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Final Oxfam Trailwalker Event In New Zealand To Take Place This Weekend
Wednesday, 20 March 2024, 3:51 pm | Oxfam NZ
Since 2006, over 20,000 New Zealanders have taken part in this incredible endurance team event while fundraising for Oxfam Aotearoa. After 17 events, raising more than $16 million to fund lifesaving work around the world, Oxfam Trailwalker has become ... More >>
NGOs And Unions Unite Behind Call For Urgent Phaseout Of Fossil Fuel Production In Aotearoa In New Oxfam Report
Tuesday, 5 December 2023, 10:27 am | Oxfam NZ
While the Government plans new oil and gas exploration, Oxfam Aotearoa has published a new report saying it’s time to close the industry down for good. Released on COP28’s Just Transition Day, 'Closing Time' shows how fossil fuel expansion would ... More >>
Half A Million Civilians Caught In Northern Gaza ‘siege Within A Siege’ - Oxfam
Monday, 6 November 2023, 12:06 pm | Oxfam NZ
Oxfam is gravely concerned for the lives of around 500,000 Palestinians, alongside any of the more than 200 Israeli and other national hostages, currently trapped in a "siege within a siege" in northern Gaza. Israeli forces have imposed ... More >>
EARTHQUAKE: Oxfam And Partners Aim To Reach Nearly 2 Million Affected People In Turkiye And Syria
Tuesday, 14 February 2023, 12:49 pm | Oxfam NZ
Oxfam, together with our partners in Turkiye (Turkey) and Syria, is working to reach nearly 2 million people – 10 percent of the population affected by the quake – with aid and support so that they can rebuild their lives. Meryem Aslan, Oxfam Spokeswoman ... More >>
Two-weeks Increase In Food Billionaires’ Wealth Enough To Fully Fund East Africa Hunger Crisis Response
Monday, 18 July 2022, 1:45 pm | Oxfam NZ
Food inflation in East African countries where tens of millions of people are caught in an alarming hunger crisis has increased sharply, reaching a staggering 44 percent in Ethiopia – nearly five times the global average. It is estimated that one person ... More >>
Throwing Away Vaccines And Reaction To OECD Statement
Wednesday, 16 February 2022, 10:01 am | Oxfam NZ
In response to the statement issued today by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) Development Assistance Committee, which says that countries will be able to count donations of unwanted vaccine doses as part of their foreign ... More >>
African Leaders Launch “Year Of Nutrition”
Friday, 4 February 2022, 9:40 am | Oxfam NZ
Tough, urgent choices for African leaders as they launch “Year of Nutrition” to help millions of people facing hunger African governments should boost funding for agriculture, address peace and security challenges, and do more to genuinely ... More >>
NZ Company Working With Oxfam To Turn Seawater Into Drinking Water In Tonga
Tuesday, 25 January 2022, 11:03 am | Oxfam NZ
Bay of Islands based company Open Oceans says it is pleased the desalination units developed on request of Oxfam in 2014 are still helping to save lives in Tonga today. Over the weekend, Oxfam Aotearoa finally made contact with their partner Tongan National ... More >>
Oxfam Reaction To Pfizer’s Announcement Of Voluntary Licenses
Thursday, 18 November 2021, 9:49 am | Oxfam NZ
In reaction to Pfizer’s announcement of voluntary licenses of its COVID-19 oral antiviral treatment Paxlovid to the Medicines Patent Pool, People’s Vaccine Alliance spokesperson and Oxfam America’s Senior Advocacy Advisor, Robbie Silverman, said: ... More >>
Reaction To Pledge To End Overseas Fossil Fuel
Friday, 5 November 2021, 9:56 am | Oxfam NZ
Responding to reports that around 20 countries, including New Zealand, have committed to stop financing overseas fossil fuel projects by the end of 2022, Oxfam's climate policy lead Nafkote Dabi said: "This is an encouraging move that will divert ... More >>
