Word: oxfam
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...keep HELEN MIRREN off the world stage. The Oscar-nominated actress, brave enough to go stark naked in Calendar Girls, was all set to visit Sudan's Darfur region this week to use her celebrity status to call attention to the genocide there. A surge in violence prompted Oxfam, the sponsor, to cancel the trip, but Mirren refused to make her exit. After a minor script adjustment, she is now headed to northern Uganda, another African hot spot, where 18 years of war have driven more than 1.6 million people from their homes, including some 20,000 children abducted...
...addition to his ample academic duties, Sen has also been the honorary president for OXFAM, a global organization that works to overcome poverty. He now serves as OXFAM’s honorary adviser. For both his academic work and his humanistic concerns, he has accumulated a long list of honors...
...tiny country, where life expectancy is just 57 years, is still on economic life-support. Aid group Oxfam last week warned it would become a failed state unless it could negotiate a bigger share of petroleum revenues. Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri says his country intends to save most of the oil income for future generations and will not follow the example of resource-rich neighbors that have squandered their wealth or been strangled by corruption: "Without a strong institutional footing, high levels of public investment would be dangerous." Idleness will not be tolerated either, he says. "We need to push...
...Trade business. They are taking a page from an old Nike playbook, which could be risky in today's politically charged market. When the shoemaker originally balked at changing work conditions at its contracted factories, a consumer backlash damaged the company's reputation and sales. Humanitarian groups such as Oxfam and Co-op America are now asking big wholesalers to switch at least 2% of their purchases to Fair Trade. And last November, Catholic Relief Services launched an effort to persuade the nation's 65 million Catholics "to live out their faith" by drinking Fair Trade brew. They are joining...
...Africa over the past two decades: In the 1980s, African countries were actually a net supplier of capital to industrialized countries. As late as 1993, rich countries took three dollars back in the form of loan repayments for every dollar given to Africa in aid, according to the 1995 Oxfam Poverty Report...