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Support the Robin Hood Tax

On April 23, Treasurer Wayne Swan will attend the G20 Finance Minister Meeting in Washington where the Robin Hood Tax will be discussed – a tiny tax on bankers that could reduce global financial instability and give billions to tackle poverty and climate change, here and abroad. Tell Treasurer Swan you want Australia to support […]

Buy a fairtrade t-shirt

Fairtrade merchandise is now available online – including great t-shirts, and many free items including posters, stickers and more! Go Shopping

New report shows shocking pattern of rape in eastern Congo

An extensive study of rape victims in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) commissioned by Oxfam and conducted by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative shows that 60 percent of rape victims surveyed were gang raped by armed men and more than half of assaults took place in the supposed safety of the family home at night, often in the presence of the victim’s husband and children.

Have a Fairtrade Coffee Break

This Fairtrade Fortnight (1-16 May), raise awareness about fair trade by holding a Fairtrade coffee break in your workplace, school or club. Find out more

More Australians seek a Fair Trade Easter

More Australians are buying Fair Trade chocolate this Easter, according to international aid agency Oxfam Australia.

Sales of Fair Trade Easter chocolate through Oxfam’s shops across Australia are 64 per cent higher this year than last year, for the four weeks leading up to the Monday before Easter.

Rebuilding Haiti

The statues of Haiti’s heroes who led the slave revolt centuries ago are no longer visible. The square overlooking the now destroyed Presidential Palace has become a mass of makeshift shelters where families of earthquake victims try to put their lives together. The new shanty town which has sprung up obscures those national symbols of tumultuous change and great hope.

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