The COVID-19 death toll has been four times higher in lower-income countries than in rich ones, according to a new report by Oxfam on behalf of the People’s Vaccine Alliance. “We all want this pandemic to be over, but we can’t ignore the billions of people in the global south still facing severe illness, death … Read more
Oxfam Canada published a new report, The Ignored Pandemic: The Dual Crisis of Gender-Based Violence and COVID-19, which shows the number of calls made by survivors to domestic violence hotlines in 10 countries during the first months of lockdown. “The double pandemic of COVID-19 and gender-based violence has been happening all over the world, and Canada is no exception. The … Read more
New figures from the Peoples Vaccine Alliance reveal that the companies behind two of the most successful COVID vaccines – Pfizer, BioNTech and Moderna – are making combined profits of $65,000 every minute. The figures based on the latest company reports are released as CEOs from pharmaceutical industry meet for the annual STAT summit from Nov. 16-18. The People’s … Read more
Oxfam released a study, Carbon inequality in 2030: Per capita consumption emissions and the 1.5⁰C goal, based on research by the Institute for European Environmental Policy and the Stockholm Environment Institute, which estimates how governments’ pledges will affect the carbon footprints of richer and poorer people around the world. It treats the global population and income groups as … Read more
The People’s Vaccine Alliance’s new report, A Dose of Reality, found that of the 1.8 billion COVID vaccine donations promised by rich nations, only 261 million doses (4 per cent) have been delivered to date, while western pharmaceutical companies have delivered only 12 per cent of the doses they allocated to COVAX, the initiative designed to help low- and middle-income countries get … Read more
Yemenis are battling a third wave of COVID-19, which threatens 99 per cent of the population who are unvaccinated, Oxfam said. Despite promises that COVAX, the global initiative to deliver vaccines, would achieve at least 23 per cent vaccination coverage in all member countries by the end of this year, less than one per cent of … Read more
A new report, Not Well Spent: A review of $1-billion federal funding to clean up Alberta’s inactive oil and gas wells, finds that the federal funding amounts to little more than a bailout to the oil and gas industry, and the $1 billion dispersed by the Government of Alberta’s program, the Site Rehabilitation Program, was not well spent. “The public should not be paying to clean up the … Read more
Canada’s economy could shrink by 6.9 per cent annually by 2050 without more ambitious climate action, according to Oxfam’s analysis of research by the Swiss Re Institute. Across G7 nations, the impacts of climate change could cause economies to contract by an average of 8.5 per cent annually by 2050 ― equivalent to $4.8 trillion. … Read more
The People’s Vaccine Alliance (which includes Oxfam, Global Justice Now and UNAIDS) revealed that at least nine people have become new billionaires since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, thanks to the excessive profits being made by pharmaceutical corporations with monopolies on COVID-19 vaccines. “What a testament to our collective failure to control this cruel disease that we quickly create … Read more
Diana Sarosi, Oxfam Canada’s director of Policy and Campaigns, issued a statement: “Canada’s statement released today by Minister of Small Business, Export Promotion and International Trade Mary Ng (Markham-Thornhill, Ont.) confirming their readiness to discuss the TRIPS waiver is a step in the right direction, but what the world needs is a full backing by Canada to … Read more
