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'People Are Not Starving, They Are Being Starved': 250+ Groups Demand Rich Nations Provide Urgent Food Assistance

A Yemeni malnourished child lies on a bed where he receives treatment at the malnutrition treating department in Al-Sabeen hospital on January 26, 2021 in Sana'a, Yemen.

Over 25 Years, World's Wealthiest 5% Behind Over One-Third of Global Emissions Growth: Study

Brett Wilkins, staff writer

A passenger enjoys her choice of Krug or Dom Perignon champagne while relaxing in the first class cabin on a Singapore Airlines Airbus A380 flight. (Photo: s.yume/Flickr/cc)

"We have got to cut over-consumption and the best place to start is over-consumption among the polluting elites who contribute by far more than their share of carbon emissions."

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'We Need to Be on a War Footing': Head of WHO Calls for Vaccine Patent Waivers to Halt Pandemic

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends a combined news conference following a two-day international conference on Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine research and a meeting to decide whether Ebola in DR Congo still constitutes health emergency of international concern on January 12, 2020 in Geneva.

"Dr. Tedros is right," said Oxfam International. "It's time to end vaccine...

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Analysis Shows US Could Help Vaccinate the World for $25 Billion, But Biden Pledged Just $2 Billion at G7 Meeting

Kenny Stancil, staff writer

G7 head of states are seen on-screen during a virtual summit on February 19, 2021. (Photo: Olivier Hoslet/AFP via Getty Images)

"The world's going to have to get vaccinated either way," said Peter Maybarduk...

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Yemeni people affected by war receive food aid from a humanitarian organization on February 11, 2020 in Sana'a, Yemen. (Photo by Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images)

Citing Humanitarian Impact, Biden Reverses 'Dangerous' Designation of Houthis as Terrorist Group

Margaret Keenan, 90, who was the first patient in the United Kingdom to receive the Pfizer-BioNtech Covid-19 vaccine, talks with healthcare assistant Lorraine Hill while preparing to leave University Hospital Coventry on December 9, 2020, a day after receiving the vaccine. (Photo by Jonny Weeks/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)

As FDA Gives Pfizer and BioNTech the Green Light, Global Calls Continue to Mount for a #PeoplesVaccine

Julio Erte joined other workers at an event in Miami Beach organized as part of a national "Strike for Black Lives" to protest systemic racism and economic inequality that they feel has worsened during the coronavirus pandemic on July 20, 2020. (Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

'Catastrophic Failure to Tackle Inequality' Left World Unprepared for Pandemic: Global Index

A man wears a face mask as a preventive measure against the spread of the Covid-19 in Manila, Philippines on March 18, 2020. (Photo: Maria Tan via Getty Images)

Covid-19 Pandemic Could Push Up to 150 Million Into 'Extreme Poverty' by 2021, World Bank Warns

Newly-published research from Oxfam International reveals that the wealthiest 1% of the world's population is responsible for more than twice as much CO2 pollution as the bottom half of humanity. (Photo:isciencetimes.com)

Highlighting 'Extreme Carbon Inequality,' Oxfam Study Shows World's Richest 1% Emit More Than Twice as Much CO2 as Poorest 50%

Bottles of a trial Covid-19 vaccine on a table in a lab in Brussels on June 18, 2020.

Rich Nations Hoarding Potential Covid-19 Vaccine Doses, Warns Oxfam

Oxfam America Calls for Tax on 'Pandemic Profiteers' to Fund Covid-19 Recovery and the Common Good

Abigail Disney, who inherited much of her wealth from her family's entertainment fortune, is among 83 millionaires who signed on to a new letter urging governments to impose higher taxes on the rich. (

To Fund Covid-19 Recovery and Better Future, 83 Super Rich People Say Tax Us More 'Immediately. Substantially. Permanently.'

A mother holds her malnourished child to be weighed as he receives treatment at Al-Jumhori hospital in Saada province, March 19, 2020.

'The Last Straw': As Pandemic Rages, Oxfam Warns 12,000 Could Die Per Day From Hunger

A general view shows ongoing construction work in the Israeli settlement of Givat Zeev, near the Palestinian city of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, on June 24, 2020. (Photo: Ahmad Gharabli/AFP via Getty Images)

With Demand 'Echoing Across the World,' UN Chief Calls on Israel to Abandon Illegal Annexation Plan

An activist from Fridays for Future in a face mask with the inscription "Fight every crisis" takes part in the alternative climate strike on the Reichstag meadow in Berlin.

With COP 26 Pushed to Late 2021 Due to Pandemic, World Leaders Urged Not to Delay Climate Action

A woman named Mary at the Mangaten IDP Camp in South Sudan holds up her hands, which bear the message, "Peace will give us our home back."

Oxfam Report Details 'Catastrophic Failure' of Efforts to Coordinate Global Ceasefire During Covid-19 Crisis

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G20 Fails on Promise to Rebalance the Global Economy and Provide Major Relief: Oxfam Reaction

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Pandemic Profiteers Exposed

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Climate Fuelled Disasters Number One Driver of Internal Displacement Globally Forcing More Than 20 Million People a Year from Their Homes

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World Bank Must Stop Push to Expand Private Education

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One Month After South Sudan Famine Announced, It’s a Race Against the Rains to Save Lives

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World's Worst Corporate Tax Havens Exposed

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Chema Vera

Never in Our Lifetimes Has There Been a Call for Compassion Like This

Winnie Byanyima

The Climate Movement Charges On, Even Without the US

Duncan Green

8 Men Now Own the Same as the Poorest Half of the World

Winnie Byanyima

UN Refugees and Migrants Summit: All Talk, No Action

Rachel Sider

Iraq Must Not Be Forgotten: The Humanitarian Crisis Worsens

Winnie Byanyima

Jo Cox's Message to the World: We Have #MoreInCommon

Derrick O'Keefe

Extreme Inequality Fueling Climate Change: Oxfam Study