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Oxfam spokesperson Elizabeth Stuart said: IMF – Christine Lagarde

Reacting to the IPC announcement on the levels of hunger in the south of Yemen and their forecast for the months ahead, Oxfam’s Yemen Country Director, Muhsin Siddiquey said: “This new data shows how bleak the situation is for the millions of Yemenis struggling with hunger as conflict has decimated infrastructure, restricted food imports, and led to mass unemployment."  

International agency Oxfam said today that it has had to double its aid effort in Pakistan as the number of displaced goes over 2 million, making the crisis the greatest internal displacement of people in the country’s history.

Max Lawson, Oxfam International's Head of Inequality Policy at Oxfam, said: "The G7 had failed the Global South here in Hiroshima.  They failed to cancel debts, and they failed to find what is really required to end the huge increase in hunger worldwide. They can find untold billions to fight the war but can’t even provide half of what is needed by the UN for the most critical humanitarian crises."

More than 133,000 people who fled the fighting in North Kivu, in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), live in unimaginable conditions without one single toilet or water, posing serious consequences for their health and safety, warns Oxfam.

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said today at the G20 that he expects agreement on a Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) to be reached soon.

Louise Hancock, Oxfam's Afghanistan policy officer, said: “It’s been another conference of flowery speeches: big on rhetoric and short on substance.  

In response to President Obama’s climate plan announcement scheduled for this afternoon Gawain Kripke, research and policy director for Oxfam America said: 

Reacting to the largest number of displaced people in world since the Second World War, Shannon Scribner, Oxfa

Responding to German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s climate finance remarks made in Berlin today, Oxfam’s Climate Change Policy Advisor Jan Kowalzig said:“It’s refreshing to see Chancellor Merkel understanding how climate finance is key to securing success at the Paris COP in December. More rich countries must now follow her call to table a credible plan that ramps up climate support for developing nations, boosting the current US$35bn a year to an annual US$100bn by 2020.""But let’s be clear here - meeting the US$100bn target by 2020 would just be fulfilling a five year old…