Congratulations! After ten very long years of campaigning, passion and unbelievable determination from Oxfam supporters in the UK, yesterday the world voted overwhelmingly for an Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) to regulate the global arms trade for the first time. I sat at the back of the UN General Assembly Hall, watching the electronic voting board start to light up and, seconds later, the result flashed up for everyone to see: 154 'yes' votes...
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Meet IF. It might be one little word, but we're hoping it's going to make 2013 the beginning of the end of the global hunger crisis.
Right now, 1 in every 8 people live without enough to eat. More than 2 million children die every year from malnutrition and millions more face a life of stunting, pain and lost potential. Yet, this is completely preventable - our planet provides enough food for every single person....
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So Obama is back for another four years. Here's what the world had to say about his re-election, and the effects on some of the countries Oxfam works in:
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It's been a fantastic first week of land campaigning with stunts, action and a social sonic boom.
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