OceanaGold under renewed scrutiny for human rights abuses at its Didipio operation
Oxfam Australia welcomes the annoucement by the Human Rights Commission in the Philippines that they will investigate Australian mining company OceanaGold.
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UN under more pressure as G8 leaders fail to rise to the challenge of a world in crisis
Oxfam’s response to the committements made by leaders of the G8 countries at the conclusion of the summit in Japan on 9 July 2008.
Climate: short-term reduction targets and adaptation funding are keys to G8 success, says Oxfam
The G8 leaders need to immediately agree short-term targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 or tip the balance irreversibly towards dangerous climate change.
Rudd must apply blowtorch on food prices as well as fuel prices at G8
As millions of people across this region struggle to find enough food to eat each day, Kevin Rudd must use his influence as a regional leader to ensure G8 places the world’s food crisis at the top of its agenda this week.
Climate Change and our neighbours: risk and responsibility
Australia faces geo-political and economic risk if it does not help its developing neighbour-countries to cope with climate change.
The stark analysis of the regional risk to Australia comes in today’s draft report from Professor Ross Garnaut, which says if the impact of climate change on the poorer countries in our region is not mitigated, ‘the problems of our neighbours would inevitably become our problems’.
Link must be made between climate change and poverty
The Rudd Government’s response to the Garnaut draft report this Friday must tackle the injustice at the heart of climate change ‘ that poor people in developing countries, who are the most affected, are least responsible for causing climate change.
Biofuels deepen poverty and accelerate climate change: Oxfam report
The biofuel policies of developed countries like the US and the EU have dragged more than 30 million extra people into poverty according to a report released today by international aid agency Oxfam.
Parliament sends message to businesses on human rights
The Rudd Government’s decision to support a vote today in parliament to look at developing measures that prevent the involvement or complicity of an Australian company in the abuse of human rights is a good step forward, Oxfam Australia said today.
Ministerial intervention “playing God with sanctuary”: new report
A dangerous gap exists in Australia’s refugee system that means people threatened with torture and gross human rights violations are being sent back to their country of origin after years in detention centres because they do not fit the technical definition of a "refugee", according to a joint report by refugee policy group A Just Australia (AJA) and Oxfam released today.
Where Business and Human Rights intersect.
Many Australian corporations are doing great work overseas. They are investing in developing countries, providing job opportunities to local people and working closely with local community organisations.
Some Australian companies, however, are also ignoring people’s most basic human rights.