Every year, the gap between rich and poor gets even wider – and it’s being fuelled by the use of tax havens. Today, 8 individuals have the same wealth as the poorest half the people on our planet. It is time to bring an end to inequality. It is time to Even it up!
!["Llegar en canoa a Nyal lleva tres días. Ir caminando habría llevado demasiado tiempo. El viaje estuvo bien. Fue tranquilo y seguro. Sé cómo de peligroso es para las mujeres recorrer largas distancias y dormir en el bosque solas. Yo, sin embargo, me sentí](http://web.archive.org./web/20170128103604im_/https://www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/files/styles/mdd-promoted/public/summary_pictures/south_sudan_canoe_program_voucher_440x300.jpg?itok=HLchgLKA ""Llegar en canoa a Nyal lleva tres días. Ir caminando habría llevado demasiado tiempo. El viaje estuvo bien. Fue tranquilo y seguro. Sé cómo de peligroso es para las mujeres recorrer largas distancias y dormir en el bosque solas. Yo, sin embargo, me sentí")
For 40 years, the Quechua communities in Peru have lived with contaminated rivers, and poor health as a result of oil drilling. Teddy Guerra is leading the effort to obtain integral land rights for his community before any more concessions are given to oil companies. Read his story and sign the petition.
Millions of people are being forced to flee their homes, risking everything to escape conflict, disaster, poverty or hunger. We are working in nine of the ten top refugee source countries as well as in refugee host countries. We urgently need your help to reach people in Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and in Europe.
With no end in sight to the conflict in Syria, hundreds of thousands of people are living in desperate conditions and exposed to continuing violence. Today, half the pre-conflict population of 22 million Syrians have fled their homes and more than 13.5 million people urgently need your help.
Yemen is on the brink of famine after nearly two years of devastating conflict. So far thousands of people have been killed and over 3 million forced to flee their homes. More than half of the country is without enough to eat. We are delivering emergency aid but we urgently need your help to do more.
The people of Yemen are experiencing one of the world’s gravest humanitarian crises, but very little is known about it. The conflict between a Saudi-led coalition of Gulf countries and the Government of Yemen against the Ansar-Allah movement (also known as the Houthis), which escalated in March 2015, caused over 46,000 deaths and injuries.
Over three million people have been forced to flee their homes due to the bombing and fighting. Nearly 19 million people – 70 percent of Yemen population – need emergency aid.
The country’s economy is near to collapse. Countless homes and vital parts of civilian infrastructure have been destroyed. Food prices are continuing to rise, while many of the poorest people have lost their incomes. More than 14 million Yemenis are suffering from food insecurity and malnutrition, including 7 million now facing possible famine.
We are delivering essential aid in the north and south of the country and have reached more than one million people across the frontlines, since July 2015. We are aiming to reach 1.2 million people by March 2017.
Help includes cash payments to help families to buy food; clean water and sanitation services, including in hard-to-reach areas of the country, by trucking drinking water and repairing water systems and latrines; supporting families with livestock treatment and cash for work programs.
In response to the cholera outbreak, we have directly supported nearly 360,000 people from four governorates in coordination with other international agencies. We have delivered filters, jerry cans, building latrines and organized hygiene awareness programs.
Peace talks and a partially observed cessation of hostilities ended in early August, airstrikes and ground fighting are now on the rise yet again. For millions of Yemeni women, men and children, life remains a daily struggle and violence a constant threat.
We are on the ground distributing life-saving aid, but we urgently need to reach more people and we can’t do it without you. Please donate.
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