Oxfam Articles

On Tuesday, the Public Bill Committee for the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill will discuss the government’s planned reforms of civil law. In response to lobbying by insurers and those that have fallen foul of the law, the government plans to...

In her recent column Mary Creagh MP put forward a strong case for Labour supporting a crackdown on speculation on food markets. International cooperation to create regulation and transparency in the trade of food commodities is vital as actions of speculators become...

Food is fast becoming one of the defining political issues of this century. Last week the G20 held its first ever agricultural ministers’ summit in Paris to discuss rising food prices and the impacts of commodity trading.  Similarly, the OECD and UN Food and...