Australia must show it is serious about revenue and tax transparency in the extractives sector and implement the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) in Australia. The call from the Publish What you Pay coalition (PWYP) comes as the G20 Anti-Corruption Working Group meets this week (16 – 18 Oct) in Paris and the Board of […]
International agency Oxfam is planning to triple its Ebola prevention program in Sierra Leone and needs at least $18 million to help 2.5 million people at risk of catching the disease.
Oxfam Australia has today welcomed the confirmation by the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister that the overseas aid budget will not be ransacked again.
The landmark Arms Trade Treaty, designed to control the trade in deadly weapons that fuel armed conflict around the world, will become international law before the end of the year, with seven countries today agreeing to ratify the international agreement at the United Nations, in New York.
Coles today joins a group of forward-thinking Australian and international companies that have published the locations of overseas factories where their garments are made in an effort to improve conditions for workers. International aid agency Oxfam, which has been talking with Coles for the past two years about the rights of factory workers, has responded to […]
The Australian Government has missed a prime opportunity to increase its humanitarian aid to Syria, failing to bring money to the table at a high level UN General Assembly meeting in New York yesterday.
Oxfam Australia is calling on the Abbott government to increase its humanitarian aid to Syria at a UN pledging conference in New York on Tuesday.
On the eve of the UN Climate Summit, Oxfam has released research showing that since global leaders last met in Copenhagen to discuss climate change five years ago, climate-related disasters have cost the world almost half a trillion dollars. Oxfam Australia climate change policy advisor Simon Bradshaw said that given tens of thousands of Australians […]
Oxfam welcomes some progress at this weekend’s G20 finance ministers meeting in Cairns that could help put an end to tax dodging by multinational corporations, but the aid agency said the most transformative changes to rebalance the global tax system are still off the agenda. Oxfam Australia Policy Manager Jo Pride said given tax-dodging by multinationals drained around […]
Tax. It’s a dirty word for many. But it’ll be on the lips of all the G20 finance ministers at this weekend’s meeting in Cairns (20 & 21 Sep), as they forge ahead with the next steps towards reforming a global tax system tied together around a multitude of loopholes. Tax shouldn’t be a dirty […]