Oxfam, Amnesty And ActionStation React To Govt Announcement Today Re Afghanistan
Thursday, 7 October 2021, 4:40 pm | Oxfam NZ
In response to the Government's announcement today on Afghanistan , the collective voice of 61 organisations, individuals and leaders including ActionStation, Amnesty International Aotearoa New Zealand and Oxfam Aotearoa said: “We welcome ... More >>
‘Net Zero’ Carbon Targets Are Dangerous Distractions From The Priority Of Cutting Emissions Says New Oxfam Report
Tuesday, 3 August 2021, 4:37 pm | Oxfam NZ
Using land alone to remove the world’s carbon emissions to achieve ‘net zero’ by 2050 would require at least 1.6 billion hectares of new forests, equivalent to 60 times the size of New Zealand or more than all the farmland on the planet, reveals ... More >>
Vaccine Monopolies Make Cost Of Vaccinating The World Against Covid At Least Five Times More Expensive Than It Could Be
Saturday, 31 July 2021, 4:29 pm | Oxfam NZ
The cost of vaccinating the world against COVID-19 could be at least five times cheaper if pharmaceutical companies weren’t profiteering from their monopolies on COVID-19 vaccines, campaigners from the People’s Vaccine Alliance said today. ... More >>
Wealth Of New Zealand’s Richest Person’s Soars By $3.4bn Since Beginning Of Pandemic
Monday, 25 January 2021, 10:32 pm | Oxfam NZ
New Zealand’s richest citizen, Graeme Hart, has seen his fortune increase by NZ$3,494,333,333 since March 2020 – a sum equivalent to over half a million New Zealanders receiving a cheque for NZ$6,849 each, reveals a new analysis from Oxfam today. The New Zealand ... More >>
Kiwis’ Carbon Footprint 13 Times That Of Poorest Half Of World’s Population
Saturday, 12 December 2020, 12:23 pm | Oxfam NZ
New Zealand’s efforts to tackle climate change are under fresh scrutiny as global leaders meet this weekend to announce ambitious plans to meet the challenges of the climate crisis. An exclusive group of countries have been accepted to speak at ... More >>
New Zealand’s Climate Finance Lifeline Not Enough To Reach Frontline Countries – Oxfam
Thursday, 10 December 2020, 1:35 pm | Oxfam NZ
New Zealand’s overseas climate finance is a lifeline to many of the world’s poorest countries and communities on the frontlines of climate change, but the level of funding provided until now falls far below what is needed to meet our international ... More >>
More Than 2 Million People Impacted As Super Typhoon Goni Sweeps Across The Philippines
Tuesday, 3 November 2020, 11:57 am | Oxfam NZ
Oxfam is working with local partners and coordinating with local governments in the Philippines to assess the damage and needs of affected communities following Super Typhoon Goni’s four landfalls yesterday and early this morning. At least ... More >>
World At A Crossroads: Extra Billion Dollars Required In Time Of Unprecedented Need
Wednesday, 22 July 2020, 9:56 am | Oxfam NZ
A group of New Zealand’s leading international aid agencies have launched a joint campaign today, calling for New Zealand to dramatically increase its aid funding and climate finance for poorer countries. Oxfam, World Vision and Christian ... More >>
Oxfam Announces New Location For 100km Charity Walk In Taranaki
Tuesday, 2 June 2020, 8:40 am | Oxfam NZ
Oxfam has announced it will be moving its flagship fundraising event Oxfam Trailwalker to Taranaki, with the charity walk due to make its debut in the stunning region on March 20-21, 2021. Throwing their weight behind Oxfam Trailwalker 2021 are some well-known ... More >>
Boost To Aid Budget Welcome, Oxfam Says
Friday, 15 May 2020, 7:13 am | Oxfam NZ
Oxfam welcomes today’s budget announcement that boosted vital aid funding to help people living in poverty and hardship across the world, but says there is an urgent need for more support to deal with coronavirus. Oxfam New Zealand’s Advocacy and ... More >>
