Government Spending Watch, a site that collates MDG spending, launches today. Guppi Bola and Rachel Bladon explain how this powerful tool will be critical in holding governments to account....
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Tax havens are, by nature, shady. And that's not just the swaying palm trees. But intrepid activists across the world have put together short videos exposing the truth about these financial foxholes, and we're showcasing our favourites all week.
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With your help, Oxfam has been campaigning since September on land grabs, as part of our GROW campaign for food justice. We wanted the World Bank to take some urgently needed action to help end land grabs in many developing countries, which help keep one in eight people hungry.
In the last few weeks we've made some great progress. This simply wouldn't have happened without your support. Here's what you've helped to change:
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Less than two months ago, Oxfam called on the three largest chocolate companies to do more for the women who grow the cocoa used in Oreos, M&Ms and Crunch bars, to name just a few. But what happened next? Irit Tamar explains.
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50,000 Oxfam supporters are watching to see whether the World Bank will deliver on land grabs commitments
Meet Patricia. She's a mother of six from a small town called Casiguran in the Philippines. Until recently, she and her husband lived next to the sea, where they catch fish to make their living. But two years ago, Patricia and her family were forced to leave their home by a so-called 'development' project. They were not...
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At the beginning of its Land and Poverty Conference this week, the World Bank Group put out a statement on land that follows many months - and in some cases years - of campaigning and lobby by organisations all over the world for the Bank to take land-grabbing more
seriously.
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