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...also the honorary president of OXFAM, an international anti-poverty organization, said current levels of inequality may not be justifiable, even if the poor are getting richer along with the rich...
...current era of globalization, the lives of people throughout the world can depend on something as simple as our morning cup of coffee. According to the international relief organization Oxfam, 130 million Americans drink coffee, consuming 450 million cups daily and spending $18 billion every year. The second most traded commodity after oil, coffee beans are grown by the labor of 20 million people in nearly 80 countries, using 26 million acres of land. In developing countries throughout Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia, coffee is primarily produced on small family farms...
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...There are meteorological concerns, too. The first winter snows are expected to more or less coincide with Ramadan, and famine relief groups such as Christian Aid, Oxfam and others working in Afghanistan have called for a pause in U.S. bombing in order to be able to deliver food to millions of vulnerable Afghanis before the snows make roads impassable. The U.S. and Britain have blamed the Taliban for impeding food distribution and Admiral Stufflebeem even warned Wednesday that the Taliban was planning to poison U.S. food aid packages and blame any resultant deaths on the donors...