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The UK-based charity Oxfam says in a new report that the income of the world's richest one percent has increased by 60 percent in the last 20 years.The report says the world's 100 richest earned enough in 2012 to end extreme poverty four times over.
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Sydney -
Mainstream media is to democracy what sexual diseases are to public health- Selectively ignorant excuses for morality, however ridiculous and misleading. MSM is a medium which wouldn’t understand a message if it got pregnant with one.
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As Suzanne Collin's movie, "The Hunger Games," makes its $90 billion movie debut, it will be used to bring together a global food justice movement of young fans through the International Oxfam and Harry Potter Alliance’s Imagine Better Project.
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As much as 227 million hectares – an area the size of Western Europe – have been sold, leased or licensed in largescale land deals in the developing world since 2001, mostly by international investors.
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Islamabad -
As Pakistan continues its recovery from the 2010 floods that devastated the country, the state remains unprepared as the latest monsoon season looms.
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I'm a connoisseur of the finer things in life. Fine juice beverages in the morning, perhaps with something semi-edible. A bed to sleep in sans cockroaches or bed bugs. Yet I find myself all too often counting my pennies to ensure even those luxuries.
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The British aid agency Oxfam has slammed the international response to the flood crisis in Pakistan and has described it as "feeble and woefully inadequate". Britain needs to donate more, according to the aid agency.
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Roger Federer's defeat to Tomas Berdych at Wimbledon this week not only lost the defending champion his title, but also cost Oxfam a cool £100,000 in potential donations.
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Toronto -
Oxfam and other organizations are calling for G8 and G20 to be dismantled. Oxfam was also asking for investments in clean energy, and for the wealthier nations to remember their commitments to reduce global poverty.
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The Co-operative Group, which owns two of the largest UK supermarket chains – Co-operative and Somerfield – is relaunching its range of Fairtrade chocolate.
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