Oxfam Australia

A wrap up of 2011 campaigns, acheivements and ongoing actions.

Professor Chuluun Togtokh raises a very valid point – the UN Development Index does not take ecological impact into account. Should it?

Most of us will be fortunate enough to never know disaster. Our lives will not be torn apart by flooding, famine, conflict. But the world is changing, and uncertainty confronts us all. Today, on World Humanitarian Day, we honour aid workers across the globe who are facing this uncertainty head-on.

The UN Security Council is expected shortly to authorize a new peacekeeping mission in South Sudan to succeed the current United Nations Mission in Sudan. We need your help to ensure that adequate numbers of troops are kept in the country to protect civilians in the world’s newest country.

The UN climate talks are still going strong on Bonn, as our intern Elsa Dominish explains.

After almost a week of climate change negotiations in Bonn, Germany, some progress is being made with countries setting out their plans for the Climate Summit in Durban later this year.

What does civil society at country level expect from the new UN women’s agency?

Domestic workers are among the most exploited workers in the world. According to human rights and labour organisations, action to support domestic workers rights is well and truly overdue.