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Banks may not be meeting their obligations to respect human rights and could be increasing the hardships faced by some of the world’s poorest, according to Oxfam Australia.

The Close the Gap coalition today welcomed Victorian Premier John Brumby’s public commitment to end Aboriginal health inequality in Victoria.

International aid agency Oxfam has produced a blueprint for Australia’s new engagement with Pacific nations, as Prime Minister Kevin Rudd heads to Niue this week for the Pacific Islands Forum.

Oxfam Australia welcomes the Government’s announcement today of a pilot seasonal scheme for Pacific workers.

Oxfam today welcomed the decision by the Australian Competition Consumer Commission to reject, for a second time, the tired and purposely misleading claims made by the Institute of Public Affairs that Fair Trade is not helping poor people.

The breakdown in trade talks in Geneva would leave the world’s poorest people increasingly vulnerable at a time already plagued with great uncertainty around food and fuel prices, international aid agency Oxfam said today.

The Close the Gap coalition today presented the federal government and Opposition with a set of National Indigenous Health Equality Targets to address the 17-year life expectancy gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.

The Government has missed a key opportunity to assist our developing country neighbours to cope with the impacts of climate change, Make Poverty History said today.

An Australian immigration program with a quota for “climate change refugees” is amongst recommendations in a Make Poverty History report, being launched today.

Oxfam Australia welcomes the annoucement by the Human Rights Commission in the Philippines that they will investigate Australian mining company OceanaGold.