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قد قتل الجيش الإسرائيلي خلال العام الماضي في قطاع غزة من النساء والأطفال عددًا يفوق عدد من قتلوا في جميع النزاعات الأخرى في نفس المدّة على مدى العقدين الماضيين، وفقًا لتحليل جديد أجرته منظمة أوكسفام.  

Oxfam welcomes today’s adoption of the Global Compact for Migration (GCM) as an historic moment. Governments have finally recognized in a formal way that migrants too have fundamental human rights that countries must observe in all their policies and practices. This is a significant achievement.

At the meeting of the European Council in Tallinn today France, Germany, Italy and Spain called for an agreement on new measures to tax tech giants, like Google and Amazon. Currently, disparate tax laws allow large companies to pay disproportionately low effective tax rates in the EU.

Oxfam's humanitarian coordinator Tariq Riebl said:

International agency Oxfam has been in the field and talked directly to people affected by continuous rains of hurricane Sandy.

Oxfam spokesperson Stephen Hale said:

Surendrini Wijeyaratne, Humanitarian Advisor for Oxfam said:
 

Oxfam spokesperson Elizabeth Stuart said:

Barbara Stocking, Chief Executive Oxfam said:

Over the weekend Oxfam began chlorinating water for 300,000 people in a slum area of Cap Haitien. Recent violence spread across the city and Oxfam had to stop those activities.

Marcel Stoessel, Country Director of Oxfam in the Democratic Republic of the Congo said: