As Australia’s aid program continues to grow – in line with the bi-partisan commitment for aid funding to reach half a per cent of our national income by 2015 – it will become even more important to make sure we are using this money effectively.
International aid agency Oxfam Australia today urged the Multi-Party Climate Change Committee to consider directing a portion of funds raised from a price on carbon and then an emissions trading scheme toward helping poor people in developing countries adapt to the devastating impacts of climate change.
With 2.4 million Afghan girls enrolled in school, compared to just 5,000 in 2001, progress in girls’ education is one of the rare Afghan success stories of the last nine years. This vital progress is now under threat 16 aid agencies including Oxfam and CARE warned today in a new report.
Our hearts are with the people of Christchurch, New Zeland who have been affected by the earthquake. Oxfam is ready to help but at this stage we urge donations to the NZ Red Cross. Read more
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.