Amitabh Behar

Executive Director: @Oxfam/ Opinions are my own

[Amitabh Behar @AmitabhBehar]

Check my latest piece on the @UN Secretary General election on @ipsnews
The United Nations in a Time of Opportunity & Uncertainty: a Time to Choose.
The argument of the article is clear. See thread below
https://t.co/2u3UEroUEb

[Amitabh Behar @AmitabhBehar]

"Humanitarianism is not collapsing. It is being traded and compromised"

This is the title of my latest opinion piece published yesterday in @AJEnglish for the #WorldHumanitarianDay

https://t.co/wryvPBsK4f

The numbers are clear:
-At least 1,000 aid workers have been killed over the past three years — nearly three times the toll of the previous three.
-At @Oxfam we have lost five colleagues and partner staff over the past eight years, and more than 1,300 of our people have been caught up in at least 1,200 security incidents.

@UN @UNReliefChief @hadjalahbib

#JustBeHuman

[Oxfam International Media Team @newsfromoxfam]

"Remembrance without accountability becomes a tolerance of the unjustifiable."

On World Humanitarian Day, @AmitabhBehar argues humanitarianism is not collapsing, it is being traded and compromised. #JustBeHuman

https://t.co/RMErsfMqFD
#WHD2026

[Pathfinders @SDG16Plus]

“Inequality.”

💬 This term is invoked so frequently, and so loosely, that its opposite—equality—can start to sound less like a real goal and more like a decorative phrase in policy speeches and academic debate.

Part of what makes inequality so challenging to tackle is that we struggle to agree on what it even is.

Countries define it differently, measure it differently, and respond to it differently. Yet whatever the approach, as @amitabhbehar, Executive Director of @Oxfam International, has argued, “ending inequality is a political choice.”

Some hold that a degree of inequality is inherent to any society and lies beyond the reach of political will, but on one point there is little disagreement: reducing it, or at least trying to, is a choice

⏩ Our newest analysis authored by Jeronimo Pareja-Cardona, @SDG16Plus Program Officer, follows that “choice” through three moments. Before anyone can reduce inequality, someone has to define it, decide how to measure it, and choose how to respond; and none of those steps are neutral.

Download “ No Neutral Number: The Politics of Defining and Measuring Inequality” today 🔻 https://t.co/hLdkEMkNcf

#Inequality #PublicPolicy #MeasuringInequality

[Makarand (मकरंद) (مکرند) @Makarand_S]

Read: "Humanitarianism is not collapsing. It is being traded and compromised" writes @AmitabhBehar

https://t.co/k6sDoVb21D via @AJEnglish

[Oxfam International @Oxfam]

READ: "World Humanitarian Day is about remembering all humanitarian workers who lost their lives while caring for others.

But remembrance without accountability and action becomes a tolerance of the unjustifiable. We must do better" - @AmitabhBehar #JustBeHuman

https://t.co/a9UyycjVXZ

[Amitabh Behar @AmitabhBehar]

Whoever is elected will need to address today's world challenges under five key areas: lead the UN to champion the global fight against inequality; put humanity at the center; place climate justice at the heart of the UN agenda; envision a feminist future and protect a UN where civil society is not silenced.

[Amitabh Behar @AmitabhBehar]

Check my latest piece on the @UN Secretary General election on @ipsnews
The United Nations in a Time of Opportunity & Uncertainty: a Time to Choose.
The argument of the article is clear. See thread below
https://t.co/2u3UEroUEb

[Amitabh Behar @AmitabhBehar]

Of the six candidates currently in the race, four are women, Michelle Bachelet, Rebeca Grynspan, María Fernanda Espinosa and Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett. Their credentials leave no doubt that the UN has highly qualified women ready to lead.

[Inter Press Service @ipsnews]

The UN has had nine Secretaries-General in 81 years, all men. Now, we have a historic opportunity to correct that record: four of the six candidates for the next term are women, writes @AmitabhBehar https://t.co/a0Qz05Qf22

[Inter Press Service @ipsnews]

Inequality must finally move to the centre of the UN agenda: establishing an International Panel on Inequality, modelled on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, will be a vital next step in tackling the inequality emergency, writes @AmitabhBehar https://t.co/a0Qz05Qf22

[Inter Press Service @ipsnews]

The UN has had nine Secretaries-General in 81 years, all men. Now, we have a historic opportunity to correct that record: four of the six candidates for the next term are women, writes @AmitabhBehar https://t.co/a0Qz05Qf22

[Miguel de la Vega @mig_delavega]

"How to rebuild hope" An Op Ed on current world context from @AminataTouré former Prime Minister of Senegal and @AmitabhBehar Executive Director at Oxfam International https://t.co/Zt30PPhTs4

[Oxfam International Media Team @newsfromoxfam]

.@aminatatoureklk and @AmitabhBehar advocate for a renewed multilateralism to combat #inequality, climate injustice, and democratic erosion in @democrata_info.

https://t.co/LclBymw0uG

[Club de Madrid @ClubdeMadrid]

🌍 How do we rebuild hope amid inequality, climate injustice and democratic backsliding?

In a new @democrata_info op-ed, @ClubdeMadrid Member & former PM of Senegal @aminatatoureklk and @Oxfam Exec. Director @AmitabhBehar argue today's world lacks political will, not solutions

[Oxfam International Media Team @newsfromoxfam]

Nine Secretaries General. Eighty-one years. All men.
Four of six candidates are women. As the Council heads into its straw polls, the question isn't whether a woman can lead the UN. It's whether the P5 will allow it. @AmitabhBehar for @ipsnews

https://t.co/PooXI7V9hx

#UNSG

[demócrata @democrata_info]

✍️ #OPINIÓN | Cómo reconstruir la esperanza, por Amitabh Behar (@AmitabhBehar) y Aminata Touré (@aminatatoureklk).

Aminata Touré, ex primera ministra de Senegal y miembro del Club de Madrid (@ClubdeMadrid), y Amitabh Behar, director ejecutivo de Oxfam (@Oxfam) Internacional, defienden un multilateralismo renovado para combatir la desigualdad, la injusticia climática y la erosión democrática.

📲 Todos los detalles en Demócrata: https://t.co/2lnmM0nUni

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

AI risks pushing the world towards even greater inequalities, deeper divides in income, opportunity & security, & greater gaps between North & South.

We cannot let that happen.

We must ensure that artificial intelligence becomes a force for greater inclusion & shared progress.

[Project Syndicate @ProSyn]

The same governments that put forward wealth levies in the global arena often impose austerity or avoid taxing the rich at home, @fightinequality’s @jenny_ricks observes. https://t.co/TCWjBSOT4t