Oxfam responds to earthquake in Indonesia
An Oxfam Emergency Response Team is in place in Indonesia to provide assistance following a 7.0 magnitude earthquake which struck off the coast of Java yesterday.
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Give twice this Father’s Day with a Fair Trade present
International aid agency Oxfam is urging Australians to consider more than their own Dad this Father’s Day, with a Fair Trade gift.
Female factor gives winning edge in Oxfam Trailwalker
The addition of Beth Cardelli to the team of Dave Gallagher, Shaun Atchison and Noel Annett has proved a winning combination for the Berowra Bushrunners who are the first of the 500 teams to finish the 100km Oxfam Trailwalker Sydney.
100 days to go – countdown to a Copenhagen climate deal
Oxfam Global Ambassador and Hollywood actor Gael Garcia Bernal stars in a new online advertisement made by international aid agency Oxfam urging people to join the new "tck tck tck" climate change campaign.
Make waves beyond our island: climate change action
Learn about the power of online campaigning at special Oxfam events, A Climate for Change - Make Waves Beyond Our Island, on Monday 31 October in Hobart, and Thursday 3 September in Launceston.
Faulkner to be honoured at Australia’s toughest endurance charity challenge
Tomorrow 2000 people will attempt to walk the combined equivalent of five times around the world to raise around $3 million for international aid agency Oxfam Australia.
Two Thousand people to walk 100km to raise $3 million for charity
MEDIA ALERT: Oxfam TRAILWALKER Sydney, August 28 - 30
World Humanitarian Day – Humanitarian work not for the faint hearted
Today marks six years since the bombing of the UN office in Baghdad. The casualties from that blast included the top UN official in Iraq Sérgio Vieira de Mello and other UN staff working to help Iraqi civilians in the middle of war. The UN has designated today the inaugural World Humanitarian Day, to honour aid workers and the jobs they do in difficult and dangerous environments.
Government should upgrade climate change position after CPRS failure
The Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has been urged to upgrade Australia’s climate change policy, and take an emissions reduction target of 40% below 1990 levels by 2020 to negotiations in Copenhagen in December.
Pacific Islands Forum fails on climate change and trade
The failure of the Pacific Islands Forum to match Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s ambitious rhetoric with meaningful action on climate change will spell further disaster for the Pacific’s small island states already suffering the impacts of rising sea levels and more frequent cylones and storms, international aid agency Oxfam Australia said today.