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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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Josephine Liebl, Oxfam’s global policy lead on displacement, looks ahead to the UN Summit in New York in JosephineLiebl
September – and looks back on a heady few weeks negotiating its outcome.

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(Moscow, Russia) As part of its contribution to the localization of aid agenda, Oxfam and the Moscow State Institute for International Relations (MGIMO-University) with the assistance of International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) convened a conference yesterday to support greater cooperation between Russian civil society and the government.

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Famine in East Africa 2011 — the humanitarian catastrophe that according to international organizations threatens about 11.5 million people, primarily in Somalia (3.7 million), Ethiopia (4.8 million), Kenya (2.9 million) and Djibouti (164 thousand). The food crisis has also affected Eritrea and other East African States, which, however, no accurate statistics.

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Famine swept the USSR in 1932-1933, took the lives of millions of our countrymen. On the causes of the tragedy and documents provides a new look at this period of our history, told the director of the Federal State Institution Russian State Archive of Economy Elena Turina.

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