Category: Emergencies
When crisis strikes we respond quickly with life-saving support and help people to rebuild their livelihoods.
![A woman waits for food in Mingkaman, Lakes state, April 2014. Photo: Pablo Tosco/Oxfam Photo: Pablo Tosco/Oxfam](https://www.oxfam.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/SouthSudan_foodcrisis_PablocTosco648x431.jpg)
South Sudan’s food crisis
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South Sudan is facing the world’s worst food crisis, driven by the conflict that erupted in December 2013. Unless there is an end to the fighting, this food crisis will continue. More than two million people are facing severe food insecurity in South Sudan. As the dry season begins, the brutal conflict that provoked this disaster is about […] Read more »
Stand #WithSyria; demand an end to indiscriminate attacks
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This powerful new film from the #WithSyria campaign is nothing short of the real catastrophe that has been taking place for more than three years. Use your power to hold the UN Security Council to their word and help end the bombing of Syrian civilians. Read more »
![Oxfam India staff reach out to a Gujjars community who suffered extensive losses of shelter, food and livestock in one of the worst affected areas in the Akhnoor Block of Jammu district. Photo: Abhilash Lahkar/Oxfam Photo: Abhilash Lahkar/Oxfam](https://www.oxfam.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/IndiaFloods2_Abhilash-Lahkar_Oxfam_648x431.jpg)
Flooding in India: Worst disaster to hit Jammu and Kashmir region in a century
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Oxfam is responding to flooding in India that has affected people in 2,500 villages in the Jammu Kashmir region, in the worst natural disaster to hit the region in 60 years. Read more »
![Syrian children take part in a drawing activity during an afternoon of games organised by Oxfam Italy WASH teams in an informal settlement near Ghaza, in Lebanon's Bekaa valley. Photo: Maya Hautefeuille/Oxfam Photo: Maya Hautefeuille/Oxfam](https://www.oxfam.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/FairerDealSyrians_Maya-Hautefeuille_648x431.jpg)
Millions of Syrian refugees abandoned
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Despite being the largest humanitarian crisis in the world, the international response to the Syria Crisis is failing. Three and a half years on, the generosity of neighbouring countries such as Lebanon and Jordan is at breaking point, and refugees and poor communities are paying the price. Read more »
![OxfamAUS OxfamAUS](https://www.oxfam.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/AugustAppeal.jpg)
End violence against women in Papua New Guinea
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In Papua New Guinea (PNG), violence against women is part of everyday life. A shocking 50% of women have experienced abuse. At just 10 years old, Ruth lost her mother. She had no choice but to live with her uncle and aunt where she experienced regular beatings. Mama Rasta was accused of sorcery by her […] Read more »
![Hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza fled the bombing. When families returned to Shujaiya in eastern Gaza during a brief 12-hour pause, many found their homes completely destroyed (July 2014). Photo: Iyad al Baba/Oxfam](https://www.oxfam.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/OGB_88165_Gaza0037-scr.jpg)
Gaza ceasefire welcome – but now it’s time to end the cycle of violence once and for all
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After 50 days of intense violence, a new ceasefire in Gaza has been agreed between Israel and Hamas. It’s a welcome and much needed respite for civilians on all sides, following a conflict that has come at a terrible human cost. More than 1,500 civilians in Gaza, and six in Israel, have been killed and […] Read more »
![During a brief 12 cessation of hostilities, families returned to Shujaiya in eastern Gaza, scene of
some of the heaviest Israeli bombing. Thousands of families fled the area and were only now
able to return to see the massive damage to homes and infrastructure, and search for the
bodies of missing family members. About 150 bodies were uncovered from beneath the rubble,
bringing the death toll over 1,000. Photo: Iyad al Baba/Oxfam. Photo: Iyad al Baba/Oxfam](https://www.oxfam.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Gaza_Ceasefire-blog_800x533.jpg)
Gaza Crisis: Open letter to Julie Bishop
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On 20 August 2014, twelve of Australia’s biggest international humanitarian and development agencies wrote to Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, calling on the Australian Government to urgently push for a permanent ceasefire in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel, and unhindered access for humanitarian assistance for civilians in Gaza. Read more »
![Elizabeth and baby Swampy. Photo: Kieran Doherty/Oxfam Elizabeth and baby Swampy. Photo: Kieran Doherty/Oxfam](https://www.oxfam.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/SouthSudan_Elizabeth_KieranDohertyOxfam648x431.jpg)
Famine looming over the people of South Sudan
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Elizabeth and her five children live in a shared tent with 20 other people. Her husband was shot and killed, and her families’ home has since been burned down. Now, Elizabeth is worried about what will become of her and her children. Read more »
![Photo: Iyad al Baba/Oxfam Photo: Iyad al Baba/Oxfam](https://www.oxfam.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Gaza_Destruction_648x431.jpg)
The Gaza blockade – a personal story
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Richard Stanforth is Oxfam GB’s Regional Policy Adviser in the Middle East. Here, he shares his personal experience of what life has been like in Gaza under the blockade. I first visited Gaza in spring 2006 when I had just become a policy officer for Oxfam covering Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory. I arrived […] Read more »
![Photo: Iyad Al Baba/Oxfam](https://www.oxfam.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ButXhadCUAAq16g.png)
Six year olds in Gaza live through their third war
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Salama Shamali is just six years old, yet he has already lived through three wars. I met him just days ago at a school run by a local church, where he and his family sought refuge after their home was bombed. “I am not happy,” he told me. “My house is destroyed. The missiles destroyed […] Read more »