Oxfam Australia today urged Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to show world leaders the way and commit the nation to a global fund to provide the world’s poor with the resources necessary to adapt to the worst impacts of climate change as well as ratify the Kyoto Protocol at this week’s UN Bali Climate Change Conference.
Today, on World Aids Day, Oxfam Global Ambassador Annie Lennox is launching SING, a new charity single calling on women to ‘sing out’ around the issues of HIV and AIDS.
Oxfam releases a report on the increase in natural disaasters caused by climate change.
Oxfam Australia aid worker Rebecca Vince (VIC) arrived in Port Moresby today to assist with the humanitarian relief effort following last week’s cyclone that left up to 145,000 people without adequate access to shelter, food and water as well as medicine.
Oxfam Australia committs $100 000 to relief efforts in the wake of Cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh.
For the first time in many years, overseas aid has been elevated to the spotlight during an election campaign, highlighting Australia’s potential to play a pivotal role in transforming our region and saving hundreds of thousands of lives.
A combined agency report on the imapct that climate change is having and will have in the Asia-Pacific region.
Corinne Grant launches Oxfam Unwrapped with a ‘live’ stall at the Victoria Market
Albert Clarke, a 73-year old endurance athlete, does not fit the stereotype. He is, after all, an Indigenous person and he is older than what an average Indigenous Australian is expected to reach in age.
Oxfam continues calls for Australian mining companies in the Phillipines to be investigated after allegations that they are causing fishkill on the island where the companies operate.