Analysis: Reality is bleak for immigrant families
OXFAM is best known for fighting poverty overseas but we do it right here in Scotland too. We began working with Roma families in Govanhill more than five years ago because of the desperate situation many had found themselves...Read more...
Occupy G8: Peoples’ Summit Confronts World Leaders at Camp David, Urging Action on Poverty, Hunger
World leaders are convening at the heavily guarded Camp David in Maryland today for the G8 Summit. Leading nonprofits such as Save the Children and Oxfam are urging G8 leaders to live up to a 2009 pledge of $22 billion towards...Read more...
Obama promises private aid - or punts? - on fighting hunger in Africa
Africa. Here are some of the other news reports on the announcement from the Washington Post, CNN, NPR and The Guardian. As USA Today summarized: The Obama administration announced... In this article: Africa , Oxfam , G8 ,...Read more...
Senegal cattle dying, fields scorched amid drought
WODOBERE, Senegal AFP - In the northeastern nook of Senegal, one of the most stable and developed nations in the drought-hit Sahel region, carcasses of cattle lie in the sun, the fields have withered and food depleted.As scanty...Read more...
Margaret Flowers and Raymond Offenheiser: Occupy G8 -- Peoples’ Summit Confronts World Leaders at...
Occupy G8: Peoples’ Summit Confronts World Leaders at Camp David, Urging Action on Poverty, Hunger Democracy Now World leaders are convening at the heavily guarded Camp David in Maryland today for the G8 Summit. Leading...Read more...
Global leaders seek to corral Europe crisis
Originally published: May 18, 2012 12:08 AM By The Associated Press CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER (Associated Press), DAVID McHUGH (Associated Press) Photo credit: AP | Tourist pose for photographers with Oxfam activist wearing masks...Read more...
18 million at risk in the Sahel food crisis [infographic]
In the Sahel region of West Africa, families are facing a grim reality. A food crisis is now threatening more than 18 miillion people. Without help they won't get enough to eat. Drought, poor harvests, the lingering effects of...Read more...
Leaders to face Europe crises at G-8 summit
Oxfam activists wearing masks depicting G-8 world leaders participate in a demonstration outside the White House in Washington, Thursday, May 17. U.S. President Barack Obama will welcome G-8 leaders ...Read more...
Famine and Foreigners: Ethiopia since Live Aid
and eclectic grasp of the academic literature on the country. Through human stories, he retells the history of Ethiopia's famines (a less infamous famine in 1973 led to the ousting of... In this article: Ethiopia , Famine ,...Read more...
News Summary: G-8 seeks to corral Europe crisis
Tourist pose for photographers with Oxfam activist wearing masks depicting G8 world leaders during a demonstration outside the White House in Washington, Thursday, May 17, 2012. President Barack Obama will welcome G8 leaders to...Read more...
[Correspondence] Urgent need for WHO's reform to prioritise core functions
A catastrophic breakdown in regulatory functions in Pakistan has caused more than 120 deaths. The case highlights the need for urgent attention to WHO's core functions such as those supporting the safety of medicines. We...Read more...
Long-term future of World Health Organization at risk from financial crisis
Ahead of the 65th World Health Assembly (WHA), taking place in Geneva next week, International agency Oxfam has warned that the fundamental role of the World Health Organization (WHO) as the leading agency for global health is...Read more...
Living on a Spike
Authors: N Hossain; Oxfam Publisher: Oxfam, 2011 The human face of global food price rises is often missing amongst the abstract discussions of macro-economic trends and global food price indices. In order to understand the...Read more...
Africa Oxfam Announces Baaba Maal As Its New Global Ambassador
A Zimbabwean politician has asserted that women should be compelled to bathe less and shave off their hair to make them less attractive, which would help curb the spread of ... Record Your Vote Do you agree with U.S. President...Read more...
What's the Connection between Power, Development and Social Media?
also increase the accountability of northern NGOs and campaigns to those in the South - e.g. the great work by Al Jazeera on the Kony2012 video. All well and good, but IT is emphatically... In this article: Twitter , Berlin ,...Read more...
Aussie takes flight to the Conchord
A trans-Tasman flight, expenses and $1660 may seem an excessive cost for a cup of coffee, but one Flight of the Conchords fan will spend that much to meet one half of the folk-comedy duo Bret McKenzie. Sydney ...Read more...
African Union to press Sudan, South Sudan on peace talks
By ROBYN DIXON | Los Angeles Times JOHANNESBURG — African Union mediator Thabo Mbeki flew to Khartoum on Thursday after Sudan and South Sudan missed a U.N. Security Council deadline to resume peace talks. Mbeki, the former...Read more...
Oxfam activist wearing masks depicting G8 world leaders participate in a demonstration outside the W
Photo by AP Oxfam activist wearing masks depicting G8 world leaders participate in a demonstration outside the White House in Washington, Thursday, May 17, 2012. President Barack Obama will welcome G8 leaders to his...Read more...
Afghan security forces need urgent reforms
Twenty leading international and Afghan organizations called on NATO and the Afghan government to agree to commitments to ensure Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) are able to protect civilians and are held accountable if...Read more...
Shining a light on food workers
Ironically, those who work in the food system are often the most food insecure, and farmworkers in particular are vulnerable because they are excluded from many of the protections that cover other workers under US law.Read more...
Vice-presidential candidates
Sherezada (Chiqui) Vicioso, a sociologist, writer and social activist, decided to share with politics her time as a poet and writer in order to be the running mate on the ballot with Guillermo Moreno for Alianza Pais (Alpais)....Read more...
Charities and online donations
How can charities maximise online donations? With the voluntary sector on course to lose £3.3bn a year in government funding by 2015, according to the National Council for Voluntary Organisations, charities have no choice but...Read more...
Poverty - How the Other Half Live
iMaverick] Loan sharks and micro-finance offices have mushroomed in South Africa's inner-city centres. The lure is attractive - borrow R10,000 and create your dream life by growing your business. But in a country where half the...Read more...
Good luck with that
pic via Oxfam Italia at flickr.com When reality meets better policy and better politics… Barack Obama is to press German chancellor Angela Merkel to support a growth package to help bail out Europe at the G8 summit this weekend...Read more...
Speaking up for children in detention
By Steph Cousins, Humanitarian Advocacy Lead at Oxfam Australia A global campaign to end the immigration detention of children was recently launched by the International Detention Coalition — an amazing organisation that Oxfam...Read more...
Oxfam sues over oil, mining payments to governments
Oxfam sues over oil, mining payments to governments Busi Ndlovu, a member of the aid group Oxfam, stages a protest. Image by: Reuters Oxfam America is suing the US Securities and Exchange Commission to try to get the SEC to...Read more...
Disaster-resilient school communities urged
Islamabad Considering the vulnerability of children and the role schools can play in case of any natural or human induced disaster, the speakers of a seminar have stressed for creating disaster-resilient school communities that...Read more...
Afghan Security Forces need urgent reforms, say agencies
In Chicago, NATO must agree to commitments to ensure all Afghan forces can uphold law and order for Afghan men and women and children. Twenty leading international and Afghan NGOs today called on NATO and the Afghan government...Read more...
National Volunteer Week: in full swing
You’ve heard what our volunteers think about volunteering at Oxfam ; now some of Oxfam’s key people pay tribute to our volunteers! Andrew Hewett, Executive Director Oxfam wouldn’t be Oxfam without volunteers … volunteers are...Read more...
Minister calls for support for tough new arms trade treaty
Alan Duncan says arms trade 'has become the greatest threat to development, beyond disease and disaster' The international arms trade has become the greatest threat to development and has to be controlled by a tough treaty to...Read more...