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“It is irresponsible for the World Bank to promote the deregulation of labor and the dismantling of the rights that workers have long fought for," said Nadia Daar, head of Oxfam's Washington office.

Responding to reports that around 20 countries have committed to stop financing overseas fossil fuel projects by the end of 2022, Oxfam's climate policy lead Nafkote Dabi said: "This is an encouraging move that will divert much-needed resources to clean energy and help countries to develop in a low carbon way. Energy is vital to economic and social development, burning fossil fuels is not. This is the only way we can meet the collective goal of limiting global heating to 1.5°C."

We are living through an unprecedented moment of multiple crises. Tens of millions more people are facing hunger. Hundreds of millions more face impossible rises in the cost of basic goods or heating their homes.

Millions of women and men who produce our food are trapped in poverty and face brutal working conditions, despite billion-dollar profits in the food industry, reveals a new report published by Oxfam.   

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) today publishes a major new report on global corporate taxation: “Spillov

Oxfam dismissed claims by the government of Bermuda that there are serial errors in the agency's report on the world’s worst tax havens today.  The UK overseas territory earned the top spot in Oxfam's list of corporate tax havens because of its corporate income tax rate of zero percent and its lack of enthusiasm for international cooperation against tax avoidance. In 2012, US multinational corporations reported more profits in Bermuda than in Japan, China, Germany and France combined.Esme Berkhout, tax policy advisor for Oxfam said:“Bermuda’s claim that Oxfam’s…

The Philippines office of international humanitarian organization Oxfam has been activating contingency plans and readying stocks of emergency assistance

In 2015 we celebrated world leaders’ recognition of the foundational and strategic role that sustainable land management must play to advance biodiversity conservation and climate resilience.

Eight of ten Europeans say laws need to change to clamp down on the use of tax havens, a poll published on Tuesday shows.

Today marks a historic day in Somalia, as parliament elected Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, as the country's new president.