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The world's richest one percent increased their fortunes by a total of $42 trillion over the past decade, British NGO Oxfam announced ahead of a G20 summit in Brazil where taxing the super-rich is top of the agenda.

The world's richest one percent increased their fortunes by a total of $42 trillion over the past decade, Oxfam said Thursday, ahead of a G20 summit in Brazil where taxing the super-rich tops the agenda.

Failure to invest in adapting to a changing climate threatens fundamental rights in France, anti-inequality campaigners Oxfam warned on Monday. Heatwaves, floods and other extreme weather mean that safe places to study, work and access healthcare are increasingly hard to guarantee, the group says.

The rate of low-wage workers in the U.S. has drastically decreased, but disparities among minorities in certain states, like Texas, remains high

Other lives: Social worker committed to the care of children in disaster relief work throughout the world

The fluctuating policy has targeted a huge range of items, as tracked by an Israeli human rights group. The latest version of the blockade is nearly total

Oxfam analysis finds Woolworths, Hancock Prospecting and NAB among companies to rake in much higher profits off the back of crisis conditions

Charity granted permission to intervene after ministers rejected calls to suspend weapon sales

Israel must end occupation and its G7 allies must ‘move from words to action. The time for talking is done,’ Oxfam says.