Search results

Oxfam spokesperson Caroline Pearce said: On economic growth:

The Food and Agricultural Organisation's Food Price Index has today revealed that global food prices have remained at peak levels.

This collated research report is based on formative research from 12 countries across Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean and the Pacific. The report identifies dominant and common patterns in the social norms that perpetuate violence against women and girls.

The situation facing working women, their changing patterns of work and the hardships and disadvantages they face have a profound potential to reshape the world we live in. This report seeks to explore the challenges and opportunities facing Europe’s working women, particularly those in precarious and low-paid work.

The 57th meeting of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW 57), the global policy making body f

Oxfam reaction to the “1000 Days to Improve Child Nutrition” MDG Summit side event, co-hosted by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Micheal Martin, Irish Foreign Affairs Minister:

In response to the speech by President Obama at Ban Ki-moon’s UN Climate Summit, Raymond C. Offenheiser, President of Oxfam America said,“President Obama's speech today was encouraging and the Administration’s recent actions to curb emissions demonstrate leadership, but US policy on the whole does not reflect the urgency of the President’s rhetoric. The President reemphasized the Administration’s ongoing promise to meet its existing emissions targets and set new ones. However, it will be impossible to fulfill the agreements made in the Copenhagen Accord to keep global emissions in…

World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim today announ

Today the shape of the new European Parliament was revealed, with the results marred by weak turnout and a ri

Today EU leaders recognised the need to ramp up efforts to combat tax dodging, but failed to agree on a