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?
Australia must distance itself and refuse to be a part of attempts by the US, Japan, Canada and the EU to drive down ambition in international climate negotiations in Barcelona this week or risk helping to undermine a global climate agreement, Oxfam Australia said today.
Right now a staggering one billion people are living without clean water.
Oxfam Australia is hosting a gathering for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth in Melbourne next week to help develop and inspire the next generation of community leaders, advocates and decision makers.
Trade officials and Ministers have been meeting this week in Brisbane to hammer out a new trade agreement between the Pacific Island Countries, and Australia and New Zealand – PACER-Plus.
As the Ethiopian government issues an emergency appeal for food aid, international aid agency Oxfam is calling for a radical shake up in the way the world deals with food crises in Ethiopia and other countries.
As the Ethiopian government issues an emergency appeal for food aid, international aid agency Oxfam is calling for a radical shake up in the way the world deals with food crises in Ethiopia and other countries.
In its Band Aids and Beyond report released today to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the worst famine in Ethiopia’s history, Oxfam said there has been a “knee-jerk reaction” to addressing food crises dominated by sending food aid which fails to offer long-term solutions to hunger.
As the international community marks World Food Day, a food crisis is looming in flood affected communities in Cambodia, international aid agency Oxfam warns.
Oxfam Australia estimates that 100,000 people are affected by the floods following Typhoon Ketsana and 15,000 households are in need of immediate food assistance.
There is enough food grown in the world for everyone. And yet we remain stuck in a food crisis.