Oxfam Australia is calling on local restaurants to help tackle the devastating food crisis in the Horn of Africa by getting behind the international aid agency’s national fundraiser Shout the Horn on World Food Day in October.
Oxfam welcomes Just Group’s public announcement today banning the purchase of sandblasted jeans.
Lives must be put before politics in famine-affected Somalia, a group of 20 aid agencies said today in an open letter.
In a new report released today, Oxfam has exposed the increasing scale and speed of international “land grabs” – secretive land deals by foreign investors and governments – that often rob poor farmers in developing countries of their land and source of food.
While more than seven million people have been affected by the floods in Sindh since they began less than two months ago, Oxfam is urgently calling on the international donor community to speed up its response to give critical and life-saving relief to those in need.
Nearly three million people across Afghanistan are facing severe food shortages as a result of drought, international aid agency Oxfam warned today as it called on donor governments to act now before the crisis becomes a catastrophe.
As rains continue to lash the flood ravaged Sindh province in Pakistan, international aid agency Oxfam is warning of a severe risk of a public health crisis if clean water and sanitation is not urgently provided.
International aid agency Oxfam is mounting an emergency response to get aid to those affected by fresh flooding in Sindh province in Pakistan. This is the second year of flooding in Pakistan, and many of those affected had not fully recovered from last year’s mega-floods.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women of all ages and backgrounds from across the country will be at Parliament House in Canberra next week (18 – 23 September) for Oxfam’s third annual Straight Talk Summit.
Ahead of Just Jeans and Dotti’s runway show in Melbourne this Sunday, Oxfam Australia is calling on Just Group chief executive Mark McInnes to release the company’s full position on sandblasting and to commit to banning the dangerous practice.