How we fight poverty
The injustice of poverty demands a powerful and practical response to address both its causes and its impact on peoples' lives.
![Kuir Mayem Atem, déplacée dans un camp au Soudan du Sud](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141031151418im_/http://www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/files/styles/mdd-promoted/public/emergency/southsudan_may2014_kuirmayematem_mingkaman_kierandoherty-oxfam.jpg?itok=6RUuci9T "Kuir Mayem Atem now lives in Mingkaman camp, after fleeing her home with her family. "I could only think about taking my children to safety.” Photo: Kieran Doherty/Oxfam")
Ebola is devastating communities in West Africa. It has already killed almost half of the people it has infected. We are stepping up our response to the disease to try to slow down the spread of infection.
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85 individuals have the same wealth as half the people on our planet. Such extreme economic inequality is standing in the way of ending global poverty, and widening other inequalities like the gap between women and men. It is time to Even it up!
Extreme inequality is the defining challenge of our time, but it is not inevitable, and can be tackled. Much can be done to even it up, and make the world a fairer place. Act now!
Oxfam presents new evidence that the gap between rich and poor is growing ever wider and is undermining poverty eradication. This report delves into the causes of the inequality crisis and looks at the concrete solutions that can overcome it.
One person in three in the world lives in poverty.
Oxfam is determined to change that world by mobilizing the power of people against poverty.
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Number of billionaires doubles since financial crisis as inequality spirals out of control
Rising inequality could set the fight against poverty back by decades, Oxfam warned today as it published a new report showing that the number of billionaires worldwide has more than doubled since the financial crisis.
Mistrust and confusion are allowing Ebola to thrive in West Africa
Mistrust, rumor and myths about the origin and spread of Ebola are allowing the disease to thrive, the aid agency Oxfam is warning.
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29 October 2014
Over the past year, an overwhelming consensus has developed on the dangers of growing and extreme economic inequality. Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of Oxfam International, gives four ways to close the growing inequality gap.
29 October 2014
Mexico is the setting for these stories. The country that sees the coexistence of an individual like Carlos Slim, who has several times been named the richest man on the planet, and another such as Francisco, who has no home to live in.
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