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Oxfam International Media Team @newsfromoxfam.bsky.social · 3d

🚨REACTION: Oxfam on #GazaCeasefire deal: "This is a desperately needed step towards ending Israel’s genocide in Gaza. We welcome the release of Israeli hostages and unlawfully detained Palestinians." -Amitabh Behar, Executive Director.

Read our statement: oxf.am/GazaCeasefire

#Gaza #Israel

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Oxfam International Media Team @newsfromoxfam.bsky.social · 5d

“Rich countries are treating the climate crisis as a business opportunity, not a moral obligation,” said Nafkote Dabi, @oxfaminternational.bsky.social climate policy lead.

Today in @climatechangenews.com 👇

www.climatechangenews.com/2025/10/06/f...

Foreign aid cuts put adaptation finance pledge at risk, NGOs warn

Rich countries' support for resilience-boosting measures in developing nations may fall far short of their promise to double adaptation finance by this year, says a new report

www.climatechangenews.com

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Oxfam International Media Team @newsfromoxfam.bsky.social · 6d

PRESS RELEASE: Two thirds of climate finance is loans, as rich countries profiteer from climate crisis💰

New research finds poor & climate vulnerable countries are paying back 7 USD for every 5 they receive.

Report by @oxfaminternational.bsky.social @careglobal.bsky.social 👉 oxf.am/climate-fina...

Rich countries are treating the climate crisis as a business opportunity, not a moral obligation. They are lending money to the very people they have historically harmed, trapping vulnerable nations in a cycle of debt. This is a form of crisis profiteering. Quote by Nafkote Dabi, Oxfam International Climate Policy Lead.

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Oxfam International Media Team @newsfromoxfam.bsky.social · 11d

🔴PRESS RELEASE: #Palestine recognition must come with action: to save lives, States must stop Israel’s crimes and ensure Palestinian agency.

Full statement 👉🏾https://oxf.am/Palestine-recognition

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Oxfam International Media Team @newsfromoxfam.bsky.social · 12d

Read all our latest research on how colonialism is hijacking the #RenewableEnergy transition in our new report 👉

www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel...

Colonialism hijacks energy transition: 70% of minerals for renewables lies in Global South but the majority of profits are captured by the world's richest | Oxfam International

www.oxfam.org

Oxfam International Media Team @newsfromoxfam.bsky.social · 12d

"Tesla earns about $3,150 in profit per car, each containing roughly 3kg of cobalt. The Congolese government receives less than $10 in royalties for that cobalt, while a miner may see about $7, Oxfam said."

Today in @contextnewsroom.bsky.social 👇

www.context.news/just-transit...

Who benefits from the world's critical mineral riches? | Context by TRF

New report shows resource-rich nations earn little as minerals flow from Global South mines to factories in China and markets in the West

www.context.news

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Oxfam International Media Team @newsfromoxfam.bsky.social · 17d

Oxfam mourns our partner colleague Tasneem (27), killed with her 2 young children in an Israeli airstrike in #Gaza. Partner clinics providing life-saving care have also been destroyed. Aid workers must never be targets.

👉🏾Full statement: oxf.am/gaza-partner...

#NotATarget

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Oxfam International Media Team @newsfromoxfam.bsky.social · 18d

PRESS RELEASE: Colonialism hijacks energy transition: 70% of minerals for renewables lies in Global South but the majority of profits are captured by the world's richest.

New @oxfaminternational.bsky.social report
👉 oxf.am/unjust-trans...

The richest countries and super-rich individuals are driving the climate crisis to its current tipping point, over-consuming the carbon budget through deeply unequal and extractive systems. Now they are trying to capture and control the energy transition at the expense of the poorest and most climate-vulnerable countries," said Amitabh Behar, Oxfam INternational Executive Director

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Oxfam International Media Team @newsfromoxfam.bsky.social · 24d

"[Stopping a genocide] is the responsibility of governments to do so, and those obligations are enshrined in the Genocide Convention and in international law."

@Agnès Bertrand-Sanz of @oxfam.be spoke to @aljazeera.com on the critical situation in #Gaza 👇

mediaview.aljazeera.com/video/BuHPNH...

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Oxfam International Media Team @newsfromoxfam.bsky.social · 24d

🌍 At #UNGA80 & Climate Week in NY, Oxfam is calling on leaders to act now for gender justice, Gaza, climate justice, UN reform, inequality, and more.

Check out Oxfam's full agenda in our media advisory: oxf.am/UNGA80MediaA...

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Oxfam International Media Team @newsfromoxfam.bsky.social · 27d

🚨PRESS RELEASE: New international joint campaign to stop foreign complicity in Israel's illegal settlement project: Stop Trade with Settlements.

👉🏾Read more: oxf.am/StopSettleme...

#StopSettlements
#StopSettlementTrade #EndTheOccupation

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Oxfam International Media Team @newsfromoxfam.bsky.social · Sep 9

🚨PRESS RELEASE: Palestinians pushed into deeper crisis with Israeli displacement order on entire #Gaza City.

