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This Briefing for Business is intended for senior managers in global and national companies, especially those producing and retailing food and fast-moving consumer goods.

Oxfam spokesperson Caroline Peace said: World Development Report: “Women do most of the world’s work but have a minority of the world’s jobs.

Arms expert Kathi Lynn Austin said:

With interviews to select a new president of the World Bank starting soon [April 9-11], a global coalition of campaigners have called on the World Bank's executive directors to ensure that

It is expected today that the UN General Assembly will pass a resolution on Universal Health Coverage (UHC), calling on UN member states to ensur

The European Commission's consultative communication published today marks t

Responding to the World Economic Forum's Outlook on the Global Agenda, which places "Deepening Income Inequality" at the top of its list of concerns for world leaders in 2015, Kevin Roussel, Head of Oxfam International's Inequality Campaign said:   "These findings are the latest wake-up call for world leaders to get to grips with the explosion in extreme inequality, which has resulted in 85 people owning as much as the poorest 3.5 billion people on the planet."The growing body of evidence that inequality is a threat…

Responding to David Cameron’s call for a global crackdown on corruption by G7 leaders meeting in Germany for their annual summit this weekend, Jorn Kalinksi, Oxfam G7 spokesperson said:“David Cameron’s is right to put a spotlight on corruption which is a problem for all countries across the globe.  Corruption wastes valuable resources that could be used to tackle poverty. It exacerbates inequality as the richest write the rules of the game in their favour and leave the rest behind.    "In 2010 alone, G7-based companies cheated Africa out of an estimated $US6…

"The outcome of the Nairobi summit signals a renewed commitment to development effectiveness that is critical to ending poverty. Rich, donor countries must get behind this agenda, not undermine it, especially as our world faces huge, unprecedented humanitarian challenges," said Oxfam International's executive director, Winnie Byanyima. 

The proposed EU climate law is a good framework for EU climate action over the next decades, Oxfam says. The Commission, national governments and the European Parliament now must enact the law and take swift and decisive action to drastically reduce climate-heating emissions.