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Video: Oxfam highlights poor access to water across Pacific
Thursday, 1 March 2012, 1:28 pm | Oxfam NZ
In a show of solidarity with people across the Pacific, many of whom lack the basics taken for granted by Kiwis, Oxfam New Zealand’s Executive Director Barry Coates was joined by staff and supporters to carry heavy loads of water, vegetables and ... More >>
Oxfam Video from Papua New Guinea
Thursday, 16 February 2012, 2:58 pm | Oxfam NZ
The video has been made to launch the Oxfam Water Appeal, which aims to bring water, sanitation and hygiene to communities across the Pacific and Southeast Asia. You can find more information about the appeal here: http://www.oxfam.org.nz/donate-online/latest-appeals/safe-water-for-life-appeal More >>
International Humanitarian System Must Go Local To Cope
Wednesday, 8 February 2012, 3:31 pm | Oxfam NZ
The international humanitarian response system will fail to cope with the expected rise in the number of people exposed to crises unless more resources and trained people are located closer to disaster-prone areas and there is more investment in ... More >>
Durban Platform Leaves World Sleepwalking Toward Warming
Tuesday, 13 December 2011, 10:13 am | Oxfam NZ
Negotiators at the UN climate talks have narrowly avoided a collapse, agreeing to the bare minimum deal possible. The plan gets the Green Climate Fund up and running without any sources of funding, preserves a narrow pathway to avoid 4 degrees of ... More >>
Pacific Leaders Must Do More to Promote Gender Equity
Monday, 12 December 2011, 3:19 pm | Oxfam NZ
The Pacific region continues to hold some of the highest figures of violence against women and some of the lowest figures for female political representation, said New Zealand group Women’s Rights and Advocacy in the Pacific (WRAP). More >>
Video: Oxfam climate change election debate
Tuesday, 8 November 2011, 2:26 pm | Oxfam NZ
Candidates from the National, Labour and Green Parties spoke to an audience in Auckland last week, outlining their parties’ plans to meet the challenge of climate change. The debate ranged from whether New Zealand can become carbon-free to the likelihood ... More >>
Oxfam Warns New Somalia Fighting Risks Increasing Famine
Friday, 21 October 2011, 3:36 pm | Oxfam NZ
The new escalation in fighting and insecurity along the Kenya-Somalia border risks increasing the suffering for civilians already devastated by drought and conflict, international agency Oxfam said today, three months since famine was announced in ... More >>
Delivering Aid Doesn't Get Much More Difficult Than This
Friday, 7 October 2011, 10:08 am | Oxfam NZ
Oxfam NZ's Barry Coates, is in the Horn of Africa. He writes: A couple of people asked me how Oxfam was able to get help through to people in war-torn Somalia, one of the most difficult areas of the world to work in. That's a question I asked Oxfam ... More >>
Oxfam ED Barry Coates in Horn of Africa
Thursday, 6 October 2011, 3:12 pm | Oxfam NZ
Looking out from my room in Nairobi, it is hard to believe that only a few hundred kilometres to the north, there are over four hundred thousand people crowded into a refugee camp, having fled from the 21st Century’s first major famine. We go to ... More >>
World Must Not Abandon Women In A Quick Fix Deal For Peace
Monday, 3 October 2011, 3:29 pm | Oxfam NZ
The improvements for Afghan women’s rights gained over the last decade are at risk of slipping away and could be lost in a quick fix bargain for peace, the international aid agency Oxfam warned today. The protection of women’s rights in Afghanistan ... More >>
Oxfam Urges Pacific Leaders Achieve Arms Trade Treaty
Friday, 16 September 2011, 3:15 pm | Oxfam NZ
Oxfam welcomes the strong commitment to regional cooperation in negotiating an international Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) made at the Pacific Islands Forum held in Auckland last week. Pacific governments should follow through on these commitments by actively working ... More >>
Oxfam Urges Pacific Leaders To Achieve Strong Arms Treaty
Friday, 16 September 2011, 10:27 am | Oxfam NZ
Oxfam welcomes the strong commitment to regional cooperation in negotiating an international Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) made at the Pacific Islands Forum held in Auckland last week. Pacific governments should follow through on these commitments by actively working ... More >>
Tackling the Pacific
Thursday, 8 September 2011, 3:15 pm | Oxfam NZ
It’s been a long time coming and it’s about to happen – the world is coming to New Zealand. Rugby World Cup? Yes, but there is another event with even more importance to the lives of the Pacific’s people. This week Auckland is hosting the Pacific ... More >>
NZ Should Support Barroso Push For Financial Transact Tax
Thursday, 8 September 2011, 2:28 pm | Oxfam NZ
This week’s Pacific Islands Forum has attracted a bevy of diplomatic heavyweights, including European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso. The EC president’s visit to New Zealand and the Pacific Forum meetings includes garnering support for ... More >>
Climate Change in the Pacific - Oxfam Event
Tuesday, 6 September 2011, 4:46 pm | Oxfam NZ
Oxfam event in Auckland Tomorrow 7 September 2011 More >>
Oxfam Creates Space for Civil Society at the Pacific Islands Forum
Thursday, 1 September 2011, 5:22 pm | Oxfam NZ
WHAT: Photo (and audio) opportunities The Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) is being held in Auckland September 3-9. Oxfam has joined with Pacific allies to create a series of events around the time of the PIF meetings. Seminars and discussions will address ... More >>
Horn of Africa: Aid Effort Fails to Keep Pace
Friday, 5 August 2011, 11:56 am | Oxfam NZ
International agency Oxfam says governments and donors must act with greater urgency in the face of a deteriorating crisis and rising needs in East Africa. Donors must move beyond promises and immediately turn money pledged into action on the ground, ... More >>
Oxfam Welcomes Expected United Nations Declaration of Famine
Wednesday, 20 July 2011, 2:00 pm | Oxfam NZ
Oxfam welcomes news that the United Nations plans to declare famine in parts of Somalia, in the Horn of Africa, reflecting the worsening food crisis and the risk of loss of life on a massive scale. There is an estimated $800 million global shortfall in ... More >>
Developing Countries Pledge Larger Climate Emissions Cuts
Friday, 10 June 2011, 4:49 pm | Oxfam NZ
A new study for Oxfam reveals that developing countries are pledging to cut their emissions of greenhouse gases by more than developed countries. Oxfam estimates that over 60 per cent of emissions cuts by 2020 are likely to be made by developing countries. More >>
