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Major European banks and investors are backing Glencore’s toxic mining activities in Colombia and Peru. This is according to a new report by Fair Finance International, Oxfam, CooperAcción, Cinep and Censat. The report reveals that nearly 50 percent of loans and underwriting to Glencore over the last six years came from European banks like UBS and Société Generale, amounting to 41.2 billion euro.  

Oxfam leaders, experts, and partners attend the World Summit for Social Development to sustain the focus and urgency for strong, inequality busting, publicly financed and accountable services, which are both a moral imperative and a strategic investment. 

The European Commission is putting the interests of multinational drug companies above those of millions of people with no access to affordable life-saving medicines, warn Oxfam and Health Action International.

Bermuda, the Netherlands, Ireland and Luxembourg are among the world’s 15 worst corporate tax havens, according to new Oxfam research published today.

Dirty industries are blocking the European Union from making more ambitious cuts to its greenhouse gas emissions while, at the same time, making millions in profits from existing environment policy, says a new report by international agency Oxfam.

Climate talks in June will go nowhere unless rich countries close the gap between what scientists and poor countries say is needed and what they are prepared to deliver warned international agency Oxfam, as negotiations came to a close in Bonn today.

As a global movement fighting for an equal and just world for everyone, we at Oxfam are celebrating Pride month as a way to express gratitude to our LGBTQIA+ partner organizations and activists for their contribution to social progress, human rights and equality. Here’s our take on what queer joy is and why we need more of it.

Loss has become a constant theme in my life since Israel’s genocide in Gaza which saw war come again to Lebanon.  It has remained with me ever since. On October 13, 2023, my friend Issam Abdalla was targeted and killed by an Israeli missile while reporting on Israel’s early attacks on Southern Lebanese villages. The loss and grief were palpable.  The murder of a very dear friend with total impunity, and with whom I shared dreams for the future, brought so much unresolved anger and deep injustice. It is heart crushing to live with this…

Despite commitment to end AIDS, the US government is introducing stronger intellectual property rules through trade agreements and bilateral pressure that will undermine the fight against AIDS by devastating the ability of developing countries to access affordable anti-retroviral medicines.

Rich country donors and the World Bank are wasting money and risking lives by continuing to push unproven and discredited private healthcare programs in poor countries. Oxfam’s warning comes in a new report ‘Blind Optimism: Challenging the myths about private health care in poor countries’.