Oxfam News
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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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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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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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A book given to an Oxfam charity shop in the UK has gone on to make £37,000 at an auction. The book was entitled "A Trip To The Highlands Of Viti Levu" and was among a pile of books that were donated to the Devon store.
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A gruesome report by Oxfam International shows that in 2009 over 5000 women were raped in the DRC's South Kivu province, situated of the northeastern part of the country. That comes down to 14 rapes a day.
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Oxfam is warning of a humanitarian catastrophe in the Sahel region of West Africa.
Oxfam is trying out a scheme called Shelflife that lets customers find out the stories behind its second-hand goods.
Marks and Spencer has joined forces with Oxfam and Joanna Lumley to launch Shwopping - a clothes shopping and swapping scheme.
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