The crisis in Gaza is fast spiralling out of control with water supplies critically low and a public health crisis imminent, Oxfam warned today. The collapse of the latest brief ceasefire announcement means many more lives will be at risk.
Australians can learn about how one of our Pacific neighbours is meeting the challenge of climate change at public events around the country from next week. Oxfam and CARE International are hosting a national speaking tour with Shirley Laban and Mala Silas, two women at the frontline of efforts to tackle climate change in Vanuatu. […]
Oxfam Australia welcomed today’s commitment from General Mills to implement industry-leading measures to cut greenhouse gas emissions from its supply chains and press for political action to address climate change.
More than 120,000 people who have fled their homes in Gaza due to violence face a precarious future, with the exit through Israel barred under the long-term blockade, and a closed border with Egypt preventing escape, international aid agency Oxfam said today.
Women won’t be paid as much as men for another 75 years, Oxfam Australia said today in a new report that urges G20 leaders meeting in Australia later this year to tackle gender inequality. The G20 and gender equality – How the G20 can advance women’s rights in employment, social protection and fiscal policies, shows […]
Oxfam has condemned ANZ’s cutting of ties to the Cambodian sugar company implicated in the use of child labour and causing food shortages after forcing hundreds of families off their land. ANZ – without warning to the affected communities or the NGOs that support them – has severed its ties with Phnom Penh Sugar after […]
The Commonwealth Bank is again busily defending its damaged reputation only months after it was revealed it had been backing companies involved in grabbing land from poor communities in Brazil, Oxfam Australia said today. The business practices and transparency of Commonwealth Bank are under question following the fallout from the bank’s slow response to a financial […]
Oxfam has been forced to cut essential assistance to over 6,500 vulnerable Syrian refugee families living in Jordan and warns that millions more face an uncertain future with aid agencies unable to adequately respond due to government donor fatigue. Speaking ahead of the UN’s launch of its reviewed aid appeal for the Syria crisis, Oxfam’s […]
Oxfam has sent a team of regional experts to Iraq to set up an aid programme to help thousands of people forced to flee their homes due to the violence rocking the country.
Australia’s aid program must be squarely focused on helping the world’s poorest people lift themselves out of poverty, Oxfam Australia said today. Oxfam Chief Executive Helen Szoke acknowledged Foreign Minister Julie Bishop’s commitment to lead an innovative and effective aid program, outlined in her address to the National Press Club today, but urged the Government […]