Policy Papers

In an advisory opinion, rendered on 9 July 2004, the International Court of Justice stated that Israel’s construction of the Wall in the occupied Palestinian Territory was ille

The World Trade Organization’s Doha Development Round was meant to rebalance decades of unfair rules in agriculture and address the needs of developing countries.

'Suffering the Science' combines the latest scientific observations on

High in the Andean hillsides of Peru, Jose Gonzalez Condo, an alpaca farmer, does not have enough money to feed and shelter his herd.

This report gathers people’s observations of climate change in Malawi and what it means for their lives and livelihoods.

It is the world’s biggest and fastest human displacement in over a decade.

Mali is one of the poorest countries in the world, and, despite indisputable improvements in getting more children into school in the last two decades, the goal of guaranteeing a qua

Climate change offers humanity no second chances.

This report aims to identify key challenges arising from reform of the health-care system in Georgia, especially in primary health care, and to present some possible strategies to ad

In June 2009 the blockade on the Gaza Strip enters its third year.

The world, and most of all, its poor people, desperately needs a fair and safe climate deal to be agreed at the UN talks in Copenhagen in December.

Big business has the power to make or break a fair and safe global deal to fight climate change in December 2009.

Proponents of global sectoral industry approaches, such as the World Business Council on Sustainable Development, argue that sectoral approaches could help level the international pl

Last year poor people around the world endured the consequences of the food and energy price crisis.

On 12 May 2008, the worst earthquake to hit China in 50 years destroyed lives and livelihoods in western China.

International humanitarian aid provides relief to tens of millions of people each year: in 2007 to more than 43 million people through UN humanitarian appeals alone.

Every day, governments around the world give authorization for the export and transfer of weapons. These decisions affect the lives of millions of people.

By 2015 more than 375m people are likely to be affected by climate related disasters – a projected increase of 54% – and this threatens to overwhelm the world’s cur

G20 leaders met for the second time in London on 2 April, as the global economic crisis began to crash across the borders of poor countries with ever-greater severity.

New research by Oxfam International uncovers a hidden aspect of the global economic crisis – its impact on women.