While mining has undoubtedly been kind to at least one woman, Gina Rinehart, the sector has an appalling – and often hidden – track record for hundreds of thousands of women in poor countries around the world.
The vast majority of Australian mining, oil and gas companies have no clear public commitment to gain the consent of Indigenous peoples before commencing projects on their land, according to a new report.
Oxfam Australia has welcomed the Federal Budget allocation of $777 million over three years to renew the national partnership agreement for closing the gap in Indigenous health outcomes, but calls on state and territory governments to follow suit.
International aid agency Oxfam Australia says Prime Minister Julia Gillard has failed an important test in keeping her promise to increase support to the world’s poor.
Tomorrow’s federal budget was the first time her commitment to increase overseas aid levels to only 50 cents in $100 of national income would have been seen in the budget papers.
Oxfam Australia is urging the Australian Government to honour its commitment to grow the overseas aid program in next Tuesday’s Federal Budget.
Oxfam Australia is urging some of Australia’s biggest retailers to immediately release the locations of their factories in Bangladesh, as the death toll from last week’s collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Dhaka climbs to more than 400.
Urgent Security Council action on Syria is desperately needed as suffering in the war-torn country increases by the day, international aid agency Oxfam warned today.
Oxfam Australia is challenging Australians to take up six practical actions to help ensure that everybody has enough food always, as part of the GROW Challenges initiative launched today.
The world’s biggest chocolate maker, Mondelez International, has committed to address the inequality facing women cocoa farmers and workers, following pressure from consumers as part of the international aid agency Oxfam’s Behind the Brands campaign.
The Close the Gap Campaign has welcomed the Federal and Victorian Government announcements that they will continue to fund critical Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health programs.