Top 1% Responsible for Double the Carbon Emissions of Bottom Half: Oxfam

If the wealthiest ten percent of society continue to live as they do, the world’s entire carbon budget will be blown by 2033, even if all other emissions drop to zero.

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
CO2 emissions feature photo

A new report published today by international charity Oxfam lays bare the massive disparities in carbon dioxide emissions between the world’s wealthy elite and the rest of society. Titled “Confronting Carbon Inequality,” the study found that over the previous 25 years, the globe’s richest one percent are responsible for 15 percent of all carbon

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According to Oxfam, Rich Countries Have Already Hoarded Most Future COVID Vaccines

Oxfam studied five leading COVID-19 vaccine candidates currently under clinical trial and found that rich countries had pumped billions of dollars into securing 51 percent of the promised doses.

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
COVID-19 Feature photo

The world’s wealthiest nations have already quietly bought up more than half of the potential future supply of the most promising COVID-19 vaccine doses, leaving little for anyone else. International charity Oxfam studied five leading COVID-19 vaccine candidates, currently under clinical trials, and found that rich countries had pumped billions of

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Oxfam: Saudis Carry Out Equivalent of One Attack Every Ten Days on Yemen’s Medical and Water Facilities

According to a new Oxfam analysis, the Saudi Colation has carried out the equivalent of “one air raid every ten days during the conflict affecting hospitals, clinics, ambulances, water drills, tanks and trucks,” since it began the war in 2015.

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
al-Thawra Hospital Yemen

Yemen is already living through what the United Nations calls “the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.” Yet despite twin epidemics of cholera and COVID-19 raging through the embattled nation, the Saudi-led coalition continues to target medical and water infrastructure, having done so over 200 times since the conflict began, a new report from Oxfam

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Aid Groups Call for Worldwide COVID-19 Bailout Amid Fears of Mass Hunger

“As many as 12,000 people could die every day from COVID-linked hunger, which is more than those dying daily from the virus itself,” warns Oxfam America President Abby Maxman.

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
COVID-19 Hunger Feature photo

The consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic have already devastated the world. Over 14 million people have tested positive for the virus, and nearly 600,000 have died since it was first identified in December. And cases continue to rise: yesterday saw 248,998 people test positive – an all-time high. World Health Organization Director-General Tedros

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Oxfam: Starving Yemeni Families Selling Daughters as Young as Three into Marriage

The fact that girls as young as three have been sold is shocking and a testament to the severity of the humanitarian crisis, particularly the country’s burgeoning famine, that many Yemenis face.

Whitney Webb
By Whitney Webb
Yemen | Child Marriage

LONDON -- As the entirely man-made crisis in Yemen continues to worsen, the U.K.-based charity Oxfam has stated that some desperate Yemeni families are selling their daughters, some as young as three years old, as child brides in hopes that their dowries can buy them much needed food and shelter. Oxfam made the shocking and disturbing claims in

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Is Trump Pushing Neutral Groups Like the ACLU Towards an Anti War Stance?

Large, well-funded organizations are beginning to edge toward opposition to at least certain wars, organizations that didn’t oppose any wars when George Bush II was president, much less when Obama was.

David Swanson
By David Swanson
Peace activist Marilyn Cornell, of Strongsville, Ohio, holds an American flag with a peace sign on it during an anti-war protest in Washington, on March 20, 2010, where thousands of protesters marched through Washington to protest the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan on the seventh anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

For those of us who fully expected most U.S. peace activists to vanish once Barack Obama became president but expected them to come back once Donald Trump ascended the throne, the failure of our second expectation has been hard, crushingly hard. But there are a few silver linings. First, there is now a multi-issue campaign that, unlike the

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