Five of Australia’s largest International Humanitarian Organisations have joined forces on International Human Rights Day to appeal for government and public action on the most basic of human needs - food.
Australian singer-songwriter Missy Higgins joins artists and actors from around the world supporting Oxfam and urging leaders to step up their climate change commitments at the UN climate negotiations in Poznan, Poland.
OceanaGold’s announcement today that it has placed the Didipio Gold and Copper mine in the Northern Philippines on a ‘care and maintenance’ basis is welcome news for the Didipio community.
As the financial crisis deepens a new report released today recommends alternative ways to fund measures to help developing countries adapt to the new reality of climate change without increasing government taxes on tax-payers.
The Close The Gap coalition has congratulated the Council of Australian Governments on taking substantial steps towards making health equality for Indigenous Australians a reality.
Australia must do our fair share in addressing climate change to avoid lagging behind other countries, according to international aid agency Oxfam.
The Australian Government should use World Aids Day to provide more money address the HIV/AIDS crisis in Africa, the region most affected by the virus, according to international aid agency Oxfam.
In a groundbreaking event to be held in Canberra next February, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women will work side by side with women of all political colours to achieve change together.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd must use his position as a regional leader to make sure this week’s G20 meeting doesn’t leave the world’s poor paying the highest price for the current financial crisis, according to international aid agency Oxfam.
Women throughout the world are bearing a bigger burden from climate change than men, an audience at an Oxfam Australia and Make Poverty History film launch will be told today.