Publications

Oxfam joined thousands to march through central London, demanding that the government tax billionaires to pay more toward solving the climate crisis. Credit: Mark Chilvers / Oxfam

Time to walk the talk

The inequality crisis is worsening. The year 2025 has set yet another bleak record with billionaire wealth jumping by over 16 per cent in 2025 to $18.3 trillion – its highest level in history. Since…

Extractive Revenue Policy Options for Africa

Extractive Revenue Policy Options for Africa

Africa’s vast natural resource wealth offers significant opportuni-ties for financing sustainable development, yet fiscal deficits and rising public debt constrain many governments. Despite holding…

Refugees fleeing the Sudan conflict, Saud Yosif Idris Mahmou, 40, and her children Asia* and Hassan* at their shelter at the transit center in Renk. Photo: Peter Caton/Oxfam

No representation, no peace

This briefing report argues that structural inequality in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) – marked by Africa’s exclusion from permanent representation – undermines global peace and…

Demonstrators make signs with their arms in front of Kenyan police officers during a demonstration against tax hikes as Members of the Parliament debate the Finance Bill 2024 in downtown Nairobi, on June 18, 2024. The police fired tear gas and arrested dozens of demonstrators. Photo: Luis Tato/AFP via Getty Images

Resisting the rule of the rich

The number of billionaires has surpassed 3,000 for the first time, and the level of billionaire wealth is now higher than at any time in history. It is one thing for a billionaire to buy an enormous…

Kenya's Inequality Crisis

Inequality has been recognized as one of the most severe risks facing the world. Kenya is no exception. The gap between the richest and the rest has widened dramatically over the last decade,…

Climate Plunder - Climate Inequality

Climate Plunder

The evidence that we are facing imminent and irreversible climate breakdown is now damning: 2024 marked the first year that average global temperatures rose above the internationally agreed 1.5°C…

Yvonne and her two daughters prepare a meal next to their home on the Cesacoba site near Bangassou, Central African Republic, 2021. Adrienne Surprenant/ Oxfam

Seen but not heard

Armed conflicts pose the principal threat to civilian safety in Central African Republic (CAR), Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Mali and South Sudan. Civilians, particularly women and children…

Feminist Leadership for a Transformative Women, Peace and Security Agenda at 25: Case studies from Colombia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Occupied Palestinian Territory and South Sudan

Beyond Rethoric

Twenty-five years after the United Nations adopted Resolution 1325, the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda is both a landmark in diplomacy and a study in unfulfilled promise. Its most profound…

Reclaiming the energy future from climate colonialism

Unjust Transition

The global energy transition stands at a pivotal moment: it can either dismantle the inequalities driving the climate crisis or deepen them. Today, the transition risks reproducing patterns of…

A group of shepherds and their livestock arrive in the community of Sincaro, in the Sanag region, Somalia, where Oxfam has built a water supply system for people and animals. Credit Pablo Tosco

Climate Finance Shadow Report for Intergovernmental Authority on Development Regional Economic Community

The countries of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD)—Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, and Uganda—bear little historic responsibility for climate…