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Charities Avaaz, WeMove and Oxfam were joined by several young activists to highlight wealth inequality outside the European Parliament in Brussels. Protesters used an inflatable jet in order to draw attention to the lavish lifestyles of the super-rich. According to a report from Oxfam published in April this year, EU governments are losing out on €286.5 billion in revenue annually due to their failure to adequately tax the rich. The amount equals out to roughly €33 million per hour. Julian Desiderio, a policy advisor on tax and inequality at Oxfam Belgium told Euronews, "If we are able to hav...
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Un jet gonflable pour symboliser le style de vie somptueux des ultra-riches et souligner l'inégalité en Europe. Trois ONG se sont rassemblées jeudi à Bruxelles devant le Parlement européen pour dénoncer cette situation. Selon Oxfam, les gouvernements perdent chaque année 286,5 milliards d'euros, l'équivalent de 33 millions d'euros par heure, en raison de leur incapacité à taxer équitablement les plus riches. C'est pourquoi le fossé s'accentue chaque année entre la minorité la plus aisée et l'ensemble des citoyens européens, selon ces organisations. "L'inflation, les crises du coût de la vie, l...
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London (AFP) - The world's biggest chocolate makers are failing on promises to improve pay for farmers in major cocoa producer Ghana despite strong profits, charity Oxfam said in a report on Thursday. It said earnings for US companies Hershey, Mars and Mondelez in addition to Italy's Ferrero and Swiss peers Lindt & Spruengli and Nestle had increased since the onset of the pandemic in 2020, a period when inflation has soared. At the same time, an Oxfam survey of more than 400 cocoa farmers in Ghana -- the second-largest global producer of the commodity -- found their net incomes had fallen by a...
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By Sana Fazili The top 1% of India owned over 40% of total wealth from 2012 to 2021, while the bottom 50% of the population has around 3% of total wealth, Oxfam's annual equality report released on Monday said. The report used sources like Forbes and Credit Suisse to look at the inequality of wealth in the country. It also looked at government sources like NSS, Union Budget documents and Parliamentary questions to corroborate its arguments. Oxfam India’s latest report was released on the opening day of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The number of billionaires in India increase...
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By Sana Fazili Access to digital technology in India is largely dependent on a person's gender, caste, religion and economic status, Oxfam's 'India Inequality Report 2022: Digital Divide' has found with its reach limited to mostly male, urban, upper caste and upper-class households and individuals. India has a 30% gender gap between men and women when it comes to owning mobile phones. Meanwhile, 94% of the respondents with a phone were salaried permanent workers while "less than 50% of unemployed are with a phone". For the report, Oxfam analysed data from the Centre for Monitoring Indian Econo...
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By Sana Fazili In India, gender discrimination accounts for over 98% of the employment and earning gap between men and women, Oxfam's India Discrimination Report published last week has revealed. Be it salaried jobs or self-employment, gender discrimination affects women across the board. Gender biases not only result in lesser pay but also result in women leaving the workforce. Discrimination based on gender, according to the report, is all pervasive in women's experience at work in India. Also Read:Chandigarh Hostel Video Leak: 3 Arrested, No Classes Till Saturday Amitabh Behar, CEO of Oxfam...
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Prince Harry has praised the people of Nepal for their "unwavering" spirit amid the "devastating and destructive" coronavirus pandemic.The 36-year-old royal spoke in a video released by Trailwalker UK to mark the start of their 100km charitable relay, which has been set up to help support Oxfam and The Gurkha Welfare Trust in their mission to raise money to help the people of Nepal who are struggling amid the global health crisis.Harry compared the pandemic to the earthquake which hit Nepal in 2015 and praised the Nepalese people for their "sense of compassion" in both crises.
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