Oxfam supports the policies that Prime Minister Ardern showcased during the first day of the virtual Climate Summit hosted by the United States of America, and acknowledges their important contribution to stop global heating, but urges our Government to significantly ramp-up its ambition. Oxfam New Zealand’s Communications and Advocacy Director, Jo Spratt said: “despite being […]
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Pharmaceutical Giants Shell Out Billions to Shareholders as World Confronts Vaccine Apartheid
Total pay-outs enough to vaccinate 1.3 billion people, equal to the population of Africa Ahead of shareholder meetings for the giant pharmaceutical corporations, the People’s Vaccine Alliance calculates that Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca have paid out $26 billion in dividends and stock buybacks to their shareholders in the past 12 months. This would […]
Aid organisations call on governments to give a single day’s military spending to fight hunger
Only 26 hours of global military spending is enough to cover the $5.5 billion needed to help most at risk A year on since the UN warned of “famines of biblical proportions”, rich donors have funded just 5 percent of the UN’s $7.8bn food security appeal for 2021. More than 200 NGOs published an open letter today […]
Former heads of state and Nobel laureates call on President Biden to waive intellectual property rules for covid vaccines
New Zealand’s Former Prime Minister of New Zealand, and Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme Helen Clark has signed. More than 170 former heads of state and government and Nobel laureates, including former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Gordon Brown, former President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos, former President of Liberia Ellen Johnson […]
Slight increase in aid only a drop in the ocean to combat the Covid-19 crisis
Figures published today by the OECD show that development aid has slightly increased in 2020. While this rise provides a lifeline for millions of people living in poverty around the world, it’s simply not enough. With extreme poverty skyrocketing for the first time in over twenty years and increasing economic and gender inequality exacerbated by the Covid-19 […]
Timor-Leste’s most destructive floods in recent memory likely worsened by climate change, as COVID-19 threat looms: Oxfam
Almost half of the population of Timor-Leste’s capital has been impacted by severe flooding, according to government figures, after heavy rains fell on Dili and nearby provinces last week. Cyclone Seroja took the people of Timor-Leste by surprise, with the small nation previously not within the range of such extreme weather events. Oxfam in Timor-Leste’s […]
