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Plaque commemorating first meeting of Oxfam in the Old Library, the University Church, Oxford Founded at 17 Broad Street, Oxford, as the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief by a group of Quakers, social activists, and Oxford academics in 1942 and registered in accordance with UK law in 1943, the original committee was a group of concerned citizens, including Henry Gillett (a prominent local ...
Oxfam Australia tsunami response saw it working in the following countries: Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand, Somalia, Maldives and Myanmar. [8] [9] Oxfam Australia is a partner in the operation of the Joint Emergency Stores Warehouse, opened in Brisbane in October 2008. The facility contains 100 tonnes of humanitarian supplies for use in ...
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A 2021 Oxfam report found that collectively, the 10 richest men in the world owned more than the combined wealth of the bottom 3.1 billion people, almost half of the entire world population. Their combined wealth doubled during the pandemic.
Oxfam International reported that the richest 1 percent of people owned 48 percent of global wealth As of 2013, [30] and would own more than half of global wealth by 2016. [31] In 2014, Oxfam reported that the 85 wealthiest individuals in the world had a combined wealth equal to that of the bottom half of the world's population, or about 3.5 ...
Cecil Jackson-Cole (1901-1979) was an English entrepreneur and humanitarian. [1] He was associated with a number of charities including Oxfam, Help the Aged and ActionAid.. A devout Christian, Jackson-Cole set up charitable trusts including the Voluntary and Christian Service Trust that ultimately gave rise to the charities Help the Aged (1961), the Anchor Housing Trust (1968) and Action Aid ...
Operation California provided aid to the earthquake victims in Mexico City in 1985, [17] [better source needed] as well as working in cooperation with the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee and Oxfam America, to deliver $250,000 (equivalent to $708,230 in 2023) worth of medical aid to Nicaragua.
In 2021, Oxfam Great Britain conducted a survey querying human rights experts about effective means of worker representation in the economy. They found that “The Coalition of Immokalee Workers’ Fair Food Program was the most widely cited example when Oxfam asked 23 experts about effective ways for workers to represent themselves.” [ 32 ]