Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda)
Oxfam will be sending rapid emergency response teams to areas worst affected by Typhoon Haiyan after it tore through the Philippines.
BLOGS
You Spoke – Coca-Cola listened
What does it take to make a global sugar giant promise to improve its policies on land? You. And more than 225,000 other Oxfam supporters around the world.
Preserving Plenty
Cambodia is home to one of the world's most productive and abundant inland fisheries, which contribute nearly 12 per cent of Cambodia’s GDP and are a vital source of food, nutrition and income.
Water is more precious than gold
Communities in El Salvador have long opposed mining in the small and densely populated country. Much of El Salvador’s surface water is polluted, and in rural areas few people have access to clean water. A few years ago local farmers were outraged to discover pumps draining clean water from their local river to construct the Pacific Rim ‘El Dorado’ gold mine.
Moment of truth for Syria
It’s rare to see a diplomatic breakthrough in the Middle East but in the last few weeks, we’ve had some glimmers of hope for Syria. Efforts by the United States and Russia to rid Syria of all its chemical weapons, as well as calling for a second Geneva peace conference next month to find a […]
Joining the dots…
Last week was an exciting week with thousands of Australians taking part in Eat Local Feed Global while across the world campaigners visited the headquarters of global food giants to demand that they do more to prevent land grabs that are kicking poor farmers off their land in order to grow sugar for popular drinks. […]
Thank you for helping Eat Local Feed Global this year
Last Wednesday was World Food Day and as part of our work fighting poverty and hunger, we asked you to Eat Local Feed Global with friends or family and do your bit to reduce hunger around the world. And you answered a resounding ‘Yes!’ More than 400 events took place — with supporters just like […]
Your life-changing support
Back in 2009, we visited Adriana and her son Jovandro in Timor-Leste, where almost half of children under five are underweight (WHO 2013). Jovandro was very thin and very weak. But there is a happy ending to this story.
Lessons in breaking down barriers
Multilingual preschools in Bangladesh are breaking down barriers to education — and helping Indigenous children attend mainstream primary schools.
Your support is saving lives
It’s been described as the worst refugee crisis since the Rwandan genocide. Since conflict in Syria began more two and a half years ago, more than 100,000 people have lost their lives while almost 9 million people are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance. Over 2 million people, more than half of them children, have […]
