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Humanity’s challenge in the 21st century is to eradicate poverty and achieve a prosperity for all within the means of the planet’s limited natural resources. In the run-up to Rio+2

The FSNAU has announced that the famine status in Somalia has ended.

In response to the High-level Panel on Global Sustainability report presented to the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in Addis Ababa today, Sarah Best of Oxfam said:

Senait Gebregziabher, Oxfam Country Director for Somalia said:

Oistein Thorsen, humanitarian campaigner at Oxfam International said:

The gains made and the lives saved through flood-relief activities in Pakistan are in jeopardy as critical emergency-response supplies run low

Kirsten Hagon, Oxfam’s Head of Office in New York said:

A group of global artists, activists and business leaders have signed a joint letter urging world leaders to step up their response to the famine in the Horn of Africa. They call on them to act “without reservation, prevarication or equivocation” when they meet at an emergency summit in Rome today.

The UN announcing famine in parts of Somalia, the first in the region in the 21st century, must be an urgent wake up call to the rest of the world, Oxfam said.

Oxfam reaction to UN Security Council’s Resolution on the new Peace Keeping Mission

Kirsten Hagon, Head of Oxfam's Office in New York said: