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“It’s great to hear tough talk from both Jim Kim and Christine Lagarde on ending tax havens. We’ve seen this happen time and time again: when the richest fail to pay their fair share, the budgets for education, health, and other social services that the poorest depend on, are the first to get slashed," said Chris Stalker, acting head of Oxfam International's Washington office.

Despite some advances, progress towards meeting aid and development effectiveness targets is flat-lining, according to a report published by the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation. 

UN announces that hunger levels in Yemen have jumped by 20 percent since June 2016. 

Escalation of fighting around Yemen’s port city of Hodeidah threatens to cut off essential supplies to millions of people who are already one step away from famine. 

     

Oxfam praised today’s announcement that President Obama will attend the United Nations conference on climate change in Copenhagen next month.

One year after South Sudan’s independence on July 9, the young country is facing its worst humanitarian crisis since the end of the war in 2005, under the weight of severe economic meltdown and ongoing conflict. Long-term and emergency efforts to help nearly half the population, who don’t have enough to eat, could be derailed by an economy out of control.

The biggest names in the food and drink industry are not doing enough to stop land grabs and conflicts in their supply chains.

Aid actors estimate that $8.7 billion is needed in 2015 to support 18 million people in Syria and neighbouring countries, the equivalent to a little more than one US dollar per person per day.

The proposed European Union (EU) investment plan could receive an annual boost of €120 billion in public money if Europe clamped down on tax dodging, says Oxfam.The worldwide organization released this new figure as EU leaders meet today to discuss the €315bn investment proposal put forward by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker to kick-start Europe's economy. Juncker believes the €315bn needed could be raised from a €21bn investment fund, assuming every euro invested produces 15 in return. However, most European Investment Bank (EIB) evaluations show…