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Responding to the Rio de Janeiro G20 Ministerial Declaration on International Tax Cooperation published today, Oxfam International’s Tax Policy Lead Susana Ruiz, said: "This is serious global progress —for the first time in history, the world’s largest economies have agreed to cooperate to tax the ultra-rich. Finally, the richest people are being told they can't game the tax system or avoid paying their fair share." 

Actress Kristin Davis has been visiting the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya with Oxfam, to see the devastating impact of the drought. More than 10 million people are facing desperate food shortages in the worst food crisis of the 21st century.

A High Level Panel to explore new ways of raising $100 billion a year to help poor countries adapt climate change and reduce their emissions was launched by the prime ministers of the UK and Ethiopia and the UN Secretary General today.

Traumatized, exhausted and half-starved civilians who have fled Sri Lanka’s conflict zone are being housed in camps without decent water and sanitation facilities and with inadequate food supplies, international aid agency Oxfam said today.

Model and photographer Helena Christensen has returned to her Peruvian roots, her mother's native country, to document the dramatic effects that climate change is having on people today.

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – The first National Climate Change Conference was held today in an effort to bring about coordinated and urgent action from all sectors on mitigation and adaptation to climate change in Ethiopia.

This decision marks a dangerous escalation in the ongoing illegal occupation of Palestinian territory, a brazen act of erasure carried out in full view.

In response to the outcome of COP30, Oxfam Brasil Executive Director Viviana Santiago said: 

This learning review examines Oxfam’s partnership-centered humanitarian response in Ukraine, implemented following the full-scale invasion and designed from the outset to support local humanitarian leadership (LHL) and feminist principles.

Despite commitment to end AIDS, the US government is introducing stronger intellectual property rules through trade agreements and bilateral pressure that will undermine the fight against AIDS by devastating the ability of developing countries to access affordable anti-retroviral medicines.