Note to Editors – this year, Fair Trade Fortnight will take place from May 7-22.
Fair Trade Fortnight celebrates and promotes fair trade: paying a fair price to producers in developing countries and helping to lift them and their communities out of poverty.
Treasurer Wayne Swan has an opportunity to help stop the price of basic foods surging further out of the reach of the world’s poor who are also still reeling from the Global Financial Crisis, Oxfam Australia said ahead of the G20 Finance Ministers’ Meeting that starts in Paris today.
International agency Oxfam today said that the disaster in Sri Lanka was deepening as a result of a second wave of flooding in the country. One million people in Sri Lanka have already been affected by the first wave of flooding.
Relief agency calls on donor governments to allocate life-saving aid based on need not on short-term military gains
Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s announcement that she will work with the National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples was welcomed by the Close the Gap Campaign today.
International development agency Oxfam Australia is bitterly disappointed that the Coalition has put forward a proposal to defer development assistance to Indonesia.
Oxfam Australia Executive Director Andrew Hewett says, “This is a short sighted announcement.
International development agency Oxfam Australia has urged the Coalition to drop its reported proposal to cut $373m in overseas aid to Africa.
The crisis in Pakistan is far from over and could get worse, international aid agency Oxfam warned today, six months on from the nation’s devastating floods.
Somalia is suffering its worst drought in years and failed rains are already devastating half a million lives, international aid agency Oxfam warned today.
The scale of the humanitarian challenge is only just becoming clear as many people start returning to their homes in flood-hit Sri Lanka, international aid agency Oxfam said today.
The flood crisis, caused by relentless monsoon rains in early January, is the worst natural disaster to hit the country since the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.