Ultra-marathon runners break Oxfam Trailwalker record in Sydney
A team of ultra-runners have set a new Oxfam Trailwalker record in Sydney tonight, completing the 100km challenge in an incredible 11 hours and 22 minutes.
A team of ultra-runners have set a new Oxfam Trailwalker record in Sydney tonight, completing the 100km challenge in an incredible 11 hours and 22 minutes.
Oxfam Trailwalker will get underway this morning, with more than 2000 brave walkers setting off to tackle the 100km trail from Brooklyn on the Hawkesbury River to Mosman on Sydney Harbour.
Australians tucking into their Cornflakes each morning will now be making a difference daily by consuming a breakfast that has become part of the solution to tackle climate change.
Target’s disclosure today of the locations of its supplier factories in Bangladesh is a crucial step towards better conditions for workers, Oxfam Australia said.
Over 1.2 million people have been displaced as a result of fighting in Central and Northern Iraq and an estimated 1.5 million people are now in need of humanitarian assistance. Many have fled their homes and are in desperate need of food, shelter, medicine, water and sanitation.
Oxfam today welcomed a pledge of $1 million worth of funding from the Australian Government for an Oxfam supported program aimed at giving women more economic influence in the ASEAN arena.
Today, the people of South Sudan expected a political agreement that would deliver a transitional government to steer them out of conflict and bring an end to the violence that has engulfed the country for eight months. Instead, the leaders of South Sudan have failed to set aside their differences, and fighting continues to ravage […]
The failure to extend the ceasefire will cost more lives and further endanger innocent civilians who deserve much better from their political leadership, Oxfam said.
Despite a pause in the month-long bombardment, the people of Gaza are facing a critical public health crisis due to the destruction and contamination of Gaza’s water supply, worldwide development organization Oxfam warned today.
The crisis in Gaza is fast spiralling out of control with water supplies critically low and a public health crisis imminent, Oxfam warned today. The collapse of the latest brief ceasefire announcement means many more lives will be at risk.