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Following Oxfam’s January report revealing that just 85 people owned the same wealth as the bottom half the world’s population, Forbes has updated its “billionaires' list”, showing that extreme inequality has worsened– just 67 people at the top now own half the wealth.

The UN Security Council’s visit to Sudan must focus on helping to resolve key outstanding issues and protect civilians from harm ahead of the referendum on southern independence, international agency Oxfam said today.

Today, the world produces enough to feed all seven billion of its inhabitants – but nearly a billion people still go without.

This report deals with the issues, or rather, with the responses to the 2012 food crisis in the Sahel, from a gender perspective.

African leaders must build a new more 'human economy' to tackle inequality and poverty, said Oxfam today ahead of the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Africa. The meeting, which takes place in Durban from 3 – 5 May, will bring political and business leaders together from across the continent to discuss how to achieve inclusive growth. New data on top incomes from the Brookings Institute reveals that levels of inequality in many African countries are far higher than previously thought. Seven of the 20 most unequal countries in the world are African: Swaziland is the world’s most unequal…

Responding to the UK Government's decision to launch a legal challenge to plans for a European Financial Transaction Tax, Nicolas Mombrial, Oxfam EU policy adviser, said:

On Robin Hood tax/financial transaction tax Speaking at the G20 finance ministers meeting, Max Lawson, Oxfam spokesperson, said: “While the G20 squabbles, poor people from Greece to Ghana

Today France and Germany’s leaders met in Paris to set out their

Governments across Europe are planning to divert scarce development aid budgets to cover security and defense costs, anti-poverty campaigners understand.

Based on a survey by Oxfam International and Save the ChildrenIn the Sahel region of West Africa, the ability to access food has become the key issue in terms of food securi