#Oxfam report

[creativemedianews]

Oxfam: Global conflicts cause 21,000 hunger-related deaths daily

Oxfam: Global conflicts cause 21,000 hunger-related deaths daily #climatechangeimpacts #conflict-inducedhunger

[bahoreal]

Oxfam has a petition for the uk to stop arming Israel

[troythecatfish]

An Oxfam report, entitled Water War Crimes, finds that Israel's deliberate reduction of water access in Gaza has put civilians at under a third of the recommended minimum

Israel's cutting of the external water supply, systematic destruction of water facilities and deliberate aid obstruction have reduced the amount of water avallable in Gaza by 94%, to 4.74 liters a day per person, says Oxtam. This information has to be coupled with the fact that 97% of Gaza's water was already considered undrinkable prior to the beginning of the war in October, meaning that much of the water that people do have access to is untreated and is causing a range of health problems, including a variety of diseases.

Source: Mintpress

[dallassa]

Oxfam Report Reveals Billionaires’ Staggering Rise Amid Growing Poverty

The annual inequality report released by Oxfam on January 14 has unveiled a startling surge in the net worth of the world’s top five billionaires. Since the year 2020, the total value of their assets has skyrocketed by 114%, reaching an astronomical $869 billion after accounting for inflation. In a bold prediction, Oxfam anticipates that the world may witness its first trillionaire within the next decade if this current trajectory persists.

This remarkable escalation in wealth stands in stark contrast to the struggles faced by nearly 5 billion people globally, who are experiencing increased poverty due to challenges such as inflation, war, and climate crises. The report paints a bleak picture, estimating that it could take close to 230 years to eradicate hunger and reduce poverty on a global scale.

Oxfam’s report draws on data compiled by Forbes and coincides with the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where world leaders and a significant number of the wealthiest individuals on the planet convene. More

Link Post: https://dallassa.com/global-wealth-inequality-soars/

[sayruq]

Three days ago, the Israeli military dropped flyers ordering displaced people and residents of Rafah to leave. In the orders where people were told to move out of Rafah, the military said it was “about to operate with force against the terror organisations in the area”. A UN estimate says there are 1.2 million people sheltering in dire conditions in Rafah, Gaza's southern city. The "full-blown famine" that has taken hold in the north of Gaza has spread to the south, Cindy McCain, the head of the World Food Programme, confirmed over the weekend. There are roughly 200 Palestinians that are being forcibly displaced from Rafah every hour, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (Unrwa) said on Wednesday. During an online press briefing, medical doctors and humanitarian aid workers reporting from the ground in Gaza spoke about the impossible feat of moving people from Rafah, as people are ridden by famine plus a collapsed transportation and healthcare system. "There are children and elderly that are so starved that they can barely walk. These people cannot just relocate to another area, to so-called 'safe zones'. It is not possible," Alexandra Saieh, head of humanitarian policy from Save the Children, said. Several aid workers have expressed that there is no "safe" area in the Gaza Strip for people to relocate to. "The concept of safe zones is a lie," Helena Marchal, from Medecins du Monde, said. Aid workers also reiterated the difficulty of getting aid both into Gaza and then distributing it. Both the Rafah and the Kerem Shalom crossings, through which most aid reached the besieged Strip, have closed since Sunday evening. Roads across Gaza are largely destroyed or blocked by people sheltering, contributing to the difficulty of movement of both goods and people. Only a very limited number of routes, especially between the north and south, are available for humanitarian use, Jeremy Konyndyk, from Refugees International, explained. Another issue is overcrowding. "In Deir al-Balah and the Mawasi area on the outskirts of the Rafah and Khan Younis governorates, there is barely any space. There are tents everywhere, on the beach, on the sidewalks, the streets, the graveyards, the courtyards of the hospitals, in the courtyards of the schools," Ghada Alhaddad, from Oxfam International, said. Saieh explained that it took her team six weeks and four failed attempts to move a couple of hundred food parcels from Rafah to the north of Gaza. "One litre of fuel cost $40 yesterday," according to Ranchal. Fuel enters through the Rafah crossing. If the fuel is cut off, the aid operation collapses," Konyndyk said.

[liesmyth]

The richest 1% of humanity is responsible for more carbon emissions than the poorest 66%, with dire consequences for vulnerable communities and global efforts to tackle the climate emergency, a report says.

The most comprehensive study of global climate inequality ever undertaken shows that this elite group, made up of 77 million people including billionaires, millionaires and those paid more than US$140,000 (£112,500) a year, accounted for 16% of all CO2 emissions in 2019 – enough to cause more than a million excess deaths due to heat, according to the report.

Twelve billionaires’ climate emissions outpollute 2.1m homes, analysis finds

[soon-palestine]

Israel continues to use the denial of water as a weapon of genocide against Palestinians. This past weekend, the Israeli military destroyed a reservoir in the Tel Sultan neighborhood of Rafah—another blatant and wanton violation of international law.

