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Briefing paper
The Journey to Sustainable Food
In February 2013, Oxfam launched the Behind the Brands campaign to challenge the ‘Big 10’ food and beverage companies on their social and environmental policies and practices, and to amplify the voices of key stakeholders such as farmers, communities, consumers and investors calling on them to take action.
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EU “hotspots” spread fear and doubt
On April 18, 2015 a shipwreck in the Central Mediterranean caused the deaths of an estimated 800 people seeking to reach Italy. The EU responded to the tragedy by calling the first of many emergency summits and speeding up the issuance of the EU Agenda on Migration. A package of measures, meant to increase Europe’s border security an decrease the number of people seeking safety in the EU, included a “hotspot” approach intended to expedite processing of asylum claims and swifter returns of those rejected.
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Briefing paper
What Will Become of Us: Voices from around the world on drought and El Nino
About 60 million people across Southern Africa and the Horn, Central America, and the Pacific face worsening hunger and poverty due to droughts and crop failures in 2014/5 that have been exacerbated by the El Niño weather system in 2015/6. This number is likely to rise.
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Broken at the top
How America’s dysfunctional tax system costs billions in corporate tax dodging
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Briefing paper
The IFC and Tax Havens
The need to support more responsible corporate tax behavior
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Briefing paper
Resettling 10 Percent of Syrian Refugees
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is organizing a ‘Highlevel meeting on global responsibility sharing through pathways for admission of Syrian refugees,’ which will be opened by the United Nations Secretary-General in Geneva on March 30, 2016. Oxfam is calling for the states attending the Geneva conference to collectively commit to offer a safe haven through resettlement or other forms of humanitarian admission to at least 10 percent of the refugee population – the equivalent of 481,220 people – by the end of 2016.
