Widely regarded as one of Australia’s toughest team endurance charity challenges, this week Queensland will host its first Oxfam Trailwalker event.
As the sun rises on Friday June 17, 1200 Australians will take on the extraordinary feat of walking or running a 100 km’s in less than 48 hours to raise vital funds for Oxfam Australia’s life-saving work around the world.
A new study for Oxfam reveals that developing countries are making more of an effort to cut their greenhouse gas emissions than developed countries. Oxfam estimates that over 60 per cent of emissions cuts by 2020 are likely to be made by developing countries.
Acclaimed chef, author and Oxfam Ambassador Kylie Kwong is encouraging all Australians to get behind Oxfam Australia’s new ‘Stop Hunger’ Appeal launched today.
A broken food system and environmental crises will result in millions more hungry people, Oxfam said today ahead of the June 1 launch of its international campaign, GROW, which highlights the need to urgently transform the way we grow and share food.
Multinational enterprises, including Australian companies, will be required to take greater responsibility to make sure their operations do not harm human rights, under the latest updated Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) guidelines.
Today 3things, an initiative of Oxfam Australia, launched its new look website (3things.org.au), an innovative online platform run by young people for young people to engage in social justice issues and find solutions.
In the city of Pune in western India more than 6000 families survive on rubbish. They live on the money earned by workers – most of whom are women – who collect, sort and sell waste to scrap traders. Exclusively from low-caste groups, often known as ”untouchables”, these waste pickers are vulnerable to extreme poverty, including disease and hunger.
Oxfam Australia today welcomed the start of the national dialogue to formally recognise the special and unique place Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples hold in our nation.
Retired High Court Judge and Monash alumnus, the Honourable Michael Kirby, is to launch a research and education collaboration between Monash University and Oxfam Australia that will deliver innovative solutions to issues facing people living in poverty.
The budget is a win, but other avenues need to be explored.