Thousands of New Zealanders around the country took on the challenge to go a whole day without turning on their taps – at home and at work – in a brand new project hoping to provide easy access to clean water for our Pacific neighbours.
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Federal courts temporarily block Trump’s discriminatory travel ban
In a critical move to protect the world’s most vulnerable people, federal judges in Hawaii and Maryland issued a nationwide restraining order on President Trump’s newest travel ban. The ban, set to go into effect today, would have blocked travel from six Muslim-majority countries and suspended the US refugee resettlement program for 120 days.
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Yemen food crisis: an additional 3 million people now dangerously hungry
In response to the UN’s announcement that levels of hunger have increased by 20 percent in Yemen since June 2016, Oxfam demands a massive humanitarian response that must be facilitated by both the parties to the country’s brutal war and their international backers.
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LuxLeaks whistleblowers verdict
Whistleblowers who expose tax dodging should be praised – not punished. Antoine Deltour and Raphaël Halet acted in the public interest – exposing corporate tax cheats who are depriving countries across Europe and the globe out of millions of Euros tax revenues. This is money which is desperately needed to pay for doctors, teachers and care workers.”
No escape for Syrians seeking safety six years after first protests
Six years since the demonstrations that triggered the descent into a brutal civil war, millions of Syrians are bearing the brunt of increasingly restrictive policies around the world and inside Syria to stop them reaching safety, Oxfam warned today.
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An economy that works for women
Women’s economic empowerment could reduce poverty for everyone.
In order to achieve it, we need to first fix the current broken economic model which is undermining gender equality and causing extreme economic inequality.
The neoliberal model has made it harder for women to have better quality and better paid jobs, address inequality in unpaid care work, and women’s influence and decision making power is constrained.
To achieve women’s economic empowerment, we need a human economy that works for women and men alike, and for everyone, not just the richest 1%.
