A new report from international agency Oxfam today reveals that 45 million more children will die needlessly by 2015, because rich countries are failing to provide the necessary resources they promised to overcome poverty. The report finds that rich countries' aid budgets are half what they were in 1960.  December 9, 2004

Oxfam wants more rich-world action on global poverty
Rich nations need to do much more to overcome global poverty, Oxfam said in a report aimed at influencing Britain's turn at the helm of the Group of Eight leading industrialised nations.
Agence France Presse  - December 9, 2004

Oxfam raps rich nations over aid
Rich nations need to do much more to overcome global poverty, the aid agency Oxfam says in a report. In real terms, the aid budgets of rich countries are half what they were in 1960, the charity claims.
BBC  - December 9, 2004

U.S., Italy, Japan Named by Oxfam as G-8's Stingiest Aid Donors
The U.S., Italy and Japan are the stingiest foreign aid donors in the Group of Eight nations, Oxfam said, aiming to put pressure on world leaders to boost payments to poor nations by $50 billion next year.
Bloomberg  - December 6, 2004

45 mln kids threatened by failed aid promises: Oxfam
About 45 million children around the world will die in the next decade because rich countries have failed to meet their aid promises, humanitarian agency Oxfam said on Monday.
Reuters  - December 6, 2004

Foreign aid threatened by anti-terrorism, says Oxfam
The "war on terror" threatens to revive an era when foreign aid was dictated by security concerns rather than poverty reduction, Oxfam, the UK-based campaign group, warns in a report published today.
Financial Times (UK)  - December 5, 2004

Developed world seen morally obliged to boost aid
Rich countries have let foreign aid budgets fall by half since the 1960s despite their own increasing prosperity, and are morally obliged to boost their help for poor nations, a development advocacy group said on Sunday.
Reuters  - December 5, 2004