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Peters Handed MPH Petition On Parliament Steps
Tuesday, 15 May 2007, 11:22 am | Oxfam
120,000 Messages calling for an end to poverty given to Winston Peters - Make Poverty History Aotearoa hands over petition. Two years of campaigning paid off today when Foreign Minister Winston Peters accepted a representative petition from members of ... More >>
Oxfam welcomes increase in foreign aid
Monday, 14 May 2007, 1:33 pm | Oxfam
Oxfam welcomes the increase in overseas development assistance announced today as part of the Government's 2007-2008 Budget. Foreign Minister Winston Peters announced that the Government would meet their election promise and increase their foreign ... More >>
Studies show Government needs to increase aid
Thursday, 10 May 2007, 9:46 am | Oxfam
Oxfam New Zealand have called on the government to increase its development assistance levels for the forth-coming budget, following the release of several reports showing that New Zealand is still giving some of the lowest levels of aid per capita. More >>
Oxfam Challenges the EU To Extend Access
Thursday, 26 April 2007, 4:21 pm | Oxfam
The European Commission has threatened some of the world's poorest countries, including nations in the Pacific, with lower access to the EU market if they fail to sign new free trade deals known as Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) by the end of 2007, ... More >>
Oxfam action against unfair trade deals
Thursday, 19 April 2007, 4:08 pm | Oxfam
Oxfam campaigners performed a protest stunt in Wellington city today as part of an international call to action against unfair trade deals the European Union is imposing on the Pacific. More >>
Oxfam Solomons response in full swing
Wednesday, 18 April 2007, 12:36 am | Oxfam
Thanks to the generous support of major institutional donors and the corporate sector in Australia and New Zealand, international aid agency Oxfam continues its humanitarian response to meet the needs of the thousands of people left homeless in the aftermath ... More >>
Oxfam emergency workers leave for Solomons
Thursday, 5 April 2007, 10:29 am | Oxfam
Oxfam is deploying additional emergency workers to help with the assessment, recovery and emergency support in the aftermath of the Solomon Islands earthquake and tsunami that left dozens killed and rendered thousands of people homeless and in urgent need ... More >>
NZ Govt one of the least generous aid givers
Wednesday, 4 April 2007, 9:48 am | Oxfam
In the run up to the government's budget announcement, Oxfam is calling for an increase in foreign aid assistance following the release of new figures that show that New Zealand is still languishing near the bottom of OECD nations. More >>
Assessing needs of communities affected by tsunami
Tuesday, 3 April 2007, 10:52 am | Oxfam
International agency Oxfam has started its response to help people affected by the tsunami triggered by yesterday's (Monday, April 2) earthquake. Oxfam's Solomon Islands Disaster Management Officer, Rex Tara, yesterday led an assessment mission dispatched ... More >>
Spread Of Free Trade Threatens Poor Countries
Thursday, 22 March 2007, 1:59 pm | Oxfam
Rich countries are using regional and bilateral trade deals to attain concessions they cannot get at the World Trade Organisation (WTO), with serious implications for poor countries' development, says a new report published by Oxfam today. More >>
Gael Garcia Bernal supports Oxfam fair trade call
Thursday, 22 March 2007, 1:07 pm | Oxfam
The Mexican actor, Gael Garcia Bernal, star of two films currently playing in UK cinemas, Babel and The Science of Sleep, today added his voice to calls for fairer trade rules for poor countries, as Oxfam, the international development charity, ... More >>
Spread of Trade Agreements threaten poor countries
Thursday, 22 March 2007, 10:45 am | Oxfam
Rich countries are using regional and bilateral trade deals to attain concessions they cannot get at the World Trade Organisation (WTO), with serious implications for poor countries' development, says a new report published by Oxfam today. More >>
EU Ministers must act to stop unfair trade deals
Tuesday, 13 March 2007, 12:08 am | Oxfam
European Development Ministers meeting in Bonn this week (March 12-13) must act to stop the unfair free trade deals between the EU and countries in Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific (ACP), otherwise millions of people will be locked into poverty, said ... More >>
Trade in Pacific: Oxfam takes concerns to Pasifika
Thursday, 8 March 2007, 1:05 pm | Oxfam
The European Commission is pushing the world's poorest countries, including those in the Pacific, to sign Economic Partnership Agreements with the EU by the end of the year. As currently proposed, these trade agreements will make the lives of 750 ... More >>
Oxfam: The Sweetest Valentine's Kiss
Wednesday, 14 February 2007, 4:57 pm | Oxfam
Goldenhorse singer Kirsten Morrell today showed where her heart was on Valentine's Day by puckering up and adding her lips to Oxfam's Chocolate Kiss petition outside Nestlé's Auckland headquarters. More >>
Oxfam gets sweet over Valentine
Thursday, 8 February 2007, 2:48 pm | Oxfam
If you really want to show your love this Valentine's Day, Oxfam suggests a gift of chocolate that means as much to your beloved as it does to the people who grew the cocoa. This year, give Fairtrade chocolate. More >>
African leaders, Ban Ki-Moon must act at AU
Tuesday, 30 January 2007, 11:57 am | Oxfam
Aid agencies today warned the enormous humanitarian response in Darfur will soon be paralysed unless African and global leaders at the AU Summit take urgent action to end rising violence against civilians and aid workers. They said African Heads ... More >>
Oxfam: Bombings targeting innocent civilians
Monday, 15 January 2007, 3:24 pm | Oxfam
Oxfam is receiving reports from its partner organisations in Somalia that nomadic herdsmen have been hit in recent bombing raids. According to the reports from local organisations in Afmadow district, bombs have hit vital water sources as well as ... More >>
Tsunami two years on - Oxfam
Sunday, 24 December 2006, 1:16 pm | Oxfam
Tsunami two years on – a great deal achieved but more to be done says Oxfam More >>
Darfur: Ceasefire desperately needed
Sunday, 17 December 2006, 2:09 pm | Oxfam
Nearly half a million people have less access to humanitarian assistance as a result of increasing military activity, banditry and direct violence against aid workers in early December. The insecurity led to 250 humanitarian staff – from key locations ... More >>
