Whois & Analysis for oxfamamerica.org

Oxfam is an international confederation of charitable organizations focused on the alleviation of global poverty.

Oxfam was founded at 17 Broad Street in Oxford, Oxfordshire, in 1942 as the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief by a group of Quakers, social activists, and Oxford academics; this is now Oxfam Great Britain, still based in Oxford.

It was one of several local committees formed in support of the National Famine Relief Committee.

Their mission was to persuade the British government to allow food relief through the Allied blockade for the starving citizens of occupied Greece.

The first overseas Oxfam was founded in Canada in 1963.

The organization changed its name to its telegraph address, OXFAM, in 1965.

Poverty is general scarcity or the state of one who lacks a certain amount of material possessions or money.

It is a multifaceted concept, which includes social, economic, and political elements.

Absolute poverty or destitution refers to the lack of means necessary to meet basic needs such as food, clothing and shelter.

Absolute poverty is meant to be about the same independent of location.

Relative poverty occurs when people in a country do not enjoy a certain minimum level of living standards as compared to the rest of the population and so would vary from country to country, sometimes within the same country.

In social science and politics, power is the ability to influence or outright control the behavior of people.

The term "authority" is often used for power perceived as legitimate by the social structure.

Power can be seen as evil or unjust, but the exercise of power is accepted as to humans as social beings.

In business, power is often expressed as being "upward" or "downward".

With downward power, a company's superior influences subordinates.

When a company exerts upward power, it is the subordinates who influence the decisions of their leader or leaders.

Globalization or globalisation (see spelling differences) is the action or procedure of international integration arising from the interchange of world views, products, ideas, and other aspects of culture.

Advances in transportation (such as the steam locomotive, steamship, jet engine, and container ships) and in telecommunications infrastructure (including the rise of the telegraph and its modern offspring, the Internet and mobile phones) have been major factors in globalization, generating further interdependence of economic and cultural activities.

Social movements are a type of group action.

They are large, sometimes informal, groupings of individuals or organizations which focus on specific political or social issues.

In other words, they carry out, resist, or undo a social change.