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Super Fund's move to divest from cluster bombs
Friday, 4 April 2008, 4:40 pm | Oxfam
Oxfam New Zealand welcomes today's announcement by the New Zealand Superannuation Fund that it will take measures to divest from companies engaged in the production of cluster munitions. The use of this deadly explosive weapon has resulted in the ... More >>
New Zealand development aid still lags far behind
Friday, 4 April 2008, 2:16 pm | Oxfam
Oxfam New Zealand remains concerned over the low level of aid spending. New figures to be released in Tokyo today by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) show that New Zealand's level of aid remains at 0.27 percent of Gross National ... More >>
Oxfam Partner Wins Int. Women of Courage Award
Wednesday, 12 March 2008, 9:52 am | Oxfam
Virisila Buadromo, Executive Director of Oxfam New Zealand programme partners, Fiji Women's Rights Movement, has won an International Women of Courage Award. The award was given yesterday in Washington by the U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. ... More >>
Calls for Govt stand strong on cluster bomb b
Monday, 18 February 2008, 9:19 am | Oxfam
Ahead of the opening of the biggest disarmament meeting that New Zealand has ever hosted, the Wellington Conference on Cluster Munitions, Oxfam New Zealand has called on the government to take strong stand to ensure the draft treaty prohibiting this ... More >>
Oxfam: Govt Must Stand Strong on Cluster Bomb Ban
Monday, 18 February 2008, 8:22 am | Oxfam
Ahead of the opening of the biggest disarmament meeting that New Zealand has ever hosted, the Wellington Conference on Cluster Munitions, Oxfam New Zealand has called on the government to take strong stand to ensure the draft treaty prohibiting this ... More >>
Nobel Laureate to speak at Auckland Breakfast
Monday, 11 February 2008, 12:45 am | Oxfam
Kiwis will have the opportunity to hear Nobel Laureate Jody Williams speak at a public breakfast held by Oxfam New Zealand at the Auckland Museum on Thursday 21 February. Williams, who is Director of the Nobel Women's Initiative, and last year ... More >>
Israel's Blockade Affects Gaza's Sick and Elderly
Tuesday, 29 January 2008, 9:45 am | Oxfam
Oxfam: Israel's blockade poses immediate threat to the lives of Gaza's sick and elderly More >>
EU trade agreements poses threat to development
Friday, 21 December 2007, 5:25 pm | Oxfam
EU Ministers will today formally approve a market access regulation for African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries with which the EC has concluded interim trade agreements. Development campaigners warn these deals may devastate livelihoods and ... More >>
Oxfam partner win Pacific UN Human Rights award
Friday, 14 December 2007, 10:46 am | Oxfam
Oxfam New Zealand programme partners, Kup Women for Peace (Papua New Guinea), have won the 7th Pacific Human Rights Award. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) award, which honours extraordinary efforts in advancing human rights throughout ... More >>
US-EU Trade Proposal: Old Wine, Different Bottles
Tuesday, 11 December 2007, 9:58 am | Oxfam
The US and EU have billed their proposal to eliminate tariff and non tariff barriers on a range of goods and services that can have environmental uses as bold and new, but according to Oxfam, it is neither. More >>
Catastrophe is just beginning for Bangladesh
Wednesday, 21 November 2007, 10:25 am | Oxfam
Early warning systems and shelters saved an estimated 100,000 lives in last week's Cyclone Sidr, but Oxfam is warning that without a massive international response the country faces its worst humanitarian crisis in decades. More >>
Oxfam Aust. Responds To Bangladesh Cyclone Sidr
Tuesday, 20 November 2007, 7:44 pm | Oxfam
Bangladesh had already lost crops in northern and central areas after severe floods in July. Oxfam fears the combined impact of these two disasters on one of the world's poorest countries could be massive. More >>
Oxfam Responds To The Bangladesh Cyclone
Tuesday, 20 November 2007, 7:40 pm | Oxfam
Our immediate focus will be helping more than 80,000 people in the hard-hit districts of Daerhat, Pirojpur, Barguna and Patuakhali meet their basic needs for food, water, shelter, and sanitation. More >>
Cyclone survivors urgently need food and shelter
Monday, 19 November 2007, 10:15 am | Oxfam
Tens of thousands of people in Bangladesh urgently need food and shelter after a cyclone hit the country on Thursday night, international aid agency Oxfam said today. More >>
Oxfam launches appeal for massive S Asian floods
Wednesday, 8 August 2007, 1:32 pm | Oxfam
Oxfam internationally today launched a NZ$2.5 million appeal as it scales up its work to help almost 200,000 people affected by floods in India, Bangladesh and Nepal, desperately needing assistance. More >>
Oxfam Global Ambassadors: Johansson, Lennox, Tutu…
Tuesday, 24 July 2007, 11:15 am | Oxfam
Scarlett Johansson has become the latest celebrity to join Oxfam's Global Ambassador program, officially launched today. Scarlett decided to sign up following a trip to India and Sri Lanka where she visited young Dalit girls in a rural school, and ... More >>
Oxfam: NZ Needs To Change Tack On Doha Talks
Monday, 25 June 2007, 1:28 pm | Oxfam
The breakdown of trade talks between India, Brazil, the EU and US was a result of a non-transparent and exclusive process and the failure of the richest countries to table offers that would give reality to the notion of this being a "Development ... More >>
Oxfam Urges EU Foreign Ministers
Tuesday, 19 June 2007, 1:18 pm | Oxfam
EU Foreign Ministers must ensure Israel ends its blockade of Gaza when they meet Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni in Luxembourg today, warned international agency Oxfam. More >>
Oxfam to withdraw from Darfur's largest camp
Monday, 18 June 2007, 1:32 pm | Oxfam
International aid agency Oxfam today announced it will permanently phase out activities in Gereida, the largest camp in Darfur where more than 130,000 people have sought refuge from violence. The agency criticised the local SLM authorities' lack of action ... More >>
Oxfam reaction to G8 agreement on climate change
Friday, 8 June 2007, 10:43 am | Oxfam
Today the group of G8 countries meeting in Germany announced that they had come to an agreement on climate change. The core elements of the communiqué that emerged on Thursday afternoon were: More >>
