Tens of thousands of Sudanese refugees face desperate, life-threatening water shortages and a growing threat of fatal disease in Jamam camp in South Sudan and must be urgently moved to a new site, international agency Oxfam said today.
This budget will test the strength of Australia’s convictions – and commitment – to help the world’s poorest.
The upcoming budget will test the strength of Australia’s convictions to help improve the lives of the world’s poor, many of who live in nearby countries.
In the first weeks after the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, I remember meeting a young man called Anthony in a village called Manakudy, on the southern tip of Tamil Nadu in India. He was about 17 years old, and had lost both his father and sister to the deadly waves.
Despite being one of the wealthiest countries in the world, Australia was last night ranked 13th in aid by the OECD, highlighting the need for Julia Gillard to keep her promise to increase the amount of Australian aid given to poor people around the world.
To hundreds of thousands of workers manufacturing denim, the term “killer jeans” has quite a different meaning than a great-fitting pair of pants.
Growing conflict in Mali and northern Nigeria is disrupting the supply of food to communities suffering from a major food crisis affecting 13 million people in West Africa, international aid agency Oxfam said today.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women of all ages and backgrounds from across the state will converge in Perth this week to learn how to change their communities for the better at Oxfam’s inaugural Straight Talk Regional Gathering in WA.
The Close the Gap campaign has welcomed the Senate’s re-commitment today to closing the gap on Indigenous health inequality.
The members of rock band Eskimo Joe have announced today that they will be official ambassadors of the Close the Gap campaign that aims to close the Indigenous life expectancy gap by 2030.