The spread of cholera to 2,000 people in Papua New Guinea has highlighted the urgent need for additional support to tackle the root causes of the outbreak, international aid agency Oxfam said today. Read full release »
Less than a third of people living in one of the largest camps in Port au Prince say that they are willing to move to camps sited outside the city according to a snap-shot survey carried out by international agency Oxfam. If the new improved camps are established close to where they used to live then the proportion willing to move leaps to nearly three quarters. Read full release »
Nationals Senator Barnaby Joyce this week suggested Australia could make cuts to its overseas aid program to pay for services in Australia. Read full release »
Australia begins 2010 comfortable in the knowledge that it seems to have escaped the worst of the global economic crisis. But what about our region – the Pacific? A new report by Oxfam Australia reveals a disturbing lack of knowledge about the effects the crisis is having on our nearest neighbours. Read full release »
Waiting to see what other countries will do before adopting the target we know is needed to avoid dangerous climate change is a failure of leadership, Oxfam Australia said today. Read full release »
International aid agency Oxfam has started to employ people affected by Haiti’s earthquake to clean up their makeshift camps and improve their living conditions. Read full release »
The international community should use today’s conference in Montreal, Canada, to cancel Haiti’s outstanding US $890 million international debt in the wake of the devastating earthquake, international agency Oxfam said today. Read full release »
Responding to the Haiti earthquake has been one of the toughest challenges Oxfam has ever faced in its history of delivering aid, the international agency said today. Read full release »
Oxfam staff in Haiti are providing shovels and picks for local civil workers to clear rubble to search for trapped victims in the capital, Port-au-Prince, following Tuesday’s massive earthquake. Read full release »
An Oxfam staff member was killed when part of Oxfam's office crumbled in the devastating quake that hit Haiti on Tuesday. Read full release »
International aid agency Oxfam has dispatched additional emergency specialists to Haiti to bolster the agency’s response to the earthquake that struck the country on Tuesday. Read full release »
Oxfam is appealing for public support as the international aid agency responds to yesterday’s devastating earthquake in Haiti. Read full release »
International aid agency Oxfam is responding to today’s earthquake in Haiti. Read full release »
Oxfam Australia needs teams of three to race around the streets of Perth to raise money for its humanitarian aid and development work around the world. Read full release »
Major conflict could return to southern Sudan unless there is urgent international action to save the peace agreement that ended one of Africa’s longest and deadliest wars, Oxfam warned today. Read full release »
Shorbanu Khatun of Bangladesh stood out among the thousands of suited negotiators in Copenhagen. Khatun's husband was killed by a tiger when their land was parched by extended dry seasons and flooded with salt water, forcing him to venture into the jungle to feed his family. Read full release »
The ‘climate deal’ announced in Copenhagen today is a triumph of spin over substance, says international aid agency Oxfam. Read full release »
Mr Abbott may have won the majority of the votes in the party room, but if he wishes to do the same at the Federal Election, he must understand that the majority of Australians want action on climate change and will expect him to articulate a substantial policy, based on the science. Read full release »
Applications are being sought from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women from across the country for Oxfam’s Straight Talk Summit in Canberra, from 7 – 10 March 2010. Read full release »