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Of the Oxfam charity shops around the UK, around 100 are specialist bookshops or book and music shops. Oxfam is the largest retailer of second-hand books in Europe, selling around 12 million per year. In 2008, Oxfam GB worked with over 20,000 volunteers in shops across the UK, raising £17.1 million for Oxfam's programme work. [34]
Throughout the feudal era, famines were common in Ethiopia, especially in the north. [17] Local famines were also frequent but also unrecorded. [17] The most infamous was the "Great Ethiopian Famine" which killed approximately one third of Ethiopia's population between 1888 and 1892. [17] [18] In 1958, famine killed 100,000 people. [17]
Mark Ian Goldring CBE (born 8 March 1957) [1] was chief executive officer of the charity Oxfam GB, Oxfam's British affiliate. He was appointed in May 2013 [2] and resigned in 2018. Since 2020 he has been Director of Oxford-based charity Asylum Welcome. [3] [4]
Oxfam distributing clean water to a drought-stricken area in southern Ethiopia. The UN's declaration of famine has been its first since the 1984–1985 famine in Ethiopia, when over a million people died. [15] Under international law, there is no mandated response which must follow from an official declaration of famine.
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In 2020, Bucher was appointed Executive Director of Oxfam International. She was the first Colombian to lead the organization. [ 1 ] Under her leadership, Oxfam advocated for reducing wealth inequality global, increasing taxes on the wealthy and corporations, and ensuring an equitable global recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic .
In 2024, the Australian Greens expressed deep concern over the humanitarian crisis in Tigray, Ethiopia, citing the New Lines Institute Genocide report that details widespread human rights abuses, including killings, displacement, gender-based violence, and famine. The Greens believe the actions of Ethiopian and Eritrean forces may constitute ...