively affecting the lives and livelihoods of poor men and women.

Emma Seery, Oxfam's spokesperson, said:

Big business has the power to make or break a fair and safe global deal to fight climate change in December 2009.

BioAmitabh Behar, Executive Director of Oxfam International, is a global civil society leader, with decades of experience in human rights, economic inequalities, governance accountability, philanthropy, democracy, social justice and building citizen participation. Prior to this role, he was the Chief Executive Officer of Oxfam India. Mr. Behar was the Vice Chair of the Board of CIVICUS, a global alliance of civil society organisations and activists dedicated to strengthening citizen action and civil society across the globe. He has also served as…

As the international community mobilizes in response to global climatic changes, climate funds must ensure the equitable and effective allocation of funds for the world’s most vulnerable po

Governments are legally bound to ensure the right to food for all. Nevertheless, today there are one billion hungry people in the world and millions more are food insecure.

In reaction to the Security Council passing its Coronavirus Ceasefire Resolution, Oxfam’s Head of Humanitarian Campaigns and Advocacy, Fionna Smyth, said: “The UN Security Council’s unanimous vote to support the UN Secretary Generals call for a global ceasefire and to help fight COVID-19 is welcome —and is long overdue."