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The World Water Day is celebrated on 22th March every year. Providing clean drinking water, sanitation and hygiene facilities to population affected by humanitarian crises, is the pinnacle of Oxfam's humanitarian work. Since 2015 we have provided clean water and sanitation to over 1 million people, including in hard-to-reach areas. We provide water by truck, repair water systems, deliver filters and jerry cans, we also build latrines and organise cleaning & awareness campaigns.

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On the 29-30^th October 2018, 78 representatives of NGOs, public and private schools, municipal and regional educational authorities and socially-oriented businesses convened in Moscow to share their experience in education and integration of migrant children. The meeting was part of a series of seminars, which are initiated by the Centre for Integration and Adaptation of migrant children “Kids are kids” and with financial and organisational support from Oxfam in Russia. This is the fourth seminar, and it culminated the joint project entitled “No borders integration”, conducted jointly by Mediaost Events und Kommunikation and Destination Est, with the financial support from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Germany. 

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One civilian has been killed every three hours in fighting in Yemen since the beginning of August, with many more people succumbing to disease and hunger, Oxfam said today.  The Saudi-led coalition and the internationally recognised government are battling with the Houthis to control key ports and cities in the country.

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The seminar on integration and education of migrant children will take place on 29-30 October 2018. It will become fourth in the series of seminars organized by Integration Centre for migrant and refugee children “Kids as kids” and Oxfam in Russia. The seminar also serves as the final stage of the international exchange project titled “No borders integration” aiming at strengthening capacities of specialists working with non-native speaking children. The project is being implemented jointly by Mediaost Events und Kommunikation and Destination Est with financial support from Auswärtiges Amt (The Federal Foreign Office). 

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August has been the bloodiest month this year for civilians in Yemen due to a combination of the warring parties’ reckless disregard for civilian lives and the failure of their political backers to offer any action to prevent the carnage said Oxfam today. 

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Rohingya women living in Bangladesh are developing health problems, missing out on aid and are at greater risk of abuse due to unsafe and unsuitable facilities in many parts of the refugee camps, Oxfam warned today. 

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 A third earthquake of 6-Richter magnitude which struck Lombok earlier today has severely escalated the need for life-saving aid and has slowed down rescue efforts. 

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Oxfam is providing clean drinking water and tarpaulin shelter sheets to 5,000 survivors as a devastating 7-Richter magnitude earthquake, the second within a week, hit Lombok Island in Indonesia earlier today.

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Oxfam condemned today’s attacks and called on all parties to the conflict to respect international law and protect civilians from harm. 

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• Independent Commission appointed and Safeguarding review on track
• Initial training for 119 staff to become new safeguarding investigators 
• More than €2m investment in safeguarding across Oxfam globally
• Staff reference systems introduced with enhanced pre-employment checks
• Whistle-blowing reporting lines in five languages

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The findings of surveys carried out in Bolivia, Cuba, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic show that male violence against women persists in the daily lives of young people in Latin America 

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Thousands of Syrians forced from their homes due to the recent fighting in Dar’a are unable to get the help they desperately need, international aid agency Oxfam said today. 

Amid scorching summer temperatures, families need shelter, water, food and medical care but access for humanitarian agencies is limited and not enough assistance has been able to cross the border into Syria from Jordan. 

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One year after Mosul was retaken from ISIS, thousands of people are still unable to return home as parts of the city remain severely damaged and lack running water or electricity, Oxfam said today

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For the second year in a row Oxfam is invited to share its experience at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. On the 25^th of May 2018 Oxfam representative Elsa Vidal shared the organisation’s best practices of engagement with private and public sectors on the issue of sustainable development at the roundtable titled “The role of business in global development: when charity pays off”.

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Oxfam today warned that prolonged closure of crossings into Gaza could cut Palestinians from essential goods such as fuel and food and threatens to further deteriorate what is already a dire humanitarian situation. 

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26 апреля 2018 года Тим Форстер - технический советник по водоснабжению, санитарии и гигиене (WASH) Всемирной гуманитарной команды Оксфам, провел семинар в рамках курса «Содействие международному развитию» магистерской программы МГИМО «Социально-гуманитарное сотрудничество и внешние связи регионов».   

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Oxfam in the Russian Federation and Higher School of Economics Institute for Social Policy hosted a meeting of "Migration studies" regular seminar on 18 May 2017. Dawn Chatty, the Emeritus Professor at Oxford University made a presentation titled "Syria and its refugees: a historical perspective"

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On 16-17 February, 2017 civil society representatives from G20 countries came to Berlin to shape recommendations for G20.

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Six years since the demonstrations that triggered the descent into a brutal civil war, millions of Syrians are bearing the brunt of increasingly restrictive policies around the world and inside Syria to stop them reaching safety, Oxfam warned today.

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On 16-17 March Berlin hosted more than 100 civil society representatives from over 10 countries who came together to shape recommendations for the G20. Rebecca Perkins who is Oxfam's independent consultant on gender justice, took part in the meeting of the C20 working group. We'd like to share her accounts from the meeting with you.

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