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Peru banned child marriage: here are three ways longitudinal research helped to make that happen. Kath Ford on how Oxford’s Young Lives study achieved real policy impact based on robust data, influencing work and relationships built over years. frompoverty.oxfam.org.uk/peru-ban-child… Young Lives

BLOG: In Policy & Practice's latest blog Kath Ford explains how a combination of our longitudinal data, translating research into policy influencing, & relationships built over many years helped secure a ban on all child marriage in Peru Read: frompoverty.oxfam.org.uk/peru-ban-child… ODID



Cities besieged, bakeries bombed, fields set alight... Lawrence Robinson and Désirée Ketabchi explain why Oxfam International has become a founder member of a new coalition to challenge the use of starvation as a weapon of war views-voices.oxfam.org.uk/2025/04/end-st…


🚨 Unite the union: join a union has launched a campaign against Oxfam International’s plan to axe and outsource staff roles — 265 jobs are at risk in total. 📣 Read more: unitetheunion.org/news-events/ne… ✍️ Sign the petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/stop… #JobsPayConditions



Five ways to back enterprises that drive climate and gender justice. Women already lead innovation in the green economy. Here’s how to support their enterprises and ensure climate-friendly firms also boost gender justice. Oxfam Novib views-voices.oxfam.org.uk/2025/05/five-w…

🚨 Oxfam International plans to outsource jobs. Add your name to stop it. Outsourcing wrecks job security. It creates a two-tier workforce. And it flies in the face of Oxfam’s mission to fight poverty. Sign our petition demanding Oxfam keeps these jobs in-house 👉 actionnetwork.org/petitions/stop…


Global development needs a Plan B: could this be it? As powerful nations turn inwards and multilateralism falters, alternative coalitions must step in. Len Ishmael, Stephan Klingebiel and Andy Sumner explain the concept of ‘like-minded internationalism’. frompoverty.oxfam.org.uk/global-develop…


✊ Unite the union: join a union members protested outside Oxfam in Oxford, Manchester and London over plans to cut 265 jobs and outsource core roles. Read More: unitelive.org/oxfam-workers-… 📝 Sign the petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/stop…

This Carers Week, we need to talk about racial justice. Margaret Chiwanza of MECOPP Carers Centre introduces research revealing how carers in Scotland from Black and Minority Ethnic communities are being pushed into poverty and struggling in silence. views-voices.oxfam.org.uk/2025/06/this-c… Oxfam Scotland

‘I have two jobs: one that keeps someone alive – and one that I get paid for.’ Unpaid carers like me save the NHS billions, says Laura Barnes (NumberEighteenInTheCorner) in a blog for Carers Week in the UK – yet our rewards include burnout and poverty views-voices.oxfam.org.uk/2025/06/i-have…

Today’s #carersweek theme is ‘work and employment’. I wrote a blog for Policy & Practice Oxfam on having two more-than-full-time jobs #unpaidcarers Katy Styles Carers UK Patrick Butler Josh Halliday


Women in the Global South know exactly how to support their own communities – so why don’t we get behind them? Oxfam CEO Halima Begum PhD on our fund for grassroots women’s rights organisations, which last night won two The Charity Awards. views-voices.oxfam.org.uk/2025/07/women-…

The Financing for Development conference let us down: now the fight for feminist economic justice continues. The Seville event disappointed us on gender justice, debt reform and private finance - but it did open up opportunities to build on, says Rachel Noble voices.oxfam.org.uk/2025/07/financ…