A report released today by international aid agency Oxfam shows that cyanide-laden spillages from a mine financed by ANZ in the Philippines has devastated communities dependent on fishing for their livelihoods.
Food insecurity in the East Asia and Pacific Region is fast becoming a chronic problem, with a report released today showing that people in parts of East Timor are now facing up to five months a year without enough food to eat, according to international aid agency Oxfam.
International aid agency Oxfam is calling on both Federal and State Governments to take ‘critical and urgent action’ so that further lives are not lost in the township of Narrogin, Western Australia.
The World Bank and the IMF must cushion developing countries from the financial crisis that is threatening to hit them hard, while also tackling the challenges of food and fuel price increases, international agency Oxfam said today.
Together with the rest of Australia, Oxfam keenly anticipated the outcome of Professor Ross Garnaut’s final report on climate change 30 September. While Oxfam welcomed Professor Garnaut’s openness to a stronger target of 25 per cent by 2020 dependent on a global solution, we believe it is essential that Australia show leadership and set much firmer targets, encouraging other developed countries to do the same.
The Close the Gap coalition will today remind Federal and State government leaders meeting in Perth to match their rhetoric with actions to close the 17-year life expectancy gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians within a generation.
International aid agency Oxfam is inviting Australians to create their own piece of art that tells a story about the effect climate change is having on the developing world.
As the Rudd Government vies for a spot on the UN Security Council in 2013, the protection of civilians throughout the world from conflict and mass atrocity crimes should be at the heart of Australia’s foreign policy, according to Oxfam Australia.
As world leaders meet in New York at a special summit on poverty - the High-Level Event on the Millennium Development Goals – aid agency Oxfam has slammed the lack of urgency by the international community in tackling the ongoing food crisis now affecting close to one billion people.
Kevin Rudd’s attendance at Thursday’s UN meeting on aid and development in New York is vital to help ensure that the needs of poor people in our region - struggling with the crippling impacts of rising food and fuel prices and climate change - are well represented at the international forum.