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 »
Trade officials and Ministers have been meeting this week in Brisbane to hammer out a new trade agreement between the Pacific Island Countries, and Australia and New Zealand – PACER-Plus. Read full release »
Just over a week after tsunami waves scoured the southern coast of Samoa, killing one per cent of the population and seriously affecting one out of every six people, the relief effort remains urgent, says international aid agency Oxfam. Some survivors do not yet have clean drinking water and the threat of disease still hangs over the islands. Women and children are particularly at risk. Read full release »
International aid agency Oxfam has activated an unprecedented region-wide humanitarian response following a week of devastation across Asia Pacific. Oxfam staff and local partners are on the ground providing humanitarian aid to communities in the aftermath of the earthquake in Sumatra, the tsunami in Samoa and Typhoon Ketsana and Parma in the Philippines, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. Read full release »
International aid agency Oxfam’s emergency team is at work in Samoa today with their immediate focus to ensure survivors in remote rural areas have clean water and basic sanitation. Without coordinated action, the public health situation is at risk of deteriorating if people become dehydrated and sickness spreads through an already traumatised population. Read full release »
International aid agency Oxfam is sending emergency response staff to Padang, Indonesia, after a devastating 7.6 magnitude earthquake hit the island of Sumatra last night. Read full release »
International aid agency Oxfam is appealing for support from the Australian public after a devastating 24 hours across the Asia-Pacific region. Read full release »
International aid agency Oxfam is ready to respond to the tsunami in Samoa – the latest disaster to hit the Asia-Pacific region this week. Read full release »
International aid agency Oxfam Australia is lending its expertise in responding to major disasters to help respond to the Victorian bushfire tragedy. Read full release »
A warehouse containing essential emergency relief supplies opening today will enable Australian humanitarian agencies to respond faster to disasters in the region. Read full release »
Oxfam Australia aid worker Rebecca Vince (VIC) arrived in Port Moresby today to assist with the humanitarian relief effort following last week's cyclone that left up to 145,000 people without adequate access to shelter, food and water as well as medicine. Read full release »