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Regarding the Somalia Conference in London, Oxfam says:
Africa’s remarkable growth, driven in large part by a minerals and energy boom, is threatened by illicit capital outflows and widening income gaps.
Since 2007, Oxfam and our partner Hijra have collaborated to provide support for Somali families in need through cash programming.
In early January 2012, Oxfam launched an emergency response to the 2011-2012 food crisis in order to support some of the most vulnerable people in the region.
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Land eight times the size of the UK was sold off globally in the last decade, enough to grow food for a billion people, or the equivalent to the number of people who go hungry in the world today.
Oxfam Afghanistan's head of policy and advocacy, Louise Hancock, said:
Oxfam strongly welcomes the European Parliament’s vote against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) by a majority of 478 votes out of 682. ACTA would have posed a serious
The poorly regulated global trade in arms and ammunition weakens the ability and willingness of governments to sustain progress in development.
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