Global Summit agrees to open the books on oil, mining revenues
Oxfam welcomed commitments by France, Germany and the UK to make it mandatory for oil, gas and mining companies to publish data regarding their payments in resource-rich countries.Transparency...
View ArticleThe G8’s YesNoVille Summit
As the Deauville Summit comes to a close, international aid agency Oxfam warned that the G8 is losing credibility by showing no real decision-making in its Communiqué.As the Deauville Summit comes to a...
View ArticleOxfam announces external investigation into financial irregularities in its...
Oxfam's regular monitoring processes have found financial irregularities in an Oxfam program for flood relief in Sindh, Pakistan. Oxfam takes transparency and accountability extremely seriously. As a...
View ArticleOxfam has called for the public release of the transcript of Christine...
Oxfam’s Sarah Wynn-Williams said: “This farcical appointment process has damaged the IMF’s credibility.read more
View ArticleOxfam announces internal investigation into misconduct by staff in Haiti
Oxfam has launched an internal investigation into allegations of misconduct against a small number of Oxfam Great Britain staff in Haiti. Staff members have been suspended pending the outcome of the...
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INGO Accountability Charter
In our commitment to transparency, we joined the first Global Accountability Charter for the non-profit sector in June 2006, against which we report publicly.In a sign of our commitment to...
View ArticleInternal investigation confirms staff misconduct in Haiti
An internal investigation carried out by aid agency, Oxfam Great Britain, has confirmed cases of misconduct by a small number of its staff members working in Haiti.Monday 5th September 2011 (Port au...
View ArticleNegotiations on global aid down to the wire
Government negotiators meeting in Busan, South Korea are working through the night in a last ditch effort to reach a deal on the future of global aidPoor countries try to hold the lineGovernment...
View ArticleAppointing new World Bank head – campaigners demand fair selection process
Reacting to the announcement that World Bank President Robert Zoellick will step down at the end of his term on June 30th, a global coalition of campaigners has called for an open and merit-based...
View ArticleCandidates for World Bank president must debate each other publicly
With interviews to select a new president of the World Bank starting soon [April 9-11], a global coalition of campaigners have called on the World Bank's executive directors to ensure that read more
View ArticleEU clampdown on tax avoidance to release hidden billions to fight poverty
International development agency Oxfam and the European Network on Debt and Development (Eurodad) welcome the European Commiread more
View ArticleEU Finance Ministers fail to take bold stance on tax dodging
Meeting today in Brussels, European Finance Ministers failed to take bold action against tax evasion and avoidance, leaving a great deal still to be achieved at next week’s EU leaders’ summread more
View ArticleOxfam reaction to EU leaders’ timid ambition to clamp down on tax dodging
European leaders failed today to meet the expectations they had raised of cracking down on tax dodging at a summit in Brussels. In reaction, Catherine Olier, Oxfam’s EU Policy Adviser, said: read more
View ArticleOxfam’s to-do list for President Obama's Africa trip
Oxfam is urging President Obama and African leaders to make bold commitments to help transform African institutions into models of transparency and accountability.Oxfam is urging President Obama and...
View ArticleBlind Budgets
Budget transparency and public spending for small-scale producers Author: Antonio Hill, Regional Campaigns and Advocacy Adviser, Latin America and Caribbean In Latin America and the Caribbean,...
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Areva in Niger: who is benefiting from the uranium?
In a briefing note on mining agreements between AREVA and Niger, Oxfam and ROTAB, both members of the "Publish What You Pay" coalition, denounced the secrecy and pressure surrounding the...
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Progress on development, reconciliation, and justice too slow in Mali as...
Mali is in danger of frittering away the opportunity to tackle corruption and stamp out the abuse of power by officials as democracy returns to the country, two years on from the 2012 coup.(BAMAKO,...
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Reforming international tax system must be priority of G20
The G20 must take necessary steps to reform the international taxation system to stop wealthy tax dodgers, beginning at its Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meeting this weekend (22-23 Feb)...
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