In a report titled “Water War Crimes,” @Oxfam estimated this month that Israel has reduced Gaza’s water supply by 94% since the start of its genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians. This means Palestinians in Gaza are limited to 4.74 liters of water a day per person on average, “just under a third of the recommended minimum in emergencies and less than a single toilet flush.“

It’s time to escalate #BDS pressure to stop supplying Israel’s genocidal war machine—every government has the obligation to do so. Full #MilitaryEmbargo now!

[probablyasocialecologist]

As environmental, social and humanitarian crises escalate, the world can no longer afford two things: first, the costs of economic inequality; and second, the rich. Between 2020 and 2022, the world’s most affluent 1% of people captured nearly twice as much of the new global wealth created as did the other 99% of individuals put together, and in 2019 they emitted as much carbon dioxide as the poorest two-thirds of humanity. In the decade to 2022, the world’s billionaires more than doubled their wealth, to almost US$12 trillion. The evidence gathered by social epidemiologists, including us, shows that large differences in income are a powerful social stressor that is increasingly rendering societies dysfunctional. For example, bigger gaps between rich and poor are accompanied by higher rates of homicide and imprisonment. They also correspond to more infant mortality, obesity, drug abuse and COVID-19 deaths, as well as higher rates of teenage pregnancy and lower levels of child well-being, social mobility and public trust. The homicide rate in the United States — the most unequal Western democracy — is more than 11 times that in Norway. Imprisonment rates are ten times as high, and infant mortality and obesity rates twice as high.

[...]

Our work has shown that the amount spent on advertising as a proportion of gross domestic product is higher in countries with greater inequality. The well-publicized lifestyles of the rich promote standards and ways of living that others seek to emulate, triggering cascades of expenditure for holiday homes, swimming pools, travel, clothes and expensive cars. Oxfam reports that, on average, each of the richest 1% of people in the world produces 100 times the emissions of the average person in the poorest half of the world’s population. That is the scale of the injustice. As poorer countries raise their material standards, the rich will have to lower theirs.

[...]

The scientific evidence is stark that reducing inequality is a fundamental precondition for addressing the environmental, health and social crises the world is facing. It’s essential that policymakers act quickly to reverse decades of rising inequality and curb the highest incomes.

[txttletale]

Hi! Do you think you could link me to some resources about the problems/ evils of the EU? Would love to find some but it's hard to know what's reliable when I have no base knowledge in this area + you seem very well informed :)

sure. let's start with what the EU does to its own member states--in 2009, the EU bailed the greek government out of severe debt on the condition that they establish brutal austerity measures, cutting public spending and welfare. these measures served to immiserate and destroy the lives of thousands of greek people:

Greek mortality has worsened significantly since the beginning of the century. In 2000, the death rate per 100,000 people was 944.5. By 2016, it had risen to 1174.9, with most of the increase taking place from 2010 onwards.

[forbes]

Since the implementation of the austerity programme, Greece has reduced its ratio of health-care expenditure to GDP to one of the lowest within the EU, with 50% less public hospital funding in 2015 than in 2009. This reduction has left hospitals with a deficit in basic supplies, while consumers are challenged by transient drug shortages.

[the lancet]

The homeless population is thought to have grown by 25 per cent since 2009, now numbering 20,000 people.

[oxfam]

the most brutal treatment, however, the EU of course reserves for migrants from the global south. the EU sets strict migration quotas and uses its member states as weapons against desperate people fleeing across the mediterranean. boats are prevented from landing, migrants that do make it to land are repelled with brutal violence, and refugees are deported back to countries where their lives are in lethal danger. these policies have led to many, many deaths--and the refugees and migrants who do survive are treating fucking inhumanely.

After a perilous journey across the desert, Abdulaziz was locked up in Triq al-Sikka, a grim prison in Tripoli, Libya. Why? Because the EU pays Libyan militias millions of euros to detain anyone deemed a possible migrant to Europe [...] A leaked EU internal memorandum in 2020 acknowledged that capturing migrants was now “a profitable business model” [...] in Triq al-Sikka and other detention centres, “acts of murder, enslavement, torture, rape and other inhumane acts are committed against migrants”, observed a damning UN report.

[the guardian]

Volunteers have logged more than 27,000 deaths by drowning since 1993, often hundreds at a time when large ships capsize. These account for nearly 80% of all the entries.

[the guardian]

Refugees and asylum seekers were punched, slapped, beaten with truncheons, weapons, sticks or branches, by police or border guards who often removed their ID tags or badges, the committee said in its annual report. People on the move were subject to pushbacks, expulsion from European states, either by land or sea, without having asylum claims heard. Victims were also subject to “inhuman and degrading treatment”, such as having bullets fired close to their bodies while they lay on the ground, being pushed into rivers, sometimes with hands tied, or being forced to walk barefoot or even naked across a border.

[the guardian]

In September, Greece opened a refugee camp on the island of Samos that has been described as prison-like. The €38m (£32m) facility for 3,000 asylum seekers has military-grade fencing and CCTV to track people’s movements. Access is controlled by fingerprint, turnstiles and X-rays. A private security company and 50 uniformed officers monitor the camp. It is the first of five that Greece has planned; two more opened in November.

