A field coordinator for humanitarian group Oxfam warned on Tuesday that supplies of clean water — the “first line of defense” against the Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) — are “simply not available.”
A report published on Monday by Oxfam claimed that “carbon inequality” – meaning “the emissions of the world’s super-rich 1%” – is “causing economic losses of trillions of dollars, contributing to huge crop losses, and leading to millions of excess deaths.”
A court will rule Friday on whether to force the Dutch government to stop supplying parts for F-35 fighter jets being used by Israel.
The globalist British charity Oxfam International has issued an apology for caricaturizing Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling as a “TERF” — or “trans-exclusionary radical feminist” — in its recent gay pride video, saying it was “sorry” for the “offense it caused.”
Oxfam deleted a LGBT Pride cartoon following accusation that a villainous character bore a striking resemblance to author J.K. Rowling.
Oxfam, a British-origin confederation of charities once geared chiefly towards fighting famine, is pushing windfall taxes on food companies at Davos.
The direct imposition of permanent annual taxes on the earnings of the world’s richest individuals could redistribute wealth and lift millions out of poverty, a report presented to the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Wednesday outlined.
As the world was buffeted by a coronavirus tsunami leaving forced lockdowns, supply-chain problems, economic upheaval, and poverty in its wake, global financial elites “have had a terrific pandemic” according to a report released Monday.
Maine Democrat Secretary of State Shenna Bellows’ communications director allegedly belonged to a private communications channel comprised of leftist organizations that attempted to smear West Virginia Republican Secretary of State Mac Warner over his opposition to federalized elections.
The British government has suspended Oxfam from bidding for taxpayers’ cash after the charity confirmed it had suspended two staff amidst an investigation into corruption and sexual misconduct in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
British international charity Oxfam has confirmed it has suspended two staff amidst an independent investigation into intimidation, sexual misconduct, and abuse of power in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
A report co-produced by The New Humanitarian, a non-profit human rights news agency, and Reuters on Tuesday said that 51 women in the Democratic Republic of Congo have accused World Health Organization (WHO) personnel, along with representatives of several aid agencies and non-governmental organizations, of using the Ebola crisis as an opportunity to sexually exploit them.
International poverty charity Oxfam warned in a report this week that the number of deaths caused by famine as a result of worldwide lockdown measures could exceed those caused by the Chinese coronavirus, which triggered the lockdowns.
Oxfam has been heavily criticised by the Charity Commission for the manner in which it dealt with claims of serious sexual misconduct of its staff in Haiti and its charity shops.
Sexual abuse of the most vulnerable and poverty-stricken is “endemic” across the international aid sector, according to a new government report, which accused NGOs of “complacency verging on complicity” regarding the problem.
The Chief Executive of Oxfam has announced he will stand down, three months after the charity was embroiled in a sex and prostitution scandal.
One in seven aid charities taking taxpayers’ money to spend abroad have now reported conduct breaches, with dozens of new claims of abuse, including paedophilia, the International Aid Secretary has said.
A BBC charity, which takes tens of millions from the taxpayer, fired six members of staff for sexual misconduct without informing the government.
Aid workers sent to conflict zones representing the United Nations and international charities routinely sexually assault the very people they are sent to help, a former aid worker has claimed.
LONDON (AP) – Oxfam’s leadership apologised Tuesday for downplaying the significance of a sexual misconduct scandal in Haiti and sought to stem the tide of cancelled donations.
Brendan Cox, widower of the late Labour MP Jo Cox, has stepped down from the charities he founded in the wake of his wife’s death following sexual harassment allegations.
LONDON (AP) – Oxfam’s report on sexual misconduct allegations in Haiti shows that three staff members intimidated and physically threatened witnesses as the charity investigated the original claims.
The British government has cut off funding to Oxfam following the aid worker sex scandal, until the charity can show it has made significant reforms. International Development secretary Penny Mordaunt said Oxfam is barred from receiving public money until the
Theresa May’s government is sticking by its massive foreign aid commitments despite funding crises in the Armed Forces, healthcare, and social care, and tens of thousands signing petitions to scrap it.
International humanitarian group Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), better known in the United States by the English version of its name “Doctors Without Borders,” issued a statement on Wednesday announcing that it received 146 complaints about sexual harassment and abuse against its staff in 2017. The group took action on 24 cases and fired 19 of its employees.
The children’s charity SOS Children’s Villages has admitted that it received 37 reports of the sexual abuse of children involving charity personnel in 2016.
The scandal surrounding sexual exploitation by aid workers in Haiti is continuing to deepen, with the British government set to consult the National Crime Agency (NCA).
LONDON (AP) — The British government is reviewing its relationship with Oxfam amid a deepening sexual misconduct scandal involving some of the charity’s employees working in Haiti after its devastating 2010 earthquake. The U.K.’s Department for International Development sharply criticized
A charity invited four refugees to stay at President Trump’s childhood home in Queens, New York, for the weekend in a publicity stunt to pressure Trump and other world leaders to admit more refugees.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared a victory over “brutality and terrorism” in Mosul on Monday after his forces ended the Islamic State terror group’s rule over the country’s second city.
NGO Oxfam has accused police in the Balkans and Eastern Europe of abusing migrants saying migrants were beaten by officers and left in the cold.
As Russia prepares to resume, and probably intensify, its war effort in Syria, human rights groups have increasingly condemned the nation for exacerbating the violence while not taking in Syrian refugees.
The bad blood between the Clinton Foundation and Oxfam began, apparently, after Oxfam International released a report that was strongly critical of the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission (IHRC), which was co-chaired by Bill Clinton.
The United Nations and Oxfam are offering a prize to young writers who can come up with the best story raising “awareness of the harmful impacts of climate change on communities”. (H/T Climate Depot) Here’s my entry: Once upon a
One of the world’s largest, allegedly corrupt charities has joined forces with one of the world’s largest, allegedly corrupt governments to guilt trip the Western world into welcoming 60 million migrants to their shores. On Sunday, the European Commission and Oxfam launched
