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Report: Climate change already hitting Pacific
Monday, 27 July 2009, 10:50 am | Oxfam
New report on climate change impacts in the Pacific highlights need for action now An Oxfam report published today highlights that Pacific Islanders are already feeling the effects of climate change and need greater support to address the dramatic effects ... More >>
Plans To Criminalize Generic Meds Could Hurt Poor
Wednesday, 15 July 2009, 12:43 pm | Oxfam
International agency Oxfam fears that companies producing affordable generic medicines could be subject to criminal prosecutions and have their medicines seized on orders from big drug companies under plans being drawn up by a closed group of mainly rich ... More >>
Faltering Investments Leaving Rural Poor Behind
Tuesday, 30 June 2009, 2:57 pm | Oxfam
Today’s food crisis could worsen dramatically as decades of declining investment in agriculture have constrained the ability of the world’s poorest people to cope with climatic and economic shocks, according to a new report released today by international ... More >>
New report to break deadlock in climate talks
Friday, 12 June 2009, 10:17 am | Oxfam
A new report launched today could help break the deadlock at the heart of the UN climate talks currently underway in Bonn, Germany. It spells out who is going to cut emissions and who is going to pay. The Oxfam report, ‘Hang Together or Separately? ... More >>
Cirque du Soleil and Oxfam join forces
Thursday, 11 June 2009, 12:33 pm | Oxfam
World renowned troupe Cirque du Soleil is giving Kiwis the chance to not only be dazzled by its latest masterpiece Dralion in Auckland in July, but to also help raise $80,000 towards the work of international development agency Oxfam New Zealand. More >>
Video: Key Feels the Heat in climate change action
Monday, 8 June 2009, 4:59 pm | Oxfam
Video: Ice carver Victor Cagayat creates life-size ice sculpture of John Key for World Environment Day. In honour of World Environment Day, John Key is making a special appearance in downtown Auckland today in the form of a life-size ice sculpture, holding ... More >>
NZ’s Aid Must Continue To Focus On Poor
Friday, 1 May 2009, 2:45 pm | Oxfam
Oxfam New Zealand welcomed the recognition by the Foreign Minister today that aid must be focused on the needs of the poor, and particularly on the Pacific region. Barry Coates, Executive Director of Oxfam New Zealand, said in the past few months, ... More >>
Oxfam International Aids Thousands In Sri Lanka
Saturday, 25 April 2009, 12:55 pm | Oxfam
For immediate release 25 April 2009 Oxfam International Aids Thousands Displaced By Sri Lankan Conflict More >>
Largest field completes Oxfam Trailwalker 2009
Monday, 6 April 2009, 9:43 am | Oxfam
A marriage proposal, blisters, hugs, champagne and tears of exhaustion filled the finish line at this year’s Oxfam Trailwalker 2009 held in Taupo April 4 and 5, as the largest field ever tackled the mammoth 100km walk within 36 hours. The start ... More >>
Countdown To The Oxfam 100km Team Challenge
Friday, 3 April 2009, 9:09 am | Oxfam
When the start gun sounds at 6am this Saturday in Taupo, the largest field of participants to take part in Oxfam Trailwalker will set off on a 100km journey on foot to help raise money for Oxfam’s work to fight poverty and injustice around the world. More >>
US rejoins Climate Talks in Bonn
Wednesday, 1 April 2009, 3:55 pm | Oxfam
Todd Stern, US Climate Change Envoy for the United States said President Obama's administration was 'seized with the urgency of the task before us' at the opening session of international climate change talks in Bonn today. More >>
ThousandsTaking Part In Oxfam’s Coffee Breaks
Thursday, 26 March 2009, 11:25 am | Oxfam
Sign ups to host an Oxfam’s Biggest Coffee Break have tripled since this time last year with more than 15,000 people expected to take part in the annual event in May. Oxfam Coffee Breaks are held anytime during Fairtrade Fortnight (May 2-17) and help ... More >>
Bloggers To Make History At G20 Summit
Wednesday, 25 March 2009, 1:42 pm | Oxfam
A coalition of NGOs - the G20Voice – and the UK government are breaking with convention and, for the first time, allowing 50 bloggers to report live and direct from the G20 summit on April 2, 2009 in London, UK. More >>
Bloggers to make history at G20 Summit
Wednesday, 25 March 2009, 1:17 pm | Oxfam
A coalition of NGOs - the G20Voice – and the UK government are breaking with convention and, for the first time, allowing 50 bloggers to report live and direct from the G20 summit on April 2, 2009 in London, UK. More >>
Likelihood Of Disaster For The World’s Poorest
Wednesday, 11 March 2009, 2:13 pm | Oxfam
New science which predicts a rise in sea level's of one metre or more by the end of the century would spell disaster for the some of the world's poorest people. The new forecasts, announced at an international meeting of climate scientists in Copenhagen, ... More >>
Politics and aid don’t mix: Oxfam
Monday, 9 March 2009, 4:05 pm | Oxfam
Oxfam New Zealand is calling for the Foreign Minister, Murray McCully, to ensure that New Zealand’s aid dollars continue to be managed well and benefit the poor. Proposed changes to NZAID, the government's aid programme, threaten to tie aid to ... More >>
Zimbabwe Turns Over A New Leaf - Oxfam Report
Friday, 13 February 2009, 8:35 am | Oxfam
Oxfam aid worker, Caroline Gluck, writes from Zimbabwe: On my way to work for the first time since I’d been in Zimbabwe, I passed two women sweeping litter and leaves from a street corner... On this day, it seemed highly symbolic ─ a clean sweep. More >>
Civilians in the midst of war
Thursday, 5 February 2009, 2:35 pm | Oxfam
I’m in Gaza for the second time since the ceasefires. I’m meeting six people who just survived a war. I’m hearing about school yard panic. The first missiles struck Gaza City just as schools were emptying. School children, teachers and parents ... More >>
Eye Witness: Oxfam Advocate Blogs From Inside Gaza
Thursday, 15 January 2009, 12:01 pm | Oxfam
Eye Witness: Oxfam’s Advocacy and Media Researcher, reports on the Israeli military operation from his home in Gaza city . He writes: "We have no clean water left. Our water tank is empty. My father could not turn away the increasing amount of people ... More >>
Oxfam Dairy Report - Black Saturday in Gaza
Wednesday, 31 December 2008, 11:11 pm | Oxfam
Gaza City – 28th December 2007 – Mohammed Ali Oxfam’s Advocacy and Media Researcher reports on the Israeli military operation from his home in Gaza city. At least 360 Palestinians are reported to have been killed. More >>
