Oxfam recently conducted a Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA) with Finland’s biggest supermarket. Tim Gore shares more. Human rights abuses are widespread in global food supply chains – from forced …
A different approach to water management in Nepal
Poul Due Jensen FoundationHow a financially viable management model could work to ensure sustained safe water access for communities long after project’s end.
When failure is an option
Lyndsay StecherInnovative, unfiltered, and impact-driven. Lyndsay Stecher describes what it means for Oxfam to work in partnership with trusts and foundations. Everything we do at Oxfam is possible because of funding. …
Investors driving better quality jobs
Rachel WilshawRachel Wilshaw, Oxfam GB’s Ethical Trade Manager, explains why investors are key to improving working conditions in global supply chains. At the World Economic Forum in January, an exchange between …
Are supermarket canned tomatoes now free from labour exploitation?
Tim GoreTim Gore shares three key findings from Oxfam’s human rights impact assessment of the Italian processed tomato sector. There have been a range of media and NGO reports in recent …
Taxing wealth is key to fighting inequality
Didier JacobsConventional wisdom about taxing wealth is shifting, writes Didier Jacobs, Oxfam America’s Senior Policy Advisor. Long dismissed as unfeasible, and frowned upon as politically incorrect, radical ideas are now gaining …
Making markets work in fragile settings
Shekhar AnandOxfam OPT’s Economic Justice team shares four lessons learned from their market system development (MSD) work with small-scale farmers in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT). Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian …
Should companies act when civic freedoms are under attack?
Mauricio Lazala and Ana ZbonaMauricio Lazala and Ana Zbona, from the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, discuss how companies can help support civic freedoms and human rights defenders in the countries where they …