Money flowing illicitly into tax havens could pay entire education budget of Kenya and Tanzania During the two days of the G8 Summit, which starts today, $2.2 billion in illicit flows will have haemorrhaged from developing countries into tax havens (1) and land one and a half times the size of Manhattan sold off to […]
History will be made today at the United Nations as many governments sign an Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) designed to protect millions living in daily fear of armed violence and at risk of rape, assault, displacement and death. More than 500,000 people are killed by armed violence every year. The Arms Trade Treaty, the first […]
A new era of high and volatile food prices goes beyond affecting what people can afford to eat and is causing life-changing shifts in society, experts warn today. The report, Squeezed: Life in a time of food price volatility, reveals a global snap-shot of how the failure of wages to keep pace with five years […]
Governments and aid agencies have to tackle the politics and power at the heart of the increasing effects of climate change, rising inequality and people’s vulnerability to disasters according to a new report published today by international agency Oxfam. The report, No Accident: Resilience and the inequality of risk, shows that the risk of disaster […]
As the United Nations gears up for a final round of negotiations on the international Arms Trade Treaty, Oscar-nominated actor and Oxfam Ambassador Djimon Hounsou visited South Sudan, where he saw first-hand the devastation that the poorly regulated weapons trade is having on families and communities. Hounsou joins a number of Nobel Peace Prize winners, […]
An Oxfam project in Rwanda is helping entrepreneurial rural women get access to the techniques, markets and technology they need to set up thriving pineapple businesses. Women like Uwamwezi are already turning a profit, expanding their business, and have used the training to come up with new and improved methods of their own. Uwamwezi Mercianna […]
A decade after fighting began in the Darfur region of Sudan, the 3.4 million people there who still require humanitarian assistance are watching a tenuous security situation deteriorate further still. Increasing conflict over the last months linked to disputes over land and mineral resources challenges the notion that Darfur is on a path to peace. […]
New Oxfam campaign ranks social policies of food and beverage companies The social and environmental policies of the world’s ten biggest food and beverage giants are not fit for modern purpose and need a major shake-up, says international agency Oxfam The “Big 10” food and beverage companies – that together make $1 billion-a-day – are […]
A framework for peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo, due to be signed today, will fail to end the suffering of millions of people in the east of the country unless concrete actions are now taken to ensure leaders stick to the deal and tackle key issues of land, ethnicity and development, international agency […]
Fears new fighting may be on the horizon after tens of thousands of people displaced in Jebel Amir gold producing area Tens of thousands of people who have fled fighting in the largest displacement in Darfur in recent years face a severe shortage of clean water and sanitation services, Oxfam warned today. The agency called […]
