Are you passionate about human rights? Can you tell a good story? Do you have an iPhone? The Australian Human Rights Commission is recruiting up to 10 people for the Tell Me A Story program. Participants will work with the Commission to produce short videos about ordinary people taking extraordinary human rights actions. You don’t […]
In a video blog she recorded while in Burkina Faso for Oxfam recently, former Democrats leader Natasha Stott Despoja describes her visit to Koutoula Yarce village, where she saw a cash-for-work program in action and met an amazing woman called Awa.
In the second part of her interview, Indonesian lawyer-turned-farmer Maria Loretha talks about sorghum's many benefits and its potential as a solution to food insecurity.
Australia’s bid for the UN Security Council looms large over Julia Gillard’s trip to the UN General Assembly in New York. The Prime Minister and her delegation will no doubt be in for a hand shaking, elevator pitching frenzy as Australia seeks to tie up support for the vote next month. Much of the discussion […]
"Because they called me crazy, I wanted to prove their words were wrong." In part one of a two-part interview, Maria Loretha talks about the challenges of going from being a big-city lawyer in Java to a small-scale sorghum farmer in Flores.
The results are in. The Arctic summer melt record has not merely been broken. It’s been smashed – confounding experts and revealing that ice loss is happening far faster than models predicted. The previous record, set in 2007 was surpassed on 27 August, weeks before the end of the melt season. Since then we have […]
Wild weather on Friday didn’t stop Oxfam GROW-RILLA gorillas setting up a guerrilla veggie garden in a Perth CBD parking bay and giving away vegetable seedlings to raise awareness of global hunger. Hundreds of other car parks were also converted to gardens all over the globe as part of World Park(ing) day. Oxfam’s GROW campaign […]
On her second day in Niger, Oxfam's Louise Mooney wakes up to much-needed rain, and meets one of Oxfam's beneficiaries, widowed mother-of-nine Fara, who tells her, “May God help the people of Australia for helping us”.
Louise Mooney is the humanitarian program coordinator for Oxfam Australia's Africa unit, and is currently in Niger to see how our response to the West Africa food crisis is unfolding. Here, she reports from her first full day in Niamey.
Spring has well and truly sprung for our 3things team, and they're celebrating with Ethical Fashion Month. From a DIY Clothes Swap Kit to interviews with ethical fashion folk, it's all happening.
