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Remarkable progress has been made in the last ten years toward achieving the education-related Millennium Development Goals.

A 5-point plan to stop big corporations cheating poor countries out of billions of dollars in tax revenue, was published by Oxfam today in the wake of the Mauritius Leaks.

Climate change is already negatively affecting the lives and livelihoods of poor men and women.

Leaders of the world’s major economies meeting in Washington must urgently address the action rich countries will take on global warming in order to revitalize international climate talks and tackle the serious climate impacts facing vulnerable developing countries.

Engaging with multilateral feminist spaces is often portrayed as a universal good. But for activists from the Global South, especially trans and gender-diverse advocates, these spaces are both a promise and a challenge. 

Governments are legally bound to ensure the right to food for all. Nevertheless, today there are one billion hungry people in the world and millions more are food insecure.

Emma Seery, Oxfam's spokesperson, said:

Big business has the power to make or break a fair and safe global deal to fight climate change in December 2009.

Today civil society organisations in Brussels are calling on European countries to raise their  ambition after the release of a ‘deeply disappointing’ collective EU position in the Council Conclusions ‘ahead of the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development’, taking place in Spain next month.