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Urgent call for tighter rules on arms trade on eve of final treaty negotiations

12 March 2013

Draft Arms Trade Treaty text littered with loopholes which need fixing urgently to save lives.

Artists write to UN leader Ban Ki-moon on “a matter of life and death”

2 July 2012

International artists including Keira Knightly, Yoko Ono, Scarlett Johansson, Coldplay, Tim Roth, Annie Lennox and Kevin Spacey have joined forces to demand governments take immediate action to help improve regulation of the international arms trade.

Ammunition trade tops $4 billion yet little regulation to control and keep track of who bullets are sold to

30 May 2012

Global sales of ammunition are worth more than $4 billion and are growing at a faster rate than trade in guns, yet there is virtually no regulation in place to control where the bullets end up.

Arms Trade Treaty long overdue, as new research shows billions spent on illicit weapons deals by states under embargo

2 May 2012

More than $2.2 billion worth of arms and ammunition have been imported since 2000 by countries operating under arms embargoes, according to new figures released today by international humanitarian agency Oxfam.

Verdict still out on whether Busan is a good deal for poor countries

1 December 2011

Reacting to the outcome of the Busan aid negotiations, Oxfam said donors had put off important decisions about how to improve aid.

European governments U-turn on the poor as economic crisis grips

14 May 2009

As poor countries face the full impact of the economic crisis, European governments are falling short by nearly €40bn (USD$55m) on their aid promises and will not meet their 2010 aid target until 2012, a new report from CONCORD reveals.

Sales of parts for weapons must be as tightly regulated as sale of weapons themselves

27 June 2012

The prospective new international Arms Trade Treaty must regulate the sale of parts and components being used to maintain or manufacture deadly weapons and military equipment, according to a new report by Oxfam.

US joins Arms Trade Treaty talks, but at high price

15 October 2009

New York: Today’s announcement by the USA of support for the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) was welcomed by Oxfam International and Amnesty International, warning that Washington’s support comes at a very high price. Giving any Member State veto power would weaken not strengthen future Treaty.

Compromise on the EU budget will put millions of people on the line

6 February 2013

Oxfam estimates that the proposed EU aid cuts could be enough to have lifted more than 4.6 million people in the poorest countries out of extreme poverty. The proposed cuts to emergency aid alone would mean the EU is turning a blind eye on the plight of 150 million people affected by disasters or conflicts.

“Terrifying prospect” of over a quarter of a billion more people crashing into extreme levels of poverty and suffering this year

12 April 2022

Over a quarter of a billion more people could crash into extreme levels of poverty in 2022 because of COVID-19, rising global inequality and the shock of food price rises supercharged by the war in Ukraine, reveals a new Oxfam brief today.