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Over a quarter of a billion more people could crash into extreme levels of poverty in 2022 because of COVID-19, rising global inequality and the shock of food price rises supercharged by the war in Ukraine, reveals a new Oxfam brief today. 

Responding to the WTO’s published ‘outcome’ of negotiations over a waiver of Trade-Related aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS), Max Lawson, Head of Inequality Policy for Oxfam and co-chair of the People's Vaccine Alliance, said: "This text is a recognition that WTO rules on intellectual property are a clear barrier to ensuring people get the vaccines, tests, and treatments they need. It is a tragedy that it has taken almost two years and millions of deaths to reach this point and a travesty that the action proposed today falls well short of what is needed."

The gap between where companies pay tax and where they really do their business is huge, as shown by new research described in this briefing.

The Netherlands is a top EU tax haven for corporations, an Oxfam analysis of European Commission data shows.

Establishing a new Global Climate Fund that is fair, accessible and accountable, and agreeing on a pathway for a binding agreement, are essential building blocks that must be achieved in Cancun.

Tax havens deprive governments around the world of billions of dollars each year, fuelling inequality and poverty. The EU blacklisting process was announced as an attempt to put an end to the era of tax havens. Unfortunately – according to Oxfam research – the EU is set to whitewash some of the world’s worst tax havens.

On the newly published UN Synthesis Report on the post-2015 framework, which sets the global development agenda for the next 15 years: Oxfam is disappointed that the UN has not made far stronger proposals to address extreme economic inequality and climate change in its new report.

Political leaders must put the interests of the people they represent over corporates and the super-rich if they are going to put a stop to tax scandals, like #ParadisePapers, said Oxfam today.Susana Ruiz, tax policy advisor for Oxfam, said:“Paradise Papers exposes our leaders’ feeble attempts to stop tax cheats. Politicians' tough talk has translated into weak reforms under pressure from big business and the super-rich.“Tax dodging fuels poverty and inequality. When the super-rich and…

 The huge influence which global corporations such as Nike and Apple have over government policy making is laid bare in the latest revelations from…

Oxfam's priority is to stand fully by the survivors of such reprehensible behavior - and to ensure that such behavior is absolutely rooted out of our organization. We stand firmly against the exploitation and abuse of women and girls.