• Oxfam is a British-founded confederation of 21 independent non-governmental organizations (NGOs), focusing on the alleviation of global poverty, founded...
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    Oxfam is the largest retailer of second-hand books in Europe, selling around 12 million per year. Most of Oxfam's 600 charity shops around the UK sell...
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  • Oxfam Australia is an Australian, independent, charity, not-for-profit, secular, community-based aid and development organization, and is an affiliate...
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    US$9.1 trillion, up from US$7.67 trillion in 2017. According to a 2017 Oxfam report, the top eight richest billionaires own as much combined wealth as...
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    From May 2013 until November 2019, she served as the executive director of Oxfam International. She served as the director of the Gender Team in the Bureau...
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  • lumber industry. They traditionally used swidden agriculture to grow yuca. Oxfam helped the Yine to secure ownership rights to their traditional farmlands...
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    The Oxfam Glamour Models are a noise rock band from Middlesbrough in the North East of England. They signed to Marquis Cha Cha records in 2006 but split...
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  • Oxfam Novib/PEN Award for Freedom of Expression is a literary award made in collaboration with PEN International Writers in Prison Committee, the PEN...
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  • The Melbourne International Comedy Festival Gala, or Oxfam Gala, is a comedy show run annually as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival...
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  • of Oxfam Canada in 1975. For his work with Oxfam Canada, he was the 1986 recipient of the Pearson Medal of Peace. Meyer was Chair Emeritus for Oxfam Canada...
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    Oxfam America president Raymond C. Offenheiser, Wendi Deng and Rupert Murdoch with MySpace co-founders Anderson and DeWolfe at the 2006 Oxfam/MySpace...
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    food: Oxfam". New York: Reuters U.S. Retrieved 1 September 2014. "Good Enough to Eat – Media Briefing" (PDF) (Press release). Boston, MA: Oxfam America...
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    of offshore financial centers is to avoid taxes", The Economist added. Oxfam blamed tax havens in its 2016 annual report on income inequality for much...
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    Anna (September 16, 2010). "Actress Charlyne Yi fights hunger with Oxfam". Oxfam America. Archived from the original on October 31, 2013. "Charlyne Yi...
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    on social issues and has worked extensively with Amnesty International, Oxfam, and Comic Relief. She is married to musician James Righton, with whom she...
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    also met the costs of heating and lighting.[citation needed] The first Oxfam charity shop in the United Kingdom was established by Cecil Jackson-Cole...
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  • using prostitutes at a villa whose rent was paid for by Oxfam with charitable funds. Oxfam's chief executive at the time, Dame Barbara Stocking, offered...
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  • Jo Cox (category Oxfam people)
    joined the international humanitarian charity Oxfam in 2001, where she became head of policy and advocacy at Oxfam GB in 2005. She was selected to contest the...
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    New Economics Foundation. Until December 2023, he was Chief Executive of Oxfam GB. Prior to that, Sriskandarajah was the Secretary General of CIVICUS,...
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  • and humanitarian. He was associated with a number of charities including Oxfam, Help the Aged and ActionAid. A devout Christian, Jackson-Cole set up charitable...
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    Trailtrekker are fundraising endurance events conducted across the world by Oxfam, in which teams of four competitors must complete a course of 100 kilometres...
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    Scardino became a trustee of Oxfam during her tenure at Pearson. She was criticized by Private Eye magazine because, while Oxfam campaigns against corporate...
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  • MP Tony Cunningham, and then as an advisor and advocacy professional for Oxfam, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) and the Marine Conservation...
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    Adumim, an Israeli settlement in the West Bank; Oxfam opposes all trade with such Israeli settlements. Oxfam stated that it was thankful for her contributions...
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    left-wing party La France Insoumise (LFI). A former advocacy officer for Oxfam France, she won a seat in the 2019 European Parliament election and the...
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  • launched Marks & Spencer's pop-up Halloween shop with Joanna Lumley in aid of Oxfam. In 2016, she presented Angela Scanlon's Close Encounters!, and the documentary...
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  • independent non-executive director of easyJet from 2011-2020. In July 2020, Oxfam announced that they had elected him to succeed Caroline Thomson as its chair...
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  • 2023. Hassan is involved with various philanthropic efforts. She is an Oxfam Sisters on the Planet ambassador. The goal of the organization is to end...
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    attributed to the first worldshop in Europe, which was founded by Oxfam in 1959. The Oxfam shop sold Chinese bric-a-brac that had been sourced from Chinese...
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    Joe Mitty (category Oxfam people)
    turned the first Oxfam gift shop into a national retail network of shops selling second hand clothing and other goods. This network put Oxfam on the high street...
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