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/20141114122034im_/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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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!
Agnes Nyantie’s unassuming manner hides a spirit that will be key in overcoming Liberia’s Ebola crisis. The 42 year old mother of five goes door to door every day to offer people advice on the deadly virus.
The gap between the rich and the rest is extreme and growing. G20 nations are not immune.
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.
News
Almost half the G20 countries have failed to deliver in the global fight against Ebola
Nine of the G20 countries have failed to deliver adequate support in the fight against Ebola despite calls for more help and the fact they are the largest economies in the world, Oxfam says today.
G20 must turn the tide on rising inequality and tackle tax dodging
G20 Leaders meeting in Brisbane, Australia this weekend (15 and 16 November) are being urged to tackle rising inequality head-on or risk leaving millions of people trapped in poverty, as new figures reveal the wealth disparity in a number of G20 countries.
Blogs
10 November 2014
There is an overwhelming consensus that things must change. We can now claim a broad consensus on the causes and problems of inequality. What we need now is a shared agenda on the solutions. It's time to Even It Up.
3 November 2014
By Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of Oxfam International - Oxfam launches a new campaign, Even it Up. What we aim to show through our campaign is that inequality is not inevitable. It is the result of policy choices.
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