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Oxfam: Lift Palestinian aid freeze
Friday, 1 September 2006, 3:34 pm | Oxfam
International agency Oxfam is calling on donor governments, meeting in Stockholm today, to resume international aid to the Palestinian Authority in order to address the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the occupied Palestinian Territories. More >>
Oxfam Organises Fundraising Evening For Mid-East
Wednesday, 30 August 2006, 9:29 am | Oxfam
Oxfam and the Umma Trust are jointly hosting a dinner to raise funds for their relief and reconstruction work in the Middle East. Funds raised will assist people in Lebanon, Israel, and Gaza. More >>
Oxfam Delivering 1.5 Million Litres Of Water
Saturday, 26 August 2006, 2:54 pm | Oxfam
Oxfam is tankering 1.5 million litres of vital fresh drinking water every day to war ravaged Lebanon – enough to provide the basic daily needs of 50,000 people. The UN has identified the supply of clean water as one of the major aid priorities. More >>
Aid Agencies Welcome Cessation of Hostilities
Wednesday, 16 August 2006, 1:01 pm | Oxfam
At a press conference this morning these agencies welcomed the cessation of hostilities, but urged all parties including the international community to uphold their responsibilities under international law to ensure the establishment of the permanent ceasefire, the ... More >>
Humanitarian access a huge challenge for Oxfam
Tuesday, 15 August 2006, 4:39 pm | Oxfam
Oxfam welcomes the ceasefire agreed yesterday, however access remains an incredible challenge for Oxfam and other aid agencies. Hundreds of major roads and scores of bridges are impassable, and the ability to move supplies to where they are needed ... More >>
Lebanon: Stories From The Frontline
Friday, 11 August 2006, 11:01 am | Oxfam
One of Oxfam's partners in Lebanon, the National Association for Vocational Training and Social Services (Navtss) normally assists Palestinian refugees living in camps across the country. Since the conflict between Israel and Hizbullah guerrillas broke ... More >>
Last month Darfur's worst-ever for violence
Wednesday, 9 August 2006, 12:01 am | Oxfam
Aid agencies say insecurity is preventing vital assistance reaching those who need it, demand end to rising violence More >>
Call for reform of unfair WTO accession process
Thursday, 27 July 2006, 3:34 pm | Oxfam
Yesterday there was a further blow to the deeply unfair process for countries joining the World Trade Organisation (WTO). After ten years of painful negotiations, Tonga joined the WTO at the Hong Kong Ministerial meeting in December last year. But the ... More >>
Suspending WTO talks resolves nothing
Tuesday, 25 July 2006, 1:42 pm | Oxfam
International agency Oxfam believes that yesterday's suspension of the WTO Doha trade talks will not solve the underlying reasons why a development deal remains deadlocked and in crisis. More >>
US Farmers on W Africa Trip: 'US Policy Shameful'
Tuesday, 25 July 2006, 1:40 pm | Oxfam
A delegation of farmers has returned to the US after spending last week meeting with West African farmers and getting a first hand look at the effect of International agricultural policies on the lives of farmers in developing countries. The tour, ... More >>
Oxfam: Africa's poor are being failed
Monday, 24 July 2006, 12:17 am | Oxfam
After five decades of responding to food crises, Oxfam today asks the international community to seriously examine whether current approaches are working. Oxfam's new report argues that new thinking and more action are needed if we are to effectively ... More >>
Oxfam questions PM's claim regarding aid
Thursday, 20 July 2006, 2:12 pm | Oxfam
While Prime Minister Helen Clarke yesterday cited New Zealand's openness to trade to support her declaration that New Zealand pulls its weight internationally, Oxfam points out that this is only one side of the trade story. More >>
Oxfam red cards Adidas over human rights
Friday, 7 July 2006, 2:04 pm | Oxfam
Sportswear giant Adidas should stop back-pedalling, support human rights and deliver on its promise to insist on the reinstatement of sacked union leaders at a factory that manufactures its football boots promoted by World Cup stars David Beckham and ... More >>
US-EU Summit: No light at end of WTO tunnel
Thursday, 22 June 2006, 6:33 pm | Oxfam
Today’s EU-US Summit in Vienna will struggle to breathe new life into degenerating world trade talks, only a week before crucial negotiations start, says international agency Oxfam. More >>
EU promises are hollow: Pacific society groups
Sunday, 18 June 2006, 1:50 pm | Oxfam
The Pacific is being short changed. The European Union has promised to support development in the Pacific, but so far these promises have not been fulfilled. Civil Society groups from 12 Pacific countries meeting in Nadi, question what's in it for the Pacific ... More >>
Oxfam: Bullet trade out of control
Thursday, 15 June 2006, 9:18 am | Oxfam
On the day a petition of over 12,000 New Zealanders calling for an International Arms Trade Treaty is presented to Disarmament Minister Phil Goff, a new report on global bullet trade shows new ammunition supplies are widely available on the black ... More >>
NZ Slipping Behind in Aid
Friday, 9 June 2006, 2:55 pm | Oxfam
A new report from international agency Oxfam today shows that decisions made at last year's G8 in Scotland, following huge pressure from campaigners around the world, have led to real improvement in the lives of some of the world's poorest people. ... More >>
Oxfam relief reaches 100,000 quake victims
Friday, 2 June 2006, 5:08 pm | Oxfam
One week after a powerful earthquake rocked central Java, Oxfam and its local partners have provided emergency aid to 100,000 people in remote areas around Yogyakarta. More >>
Report from Pudong Indonesia
Thursday, 1 June 2006, 4:42 pm | Oxfam
It's now been five days since the earthquake hit Yogyakarta. On such a critical day, the following report from Paulette Song clearly shows that this is not 'old news', but that the hundreds of thousands of people affected by the earthquake still desperately ... More >>
Indonesia earthquake Oxfam Media Update
Tuesday, 30 May 2006, 11:26 am | Oxfam
Oxfam's emergency teams are now supporting an estimated 20,000 people made homeless by the Yogyakarta earthquake, providing them with clean water and essential supplies. Seventy-two hours after the powerful earthquake struck central Java near Yogyakarta, ... More >>
