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Actor and comedian Peter Rowsthorn is encouraging Australians to make some extra room under their Christmas tree for a goat this year.

International Volunteer Day (5 December 2009) is the perfect opportunity to celebrate our Oxfam volunteers – the backbone of our organisation. Want to be a part of something bigger? Find out how.

International aid agency Oxfam has sent staff and emergency supplies to East Sepik province in Papua New Guinea, to help respond to a cholera outbreak that has so far reportedly killed six people and affected another 250.

The climate change declaration made by world leaders at this weekend’s Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) showed there is still room for a legally binding agreement to be reached at the Copenhagen meeting in December, international aid agency Oxfam said today.

While 15 – 29 year-olds are often branded as the apathetic Generation Y, Oxfam Australia has seen the number of young people buying charitable gifts double since it started its Oxfam Unwrapped program in 2005.

Test how much you know about the future of our planet by playing the new interactive quiz – The Climate Challenge. Play it now.

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.