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Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement could endanger lives of people needing affordable medicines

29 June 2010

As the next round of Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement negotiations get underway this week, Oxfam has called on the negotiating parties to ensure the Agreement does not erect new barriers that prevent generic medicines from reaching poor countries.
G20 draws a blank on poverty

27 June 2010

The G20 missed a golden opportunity to tackle global poverty when it could only agree to disagree over how to make banks repay the cost of the economic crisis, said international agency Oxfam.
G8's summit of shame fails poor people

26 June 2010

As the G8 Summit comes to a close, international agency Oxfam criticized the leaders for their failure to deliver on their promises and for trying to divert attention by cobbling together a small initiative for maternal and child health.
Minimal G8 Maternal Health Initiative sends disturbing message to women and girls

25 June 2010

Oxfam cautioned that the maternal and child health effort announced on Friday seems yet another empty G8 promise, given that the overall aid pie is shrinking.
Bounced checks undermine G8’s credibility

24 June 2010

On the eve of the G8 Summit in Canada, international agency Oxfam warned that G8 aid promises due in 2010 have been missed by as much as $20 billion dollars – twice the gap admitted by world leaders. The G8 must deliver on their promises to poor people and invest in their future.
Oxfam reacts to G8 Accountability Report

20 June 2010

"Despite their best efforts to put a positive gloss on their progress, the G8 report shows clearly that the promise made in Gleneagles in 2005 to increase aid will be broken," said Oxfam spokesperson
Europe is missing in action when it should be leading the charge

17 June 2010

2010 saw Europe missing their poverty targets and today Heads of State compounded this by failing to put new commitments on the table to achieve their 2015 aid targets and keep their promises to the world’s poorest people.
Oxfam reaction to Israel easing the blockade

17 June 2010

Following the announcement by the Israeli security cabinet that it will liberalize the system by which civilian goods enter Gaza and expand the inflow of materials for civilian projects under inter
Celebrities urge G8 leaders to reach Millennium Goals to save women and newborns

16 June 2010

Joint agency release: It is a global scandal that millions of women and newborn babies die or suffer severe injury during childbirth every year – despite the fact that the vast majority of these injuries and deaths are preventable.
Oxfam aid worker abducted in Chad is released

16 June 2010

Oxfam GB is delighted to confirm the release of their staff member, a Swiss national, Hubert Ballaman, who was abducted in Abéché on 6 June.

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Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement could endanger lives of people needing affordable medicines

G20 draws a blank on poverty

G8's summit of shame fails poor people

Minimal G8 Maternal Health Initiative sends disturbing message to women and girls

Bounced checks undermine G8’s credibility

Oxfam reacts to G8 Accountability Report

Europe is missing in action when it should be leading the charge

Oxfam reaction to Israel easing the blockade

Celebrities urge G8 leaders to reach Millennium Goals to save women and newborns

Oxfam aid worker abducted in Chad is released