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.
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.
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.
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.
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’.
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.