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Briefing paper

‘I Still Don’t Feel Safe to Go Home’: Voices of Rohingya refugees

18/12/2017

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20 pages long

Languages: English

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Since 25 August, more than 626,000 Rohingya have reached Bangladesh from Myanmar. Rohingya women and men have told Oxfam devastating stories of killings, rape and sexual violence. This report is an opportunity for some of them to share their stories, hopes, and their experiences of living in overcrowded refugee camps with overflowing latrines and contaminated […]

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Briefing paper

Transitioning to a Government-Run Refugee and Migrant Response in Greece: A joint NGO roadmap for more fair and humane policies

13/12/2017

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

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Two years on from the peak of the ‘refugee crisis’ in Greece, the Greek state is beginning to take over management and financing of aspects of the reception and integration system, and many international nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) that came to assist with the then-humanitarian emergency are downsizing or preparing to exit the country entirely. At […]

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Research report

‘Sima’: The ‘Great Equalizer’ Pushes Everyone to Destitution: Gender analysis for drought response in Ethiopia – Somali Region

11/12/2017

2 documents

64 pages long

Languages: English

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Despite impressive economic growth recorded in Ethiopia over the past decade, chronic food insecurity affects many. The country’s subsistence crop and livestock agriculture is vulnerable to climate change and rainfall variability. The Ethiopian Somali region is one of the regions worst affected. A shortage of rainfall in the region over the past three consecutive years […]

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Case study

Community Stories of Resilience Building in ASEAN: Strengthening community resilience through peer-to-peer learning

11/12/2017

1 documents

162 pages long

Languages: English

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Asia is vulnerable to more frequent and severe disasters due to the rapid rise of natural hazards, extreme weather events, and the impacts of climate change. ASEAN’s Declaration on Institutionalizing the Resilience of ASEAN and its Communities and Peoples to Disasters and Climate Change recognizes this, and its vision of resilience sets out to achieve […]

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Briefing paper

Balancing the Books: Including women and protecting refugees is essential to realizing small business growth in Jordan

10/12/2017

2 documents

16 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English

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It is essential that opportunities for job growth are supported both for refugees in Jordan and the vulnerable communities hosting them. Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) can be a key driver of job growth. Promoting MSMEs could also help to address gender inequality and protection issues for refugees in Jordan. This joint agency paper […]

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Briefing paper

Taxing for Shared Prosperity: Policy options for the Asia-Pacific region

08/12/2017

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

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The Asia-Pacific region was a model for ‘growing with equity’ in the 1970s and 1980s. Rapid economic growth was achieved without major increases in inequality. However an economic take-off and market-oriented reforms in recent years, despite helping hundreds of millions to be lifted out of extreme poverty, has been accompanied by growing income and wealth […]

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Briefing paper

Taxing for a More Equal Kenya: A five-point action plan to tackle inequality

06/12/2017

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78 pages long

Languages: English

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Extreme inequality is out of control in Kenya. Less than 0.1% of the population (8,300 people) own more wealth than the bottom 99.9% (more than 44 million people). Tackling inequality could help to lift millions out of poverty, secure sustainable economic growth and bring the country together. Inequality is not inevitable and the government can […]

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Research report

Rapid Protection, Food Security and Market Assessment: Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, November 2017

30/11/2017

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32 pages long

Languages: English

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Since 25 August 2017, the Cox’s Bazar and Bandarban districts in the south-east of Bangladesh have seen a mass influx of Rohingya refugees fleeing violence in Rakhine State in Myanmar. To inform programming and the wider humanitarian response, Oxfam undertook a rapid food security, markets and protection assessment in November 2017. This was done to […]

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Briefing note

Blacklist or Whitewash? What a real EU blacklist of tax havens should look like

28/11/2017

7 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Tax havens deprive countries of hundreds of billions of dollars, fuelling inequality and poverty. The EU will soon release a blacklist of tax havens operating outside the EU, and issue penalties for those appearing on it. However, power politics means that several significant tax havens could be missing from the list. This report shows what […]

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Case study

Institutionalizing Protection in Disaster Risk Reduction: A case study from the Dominican Republic

21/11/2017

2 documents

18 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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Due to its geographical location, the Dominican Republic is highly prone to the impacts of natural hazards, which, in combination with the existing underlying factors of widespread inequality and impoverishment, result all too often in disaster. As a consequence, the country is faced with large scale disaster-induced displacements on a recurrent basis. Addressing protection as […]

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