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Six Weeks on, Organics has Role in Samoa Recovery
Tuesday, 10 November 2009, 10:00 am | Oxfam
Six weeks on from the devastating Samoa tsunami, Oxfam and its Samoan partner organisation, Women in Business, are helping affected families to rebuild their livelihoods through organic agriculture for niche export markets. Oxfam and Women in Business Development ... More >>
Poor to polluters: Help us deal with the damage
Thursday, 5 November 2009, 2:15 pm | Oxfam
International negotiators are meeting in Barcelona this week for the last time before the crucial Copenhagen climate change conference in December. The amount of funding that industrialised countries will provide to deal with the crisis they have caused ... More >>
Pacific Islands are being ‘hung out to dry’
Friday, 23 October 2009, 2:48 pm | Oxfam
Today, Pacific Islanders waded out into the sea and hung 350 T-shirts, each printed with the name of a different island, on a series of giant washing lines to highlight the insufficient action being taken to combat climate change. ‘350 Islands for ... More >>
Take the pace out of PACER:
Wednesday, 21 October 2009, 1:55 pm | Oxfam
Trade officials are assembling in Brisbane today to kick off negotiations on a new Pacific trade agreement. Ministers will follow later in the week. This is a crucial meeting which will test whether Australia and New Zealand are prepared to listen ... More >>
Trade Ministers Set Framework For PACER Talks
Wednesday, 21 October 2009, 11:53 am | Oxfam
Take the pace out of PACER: Trade ministers to set the framework for Pacific negotiations. More >>
Agriculture in a time of global food crisis
Thursday, 15 October 2009, 5:09 pm | Oxfam
Today, one in six people is starving. A combination of the food crisis and the global economic downturn has meant that just in the last year, 100 million more people have been pushed into hunger, bringing the number to 1.02 billion – the highest in four ... More >>
A Poor Excuse For Climate Complacency
Thursday, 15 October 2009, 9:49 am | Oxfam
The rift between rich and poor countries has intensified because rich countries have not put serious money on the table to help poor countries adapt to the escalating impacts of climate change and develop on a low-carbon pathway, international aid ... More >>
Blaming Developing Countries No Excuse on Climate
Tuesday, 13 October 2009, 4:55 pm | Oxfam
The rift between rich and poor countries has intensified because rich countries have not put serious money on the table to help poor countries adapt to the escalating impacts of climate change and develop on a low-carbon pathway, international aid ... More >>
Tsunami: Relief is only the first step
Friday, 9 October 2009, 2:20 pm | Oxfam
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 is still urgent. International agency Oxfam is stressing that recovery ... More >>
Slow Progress On Arms Trade
Friday, 9 October 2009, 12:50 pm | Oxfam
Talks to establish an effective international treaty on the trade in conventional arms are going at a snail’s pace because of self interest and delaying tactics by some major arms exporters, warned international agency Oxfam today. More >>
Oxfam ramps up response in Samoa
Monday, 5 October 2009, 11:04 am | Oxfam
After rushing in a relief team to help deliver the most basic emergency supplies – drinking water, shoes, clothes, Fala Lilii (mats), sleeping bags and boxes of tinned fish – international agency Oxfam is ramping up its response in Samoa. Oxfam ... More >>
Oxfam Emergency Staff Rush To Samoa Today
Thursday, 1 October 2009, 12:51 pm | Oxfam
International agency Oxfam is sending an emergency response team to Samoa today to help meet the urgent needs of people affected by the yesterday’s tsunami. Oxfam will be working alongside our Samoan partner organisation, Women in Business Development ... More >>
Oxfam Responds to Emergencies in Samoa, East Asia
Wednesday, 30 September 2009, 5:24 pm | Oxfam
Oxfam New Zealand is appealing to the New Zealand public to generously support Oxfam’s emergency response work following the earthquake and tsunami in Samoa and the flooding from Typhoon Ketsana in East Asia. More >>
Rich Countries Must Not Raid Aid For Climate Debt
Wednesday, 16 September 2009, 4:31 pm | Oxfam
A new Oxfam report has today warned that 4.5 million children could die unless world leaders deliver additional funds to help poor countries fight the growing impact of climate change, rather than diverting aid from existing commitments. The warning ... More >>
Tck Tck: Countdown to a Copenhagen climate deal
Saturday, 5 September 2009, 9:16 am | Oxfam
Video & Text: Oxfam Global Ambassador and Hollywood actor Gael Garcia Bernal stars in a new on-line advertisement made by international agency Oxfam urging people to join the new "tck tck tck" climate change campaign. More >>
Oxfam Trailwalker wins top NZ event awards
Friday, 7 August 2009, 4:16 pm | Oxfam
Oxfam New Zealand’s annual fundraiser Oxfam Trailwalker scooped the accolades at the Event Industry Awards last night, winning Best Environmentally Sustainable Event and Best Partnership award for the Taupo-based 100km team challenge.Oxfam Trailwalker ... More >>
Pacific Voices Ignored At Forum
Friday, 7 August 2009, 9:38 am | Oxfam
The Pacific Forum in Australia this week took place at a crucial time when the Pacific has been reeling from multiple crises – the local impacts of the global economic crisis, the aftermath of the food crisis, the impact of swine flu and the growing ... More >>
Pacific islanders speak out about climate change
Wednesday, 5 August 2009, 1:29 pm | Oxfam
Communities in the Pacific islands are among the world’s most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. On Saturday August 8, people from Kiribati, Tuvalu and the Federated States of Micronesia will tell New Zealanders that tackling climate ... More >>
Government must listen to Pacific leaders
Wednesday, 5 August 2009, 10:49 am | Oxfam
The possible launch of trade negotiations by Prime Minister John Key and the other Pacific leaders at the Pacific Islands Forum, beginning today in Cairns, must not plunge Pacific people already hit by the economic crisis, food crisis and climate ... More >>
Time for new trade approach from Pacific leaders
Friday, 31 July 2009, 9:44 am | Oxfam
Oxfam is calling for a new approach to negotiations on the Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations (PACER) which are likely to be launched at the Pacific Islands Forum in Australia August 5-6, 2009. Development for the Pacific Island countries ... More >>
