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Yemen: A nation paid in delays

02/04/2026

2 documents

19 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English

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As Yemen enters its eleventh year of conflict, the collapse of public sector salaries has become one of the most critical yet overlooked drivers of humanitarian need. This paper amplifies the voices of Yemenis navigating life without a reliable income, where delayed or unpaid salaries have pushed families into cycles of debt, hunger and impossible […]

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Unheard Water Stories from Asia, Africa and MENA: Elevating local voices for water security in a climate insecure world

20/11/2024

3 documents

19 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French

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This paper shares stories from six countries—Bangladesh, Nepal, Kenya, Somalia, Syria, and Iraq—highlighting the challenges communities face in accessing water. It seeks to bring forward the unique perspectives of communities from diverse backgrounds, each experiencing water crises in distinct ways. While climate change intensifies their crises, many communities also face marginalization due to exclusionary water […]

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Loss and Damage to Land: Voices from Asia

29/06/2023

3 documents

17 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Oxfam listened to women and men from Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Timor-Leste who shared their stories on how the climate crisis caused loss and damage to their lands and impacted their lives. The stories demonstrate that land ownership is a key factor in determining people’s eligibility to receive assistance to overcome loss and damage. […]

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High-Priced Medicines and Lack of Needs-Driven Innovation: A global crisis that fuels inequality

22/09/2017

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

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New opportunities and challenges one year after the landmark report of the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines On 14 September 14 2016, the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines publicly released its final report entitled ‘Promoting innovation and access to health technologies’. One year after the release of the landmark […]

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Yemen on the Brink of Famine: Forging a pathway to peace. Oxfam Fair Share Analysis April 2017

24/04/2017

1 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English

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The number of people in need as a result of Yemen’s conflict continues to rise, but the international aid response has failed to keep up. International donors should immediately commit to fully funding the Yemen Humanitarian Response Plan. As the tables in this briefing show, some donor governments are pulling their weight, while others are […]

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Development Cooperation in Crisis

01/11/2016

1 documents

7 pages long

Languages: English

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At a time of great need, aid and other forms of development cooperation are at risk from current global political and economic trends that threaten international development commitments. In November 2016, representatives from donor countries and developing countries will meet at the second High Level Meeting of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC) […]

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I Am Alone: Single women and the Nepal earthquake

23/07/2016

2 documents

8 pages long

Languages: English, Nepali

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The earthquake and aftershock which struck Nepal in 2015 affected more than 8 million people and severely damaged infrastructure including schools, health centres and homes. Existing gender inequalities in Nepal meant that single women were particularly affected in the aftermath, receiving inadequate assistance and being least able to be heard. This briefing argues that the […]

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Europe, Don’t Let Us Down: Voices of refugees and migrants in Greece

20/06/2016

2 documents

16 pages long

Languages: Arabic, Dari, English, Spanish

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Since the beginning of 2015 more than one million migrants, including refugees, fleeing war, persecution, natural disasters and poverty, have travelled through Turkey to Greece in search of safety and a dignified life in Europe. Lacking safe and legal alternatives, they put their lives in the hands of smugglers and risk everything during perilous sea […]

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Underpaid and Undervalued: How inequality defines women’s work in Asia

31/05/2016

2 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

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Rising economic inequality across Asia is threatening poverty reduction and slowing down the fight against gender inequality. Although the region has experienced economic growth, the bottom 70% have seen their income share fall while the share for the top 10% has increased rapidly. Low wages and a lack of rights at work, particularly for women, […]

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Hot, Hungry and Starved of Investment: Supporting smallholders to build a climate-resilient agricultural sector in southern Africa

24/05/2016

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

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As the African Development Bank meets in southern Africa, one of the strongest and most sustained El Nino events on record – turbocharged by climate change – is causing severe drought, failed harvests and a hunger crisis across the region. This is being made worse by record high temperatures as a result of global warming. […]

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