Category: Campaigning for change
Stay up to date with Oxfam’s various campaigns.
A Blueprint for UN Women
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What does civil society at country level expect from the new UN women’s agency? Read more »
University of Sydney helps to close the gap
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The annual National Close the Gap Day held on March 24 serves as a focal point of efforts on the Close the Gap campaign. This year was really successful, with over 850 individual events held across the nation. Read more »
Brisbane hearts warm to climate plight of people of the Pacific
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By Oxfam Campaigns Brisbane intern Madeline Smith Climate change was a popular topic of conversation this past week at the Bleeding Heart Café Gallery in Brisbane. The gallery was the first in Queensland to host the remarkable photo exhibition ‘Land is Life’ by award winning photographer Rodney Dekker. A series of ‘Land is Life’ exhibitions […] Read more »
Fitzroy Stars helping to Close the Gap
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In celebration of National Close the Gap Day we join the Fitzroy Stars, an Aboriginal football club, on their training weekend. Not only is the club helping its players to live healthier lifestyles, it’s also spreading the word in the community about closing the life expectancy gap between Aboriginal men and other Australians. Read more »
Oxfam at the Kew Community Festival
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An update form the Oxfam campaigning team, and what they got up to at the Kew Community Festival. Read more »
International Women’s Day 2011: The human faces of climate change
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International Women’s Day 2011 was a lazily hot Monday in Melbourne’s Federation Square for Oxfam volunteer Allen Ai Lilun. Read more »
Fill the fund: Send your climate messages to the UN
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Last year the climate talks in Cancun saw the successful establishment of a global Climate Fund, one of our core campaigns asks last year. You can help make sure the Climate Fund is filled with cash so it can provide life-saving support to help the world’s poorest people fight the effects of climate change. Read more »
Climate action Sat 12 March Melbourne
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Join environment and progressive groups from around Australia for a few hours this Saturday and stand up for our vision of a clean energy future and a safe climate for our kids. Read more »
5 years of Close the Gap
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Today marks the fifth anniversary of the Close the Gap Campaign which works to close the life expectancy gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and other Australians within a generation. Read more »
Thank You Jo Vallentine, for 32 years of Oxfam support and activism
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On the 100th anniversary of International Women’s day we’d like to take a moment to thank Jo Vallentine, who has been an active Oxfam supporter since 1978. Read more »
