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Responding to a speech by the president of the World Bank, Oxfam's Nadia Daar said: "The Bank must guarantee that in any dealings with the private sector, reducing poverty, protecting the environment, and helping communities will take priority over financial gain.
As G7 foreign ministers meeting in Lucca, Italy, failed to reach agreement on sanctions, Oxfam has called for a renewed push on Syria peace talks.
Rich countries are exaggerating how much they are spending to tackle poverty and inequality in poor countries.
Oxfam, CARE International, International Rescue Committee, Norwegian Refugee Council and Save the Children have called for more international action from world leaders meeting in Brussels at a conference to discuss the Syria crisis.
One year on from the Panama Papers scandal and our political leaders are still not standing up to tax havens.
It is shameful to see European banks again involved in a major global money laundering scandal.
A world where more new billionaires have been created in a year than ever before shows signs of economic sickness rather than health.
Responding to the verdict in the retrial of the LuxLeaks whistleblowers, Max Lawson, Oxfam’s Inequality Policy Lead said: “Whistleblowers who expose tax dodging should be praised, not punished."
UN announces that hunger levels in Yemen have jumped by 20 percent since June 2016.
At the EU summit in Brussels today, EU leaders have decided to stick to their migration policies which aim at increasing restrictions on movement.
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