No one likes to think of themselves as a fair-weather friend. Being flaky in a crisis is not, after all, an attractive quality.
But much as they might try to hide it when they meet in Canada this week, the world’s richest nations are proving themselves to be just that to the world’s poorest people: unreliable at a time when they are reeling from the economic crisis, climate change and food shortages.
The G20 is meeting this weekend at a crucial moment. Weighing on the minds of G20 leaders will be the European sovereign debt crisis, the continuing depth of the US recession and the lack of public financing following gigantic bail-outs to prop up the global finance sector.
International aid agency Oxfam Australia today called on Canberra’s politicians to step out of their offices and cross Lake Burley Griffin to experience life as a refugee in a mock refugee camp.
The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health, Mr Anand Grover, has raised concerns that efforts to close the gap in Indigenous health are still not supported by a comprehensive national Indigenous health plan.
A global tax on the world’s big banks to help poor countries survive the economic crisis must be urgently agreed, Oxfam said today ahead of the G20 meeting of Finance Ministers in South Korea.
Behind the official statistics, farmers, manufacturing workers, migrant workers, waste-pickers, and women working unpaid in the home all over the world are asking the same question: ‘What hit us in 2009?’. Oxfam’s research on the global economic crisis in 12 countries, involving some 2,500 individuals, is combined in this report with the findings of studies […]
Gaza, 2 June 2010 – Oxfam condemns Monday’s attack on the aid flotilla that resulted in the killing of a number of passengers and it links the tragedy to the failure of Israel and the international community to lift the three year blockade on the Gaza Strip.
Acclaimed chef, author and Oxfam Ambassador Kylie Kwong is challenging Australians to imagine life cooking recipes with only one vegetable, as part of her support of the international aid agency’s new ‘Stop Hunger’ Appeal.
Australia can advance the Copenhagen Accord and help re-build trust in the international process to fight climate change by committing climate finance to help poor countries deal with climate change at the UN climate negotiations which start in Bonn today (31 May), says Oxfam.
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott must come clean on whether he is proposing to cut spending to Australia’s aid program, Oxfam Australia said today.