Read more➡️ oxf.am/GazaDisplace...

Oxfam International Media Team @newsfromoxfam.bsky.social · Sep 4

PRESS RELEASE: Rich countries meet only 4% of funds East Africa needs to address climate change.

Read more➡️ oxf.am/4percent

#ClimateCrisis #ACS2

Oxfam International Media Team @newsfromoxfam.bsky.social · Aug 22

🚨REACTION: Famine is confirmed in Gaza Governorate and projected to spread to Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis by the end of September, @theipcinfo.bsky.social warns.

Read our Oxfam reaction 👉oxf.am/4p3lPyD

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Oxfam International Media Team @newsfromoxfam.bsky.social · Aug 18

An estimated 80% of the assets of the richest 1% in Spain are not subject to the wealth tax.

Public support for a proper tax to fund public services is strong, says Susana Ruiz, Tax Justice Policy Lead @oxfaminternational.bsky.social 👇

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

#TaxTheSuperRich

How Spain put up wealth taxes – without chasing away the billionaires

Amid calls for Rachel Reeves to bring in a new levy for the super-rich, Madrid offers lessons for policymakers

www.theguardian.com

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Oxfam International Media Team @newsfromoxfam.bsky.social · Aug 15

Oxfam's Ghada AlHaddad details heartbreaking reality of life on the ground in Gaza amid on-going aid distribution scandal. @bylinetimes.bsky.social

bylinetimes.com/2025/08/15/g...

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Oxfam International Media Team @newsfromoxfam.bsky.social · Aug 8

🚨REACTION: Israel’s plan to take control of Gaza City, forcibly displacing over 1M people would be utterly catastrophic, warns Oxfam.

Read our full reaction 👉oxf.am/4oq6LKL
#Gaza #Palestine #Genocide

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Oxfam International Media Team @newsfromoxfam.bsky.social · Jul 29

Gaza is suffering the worst stages of famine, the @theipcinfo.bsky.social warns today.

World leaders must break Israel's siege & allow humanitarian aid to enter - now.

Our reaction👇
www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel...

Today’s warning of an unfolding famine – one created entirely by Israel’s murderous siege – must finally rouse the international community to act with a clarity and resolve that has so far been beyond it. A quote by Bushra Khalidi, Oxfam's Policy lead in the Occupied Palestinian territory.

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Oxfam International Media Team @newsfromoxfam.bsky.social · Jul 28

🚨REACTION: Responding to @fao.org ’s #SOFI2025 hunger report, Oxfam says: "Despite modest gains in some regions, the world is veering dangerously off track.”

Here’s our full reaction👉 oxf.am/4lU46HK

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Oxfam International Media Team @newsfromoxfam.bsky.social · Jul 28

"We need a new rulebook for the global economy. One that democratises power and money, overcoming neocolonial and neoliberal dynamics that leave Global North countries and investors holding the purse strings."

Joint op-ed by Greenpeace and Oxfam in TIME today 👇
time.com/7305649/the-...
@time.com

The Planet Can’t Afford Billionaires

The executive directors of Oxfam and Greenpeace explain the connection between wealth inequality and climate change.

time.com

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Oxfam International Media Team @newsfromoxfam.bsky.social · Jul 25

🚨BREAKING: Six months into renewed conflict in the Democratic Republic of the #Congo, cholera is killing more than four people every day, Oxfam warns.
Read our full statement 👉oxf.am/4f1oJ1X

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Oxfam International Media Team @newsfromoxfam.bsky.social · Jul 24

🚨BREAKING: Disease is ripping through Gaza as Israel continues to deliberately block aid. Oxfam reports a nearly 150% surge in preventable water-borne illnesses over the past three months.

Read the full story 👉 oxf.am/44W3CcU

#LetAidIn #CeasefireNow

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Oxfam International Media Team @newsfromoxfam.bsky.social · Jul 23

🚨 Oxfam and over 100+ humanitarian organizations, incl.
@savethechildren.org, @amnesty.org, @msfincanada.bsky.social & @careintuk.bsky.social, sound the alarm: let aid into #Gaza.

Read our joint statement👉 oxf.am/4o2lY4J

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Oxfam International Media Team @newsfromoxfam.bsky.social · Jul 23

📢WATCH: "We’ve heard from mothers saying, ‘My son died in front of my eyes because his body couldn’t take it anymore.’
This is not a humanitarian failure — this is a deliberate policy. People are being starved,” said Oxfam's Bushra Khalidi to
@ajenglish.bsky.social

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Oxfam International Media Team @newsfromoxfam.bsky.social · Jul 18

The #G20SouthAfrica ignored the elephant in the room: the super-rich continue to evade taxes while poorer countries are forced to raise revenue through regressive measures like VAT, fueling inequality.

Full reaction 👉🏿 oxf.am/3G20FinMinSA

#G20SA
#TaxTheRich

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