Nine of the G20 countries have failed to deliver adequate support in the fight against Ebola, and summit host Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott is yet to grasp the full economic significance of the outbreak, Oxfam said today.
Oxfam reaction to OECD’s roadmap to include developing countries in international tax reform More developing countries are set to become involved in reforming the global tax system in an effort to ensure that multinational corporations are taxed where their real economic activities take place. This is according to a new roadmap presented by the Organisation […]
Oxfam will be in Brisbane and commenting on issues, including the following – Inequality – Oxfam is calling on the G20 to address inequality in the Brisbane Action Plan. Inequality is a serious and growing global problem that affects the pace and sustainability of economic growth and derails poverty alleviation. Global tax reform – […]
G20 Leaders meeting in Brisbane, Australia this weekend (15 and 16 November) are being urged to tackle rising inequality head-on or risk leaving millions of people trapped in poverty, as new figures reveal the wealth disparity in a number of G20 countries. Oxfam’s report ahead of the G20, Turn the Tide, reveals that since the […]
The World Economic Forum’s warning on inequality is a wake-up call to G20 leaders that they must put the issue squarely on the G20 agenda next weekend in Brisbane. Oxfam Australia’s Chief Executive Dr Helen Szoke said the World Economic Forum’s report just released, Outlook on the Global Agenda, places ‘deepening income inequality’ at the […]
Natural disasters have been costing Asia approximately $60 billion a year for the past two decades, and yet governments around the region have still not adequately prioritised disaster risk reduction, according to a report released by Oxfam ahead of the first anniversary of super-typhoon Haiyan.
Oxfam welcomes the Australian Government’s announcement that it has secured an agreement guaranteeing medical treatment and evacuation arrangements for Australian citizens responding to the outbreak in West Africa, as well as $24 million worth of additional support to respond to the crisis.
International aid agency Oxfam has welcomed the Australian Government’s announcement of $4.5 million to boost Fairtrade between small community producers in the Pacific and in Indonesia with regional and international markets.
Oxfam Australia Trading General Manager Julia Sumner said the investment highlighted the importance that trade plays in helping to lift people out of poverty.
Oxfam is on the ground in West Africa working to stop the spread of Ebola. We have so far reached 429,000 people in Liberia and Sierra Leone through community health and water, sanitation and hygiene programs, and 2.3 million people through public communications to educate people on how to best protect themselves from catching the disease. We aim […]
Today marks the half way point in the UN’s 60 day Ebola response plan to bring the outbreak under control by the end of November and while progress is being made, more needs to be done to contain the disease before this window closes.