My colleague Marc Cohen, a senior researcher at Oxfam America, reflects on the 25th anniversary since the devastating famine of 1984 in Ethiopia. He was in the country a few months ago.

Twenty-five years ago, Michael Buerk's dramatic BBC footage from Korem, in northern Ethiopia, brought a devastating famine...

NGOs welcome US support but warn that proposal to give any Member State veto power would weaken not strengthen future Treaty

Today's announcement by the US government of its support for beginning negotiations on the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) was welcomed by Oxfam International and Amnesty International. But the two...

There is enough food grown in the world for everyone. And yet we remain stuck in a food crisis.

Half the world's food is lost as waste and a billion people - one in every six of the world's poorest - cannot access enough of the other half and...

This is by Anna Macdonald, a colleague from Oxfam who is in New York this month pushing governments to officially launch negotiations for a potential Arms Trade Treaty. Oxfam is also publishing a report this week showing the urgency to have a treaty that regulates arms trade.

Good things...

My colleague Ian Bray has just landed in Padang, Indonesia.

Day one of his diary

"Clean water is urgently needed." says Inel Rosnelli, as she queues up with a line for clean water at a neighbour's well in quake-hit Padang on the island of Sumatra. "The only other alternative...

Tomorrow marks six years since the bombing of the UN office in Baghdad. The casualties from that blast included the top UN official in Iraq, Sérgio Vieira de Mello, and other UN staff working to help Iraqi civilians in the middle of war. The UN has designated August 19th the...

Below is a blog from the Head of Oxfam in the DRC, Marcel Stoessel

This afternoon I'm supposed to be attending a meeting with the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who flew into Congo last night. She's here to meet victims of sexual violence from the conflict in the...

The Geneva Conventions, the cornerstone of international humanitarian law, are 60 years old this week. They represent the most widely ratified and recognized legal instrument worldwide.

But 60 years on, they are now being violated in every modern conflict. From Afghanistan to the Democratic Republic of Congo to the...

See below a blog by my colleague Nicole Johnston on the difficulties and challenges that average Zimbabweans face, especially the elderly. Nicole is a native of Zimbabwe herself.

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"I am actually seeing myself as a human being again."

When I heard these words at a food distribution...

Fashion photographer Rankin has joined forces with aid agency Oxfam to put together a unique selection of portraits from Congo's war-zone: The exhibition "Cheka Kidogo" (Swahili for "laugh a little") aims to raise awareness of the forgotten conflict in Congo. We wanted to go beyond the harrowing statistics and introducing...

See below, the diary of Jonaid Jilani, an Oxfam colleague in Pakistan as he just came back from visiting camps packed with displaced people in Mardan, north west part of the country. Ironically, this is one of the most beautiful areas of Pakistan...
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Ahmed Gul was in despair....

As the UN Security Council is set to tour Africa this week and next, Oxfam is warning that an offensive in Eastern Congo - backed by the UN member states - will likely cause immense suffering for the Congolese population.

The Congo government's UN-backed military plans against rebels in South...

Oxfam GB's Country Director in DRC, Marcel Stoessel's brief journey through war-torn eastern Congo reveals desperate need on a huge scale.

It was in late March that I started receiving increasingly worrying reports about alleged atrocities in remote areas of North Kivu. Military operations by the Congolese army against...

Oxfam is publishing a new report on the 250,000 people currently living in appalling conditions in Northern Kenya.

Our report says that "hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees will face a humanitarian emergency this year, unless urgent steps are taken to deal with a serious public health crisis...

A coalition of NGOs - the G20Voice - and the UK government are breaking with convention and, for the first time, allowing 50 bloggers to report live and direct from the G20 summit, on 2 April 2009 in London.

This unprecedented event gives the bloggers and their audience...

Even as security is improving in Iraq these days, there is an ongoing and silent emergency that is devastating some of the most at risk people in the country: women.

After 6 years of conflict, countless women have been driven deep into poverty and many continue to face threats...

See below a Blog from my colleague Mike who was in Gaza this week for the second time since the ceasefires were announced. He tells of people on both sides going through similar things: No longer feeling like civilians but as war targets...

I'm in Gaza for the second time...

We just issued this press release in Jerusalem and Geneva where the UN is calling for funds to bring relief to the people of Gaza. Along with vital aid money, we're also calling for Israel to open the crossings... The latest is that dates and macaroni have been rejected at...

My colleague Elena Qleibo works in the Gaza Strip as a Food Security and Livelihood officer for Oxfam. She talks about her work in the Strip, as Oxfam starts an emergency response to reach thousands of families who were unable to get access to humanitarian aid during in the past...

My colleague from Oxfam Mohammed Ali continues to report from his home in Gaza City during the Israeli military offensive. Despite being exhausted and barely able to stay on his feet, he's still eager to tell the world his story.

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Gaza City: Every day I say, ' this...