basic social services

2010 saw Europe missing their poverty targets and today Heads of State compounded this by failing to put new commitments on the table to achieve their 2015 aid targets and keep their promises to the world’s poorest people.

40 years ago, rich countries promised to give 0.7% of their national income as development aid.read more

Oxfam International works with the W8 group of ambassadors to bring voices from the south to a global audience.

On top of their national work the read more

The new Afghan government must urgently devote greater resources to building up to 6,000 new schools, training upwards of 5,000 new midwives and professionalizing the police force, aread more

New York - Millions were thrown a lifeline at special session at the United Nations today, when world leaders unveiled a plan for free health care in poor countries.read more

Finance ministers and central bankers from the G20 nations met in London on Saturday, as a preparatory session for the G20 summit in Pittsburgh later this month, and to lay the grounread more

West Africa has the lowest literacy rates in the world. This report calculates the scale of the literacy crisis in West Africa, and explores what should be done about it.read more

At the beginning of the month I was privileged to be part of an extraordinary and inspiring journey. I traveled to Berlin to be part of the launch of the W8 in Germany, with Oxfam International. The W8 is composed of eight outstanding women from all over the world who have dedicated their lives to campaigning for health and education, as well as other social development issues.

International agency Oxfam fears that companies producing affordable generic medicines for poor people could be subject to criminal prosecutions and have their medicines seized on orread more

We live in a world where every minute of every day somewhere in the developing world a woman dies needlessly in pregnancy and childbirth, and where millions of children do not go toread more