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!
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.
The economy of Ecuador is basically dependent on oil: four out of every ten dollars in the government’s budget comes from oil exports. The reserves are running out, pressure to protect the environment is increasing and the country is wondering how it is going to generate income when the reserves come to an end or, even sooner, if the country stops its extraction because of the Rights of Nature policy.
Ecuador also has to live with the risk of earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, droughts and floods, now made worse by climate change. Global warming is a concern especially to the indigenous population, one of the groups responsible for the country’s food security. Its historic struggle for access to water and land has now borne fruit, but the climate appears to be an uphill struggle.
In Ecuador, poverty is more rural than urban, more indigenous and black than white, more female than male: achieving equality, together with justice, is one of the reasons Oxfam is working in this South American country.
We are responding to a major earthquake off the coast of Ecuador that caused hundreds of deaths and injured thousands of people. The Ecuadorian Government has declared the state of emergency in 6 regions of the country.
We have already deployed a seven-person expert assessment team from the region to the area to determine our response to this disaster which has already claimed hundreds of lives. We are also sending a first shipment of aid to secure basic hygiene and clean water among affected communities.
The most urgent need is for safe drinking water and storage, as well as shelter for thousands who have lost their homes. Help us get to more people in need.
Oxfam is working to help women and men live together in an equal society and to give them access to a decent and secure lifestyle at a time of climate change and natural disasters. It is also working for food sovereignty and for a fairer socioeconomic development which does not depend on hydrocarbons and which protects Human Rights and the Rights of Nature.
Oxfam believes that the lives of many Ecuadoreans can be improved and to this end it is working with members and local allies for:
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