[the guardian]

i could go on. i could cite dozens more similarly brutal news stories about horrific mistreatment, or any of the dozens of people who have killed themselves in the custody of border police under horrific conditions. the EU is a murderous institution that does not care about the lives of refugees and migrants or about the lives of the citizens of any member state that is not pursuing a vicious enough neoliberal political program

[mindblowingscience]

Climate disasters are costing the Pacific eight times more than they did a decade ago The number of people impacted by climate disasters in the Pacific increased 700% on average in the last decade, compared to the previous decade, according to new analysis by Oxfam Australia released as COP29 climate negotiations begin today in Baku.

Continue Reading.

[violottie]

A new Oxfam report says that people in northern Gaza are receiving an average of 245 calories a day.

That’s the equivalent of three slices of bread or three eggs. Hundreds of thousands of people are still living in the area, facing famine. Israel has been repeatedly accused of using food as a weapon of war to starve the Palestinians into submission." from BreakThrough News, 11/Apr/2024:

[zvaigzdelasas]

In a report published Thursday (May 11) Oxfam 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 skyrocketed. The world’s four largest public chocolate corporations [Editor's Note: Hershey, Lindt, Mondelēz and Nestlé] together made nearly $15 billion in profits from their confectionary divisions alone since the pandemic broke. THis amount was up by an average 16 percent since 2020. The giants paid out on average more than their total net profits (113 percent) to shareholders between 2020 and 2022. 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 an average of 16 percent since the same period. For women, the average drop was 22 percent, it added.[...]

The charity claimed that up to 90 percent of Ghanaian cocoa farmers do not earn a living income, "meaning they cannot afford enough food or other basics such as clothing, housing and medical care. Adding that "many of the 800,000 farmers in the country survive on just $2 a day." The NGO also noted that while Ghana produces about 15% of the world's beans, it receives only about 1.5% of the sector's estimated $130 billion annual global earnings. We 'do everything we can to help'[...]

Oxfam's Behar added on Thursday that chocolate giants needed "to put their money where their mouth is". "They must rid themselves of their colonial legacy of extracting raw materials and keeping farmers in poverty while making astronomical profits for their rich shareholders," he added.

12 May 23

[alyfoxxxen]

Carbon pollution by billionaires exposed in new report

[magz]

March 12, 2024 Palestine Update Summary.

From "Let's Talk Palestine" (Instagram broadcast channel), quote.

Day 158

🇦🇪 UAE threatens to suspend the vital land bridge established in Dec to deliver goods to Israel amid Red Sea blockade, if Israel doesn’t permit aid into Gaza

🇺🇸 US intel report doubts Israel’s ability to dismantle Hamas + Netanyahu’s ability to retain power amid growing public skepticism. Highlighting Israel’s failure to neutralize Hamas’s underground infrastructure, saying Palestinian military resistance efforts could last years

🇩🇰 Oxfam, Amnesty & other NGOs to sue Denmark for its arms exports to Israel for possible violations of international law in Gaza

🔻 Hamas claims close distance ambush trapping 2 IOF units north Khan Yunis, leaving some wounded & dead

• UN WFP first successful delivery to north Gaza since Feb 20, supplying food for 25,000 – emphasizing need for daily aid convoys

• Israeli forces attack aid seekers in Gaza City, killing 11+ people; 400+ aid seekers killed since ‘flour massacre’ on Feb 29

• 72 Palestinians killed, 129 injured in Gaza in past 24 hours

[melhindips]

Day 361

🇺🇸 US changes public stance to support Israeli invasion of Lebanon. Likely endorsed early but kept quiet for PR reasons

🇱🇧 IOF bombs home in Daoudiya, killing 10+ people & injuring 5 others

🇱🇧 55 killed, 156 injured in Lebanon in 24 hours

🇵🇸 29 Palestinians killed in Gaza today

🇵🇸 13 people killed in IOF attacks on 2 homes in Nuseirat refugee camp (central)

🇱🇧 IOF bombs Ein al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in Sidon in south Lebanon, killing 5

🇱🇧 IOF bombs near Beirut hospital, unconfirmed casualties

🇵🇸 IOF strike on school kills 8 people in Tuffah neighborhood, Gaza City (north). 7 killed in a tent west of Khan Younis (south) & other 6 killed in the area. IOF attack kills 3 in Rafah (south)

🇵🇸 7 Israeli settlers killed incl. 1 soldier, 9 injured in occupied Yaffa by gunfire from 2 Palestinians from West Bank

🇸🇾 3 people killed, 9 injured by IOF attack on Damascus

🇱🇧 Fatah leader Munir al-Maqdah survives assassination attempt but son killed in IOF attack. Fatah context: https://bit.ly/3SZycwW

🇵🇸 Oxfam: Israel has killed more women & kids in Gaza in the past year than any equivalent period of any other conflict over the past 2 decades

🇵🇸 2 Palestinians shot & murdered by IOF in raid on Nablus (West Bank)

🔻 Hamas claims to kill & injure Israeli forces in al-Fakhari east of Khan Younis (south), unconfirmed casualties

🚀 Updates on Iran’s missiles will be reported tomorrow