Families pray for food and water in Timor-Leste
After years of punishing weather, the hungry season has well and truly taken hold of families like Maria's.
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For Australia’s UN appointment to have credibility, we need lasting reconciliation with our First Peoples
For Australia’s appointment to the United Nations Human Rights Council to have any credibility, the Government should address the significant issues confronting our First Peoples.
Teaching Controversial Issues: New PD Workshop for Teachers from Oxfam
Recently Oxfam's own Schools Program Coordinator Annalise De Mel presented a workshop on teaching controversial issues at a UNESCO global citizenship education conference in Seoul, South Korea.
A humanitarian crisis is unfolding in Bangladesh
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya families are living in makeshift camps, without shelter and clean water. If they're lucky, they may have plastic sheeting to sleep under, but mostly they are huddled under sarongs.
We’d like to dedicate this one to you
Last week, thanks to your support, Oxfam Australia was presented with ‘Best Social Innovation’ at the 2017 Australian Financial Review’s Most Innovative Companies awards for our Weather Index Insurance scheme in Sri Lanka.
Hurricane Irma: Oxfam is ready to save lives
Oxfam is on the ground in Haiti, Dominican Republic and Cuba ready to mobilise when Hurricane Irma hits.
Meet the women in Ghana who are turning honey into money
Augustina, a mother of three, is defying tradition and gender inequality in rural Ghana, with her own thriving honey business.
Helping Ghana’s poorest women turn money into honey
Augustina’s life was soured by hunger and uncertainty, until she was empowered, with the help of Oxfam, to start her own honey business.
In rural Ghana, the greatest burden is carried by women
In rural Ghana, the pangs of the Hungry Season are felt in all corners of the community. But the greatest burden is felt by women.
Women face hunger and hardship in rural Ghana
In rural Ghana, the odds are stacked against women like Beatrice. Unable to take part in the agriculture that sustains the region Beatrice breaks rocks to sell as gravel to get by — and still, her grandchildren go hungry.
