Seventy per cent of Afghans surveyed see poverty and unemployment as the major cause of the conflict in their country, according to new research by international aid agency Oxfam and a group of Afghan organisations.
Members of the public are being challenged to test their climate change knowledge with a new online game launched by Oxfam today at www.theclimatechallenge.org.
Monday’s UN World Food Summit in Rome (16-18th) could be a waste of time and money unless world leaders intervene now to salvage it. International agencies ActionAid and Oxfam say governments are at risk of throwing away a great chance to stop more than one billion people going hungry.
People from Australia and around the world will testify to the devastating impacts that climate change is already having on their lives at Australia’s first Climate Hearing, on Monday 23 November at the State Library in Melbourne at 6pm.
People from Australia and around the world will testify to the devastating impacts that climate change is already having on their lives at Australia’s first Climate Hearing, on Monday 23 November at the State Library in Melbourne at 6pm. Even if you’re not in Melbourne, you can still get involved. Find out more.
Oxfam Australia needs teams of three to race around the streets of Melbourne to raise money for its humanitarian aid and development work around the world.
Hundreds of thousands of poor people will continue to pay with their lives if rich countries continue their delay tactics on reaching a global climate deal in Copenhagen, Oxfam Australia said today.
Buying your Christmas tree from Oxfam this year means you can celebrate the festive season and also help communities around the world overcome poverty and injustice.
The new Afghan government must urgently devote greater resources to building up to 6,000 new schools, training upwards of 5,000 new midwives and professionalising the police force, according to aid agencies working throughout Afghanistan.
If you’re in Melbourne, why not buy one of our freshly cut, specially grown pine Christmas trees this year?