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Credit Suisse’s annual Global Wealth Report, published today, reveals that wealth inequality continues to grow; the top 1 percent now own 48.2 percent of global wealth, up from 46 percent last year. Meanwhile the bottom half of humanity own just 1 percent of wealth.Their research reveals that before the financial crisis wealth inequality fell slightly in some countries, but since…

Oxfam calls on governments meeting at the London Somalia Conference tomorrow to develop a coherent strategy towards the country that shifts away from the emphasis on short term security and anti-terror concerns towards a long term engagement that prioritizes the interests of ordinary Somalis.

Oxfam spokesperson Luc Lampriere said:

In response to President Obama’s climate plan announcement scheduled for this afternoon Gawain Kripke, research and policy director for Oxfam America said: 

Kirsten Hagon, Oxfam’s Head of Office in New York said:

Anna Macdonald Head of Arms Control at Oxfam said:

Oxfam welcomes today’s announcement by the World Bank Group on a new Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition before the UN Climate Summit in New York. The Summit is meant to build political momentum towards a post-2020 climate agreement in Paris in 2015, with governments on the hook to make meaningful commitments to reduce their emissions and to deliver climate finance to the poorest, most vulnerable countries. Placing a…

Today news agency Reuters released details about a leaked legislative proposal from the

This learning review examines Oxfam’s partnership-centered humanitarian response in Ukraine, implemented following the full-scale invasion and designed from the outset to support local humanitarian leadership (LHL) and feminist principles.

The European Commission published today a paper on how to raise the $100 billion per year pledged by rich countries at last year’s UN climate talks in Cancun to help poor countries protect