Search results

The “Global Report on Food Crises”, released today by the Food Security Information Network, says that more than 113 million people across 53 countries experienced acute hunger and required urgent food, nutrition and livelihoods assistance in 2018. This is a human-made crisis caused by conflict, climate change, and a broken global food system, says Oxfam France’s Executive Director Cécile Duflot.

Oxfam welcomed commitments by France, Germany and the UK to make it mandatory for oil, gas and mining companies to publish data regarding their payments in resource-rich countries.

Millions of people forced to flee the fighting in Pakistan’s Swat Valley struggled to receive vital aid because the international community provided too little help, too late, according to a report released today by international aid agency Oxfam.

Oxfam is pleased that several multinational companies  attended a hearing in front of the European Parliament’s TAXE committee on Monday. The firms had initially refused to do so.Oxfam’s EU policy advisor for inequality and taxation, Aurore Chardonnet, said: “Companies decided to show up thanks to growing public and political pressure. This indicates they are starting to realize they will no longer get away with secretive tax deals and that transparency in business is the way forward. Opinion polls show that the vast majority of European citizens are in favor of tougher rules…

Rice, soy beans, corn, wheat and palm oil together lead to more greenhouse gas emissions than any country’s individual footprint, apart from China and the United States, according to new Oxfam research into the food industry and climate change.

The EU’s new global investment and development strategy, the Global Gateway, risks diverting the aid budget to big business, a new report by Counter Balance, Eurodad and Oxfam reveals. “Who profits from the Global Gateway? The EU’s new strategy for development cooperation” finds that over 60 percent of projects analysed benefit at least one European company. 

Oxfam regrets that its name has been used for profit and the inconveniences caused to people affected by a false recruitment announcement via Facebook of 20 vacancies in our offices in Haiti.

The Netherlands is a top EU tax haven for corporations, an Oxfam analysis of European Commission data shows.

Oxfam India partner made repeated criticisms about lack of money, poor quality food and lack of monitoring of free school meals program in Bihar New Delhi, July 17: Oxfam India de

International agency Oxfam appealed to the UK government to ensure that training on international humanitarian and human rights law is prioritized in its dispatch of military advisors to Mali.