Call for poverty czar as study reveals 340,000 low-income households
Income: Couples said to require £685 a week. A campaign group has reiterated its call for a poverty czar after a study recorded a rise in those living on low incomes. Oxfam Scotland made the appeal after the Joseph Rowntree...Read more...
How to end foreign aid and avoid a punch-up
An edited version of this piece appeared on the Guardian’s Comment is Free site on Saturday The spat between South Africa and Britain over ending its (very small) aid programme has sparked another round of debate about whether...Read more...
K-Mart, Target, tell us where your Bangladeshi factories are
Oxfam Australia is urging some of Australia’s biggest retailers to immediately release the locations of their factories in Bangladesh, as the death toll from last week’s collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Dhaka climbs to...Read more...
Charities criticise S Africa aid cut
Oxfam said UK aid pays for life-saving medicines Continue reading the main story Related Stories Where does the UK's aid money go? Watch UK to end financial aid to India South Africa profile Charities have criticised the UK...Read more...
Don’t Palm Us Off: the campaign to make palm oil a not-so-secret ingredient
There’s an ingredient you might not be aware of in your chips, chocolate or shampoo: it’s palm oil, and it can be found in up to half of all packaged food and hygiene products on our supermarket shelves. Palm oil is in...Read more...
New chief executive of Oxfam hails success of link-up with Nectar that means you can earn points...
Mark Goldring, who joined Oxfam last month from Mencap, is delighted with the initiative and readily admits Oxfam is competing with other charities just as most commercial enterprises compete with each other.Read more...
Let the GROW Challenges begin!
Oxfam Australia has launched six months of sustainable and fair eating challenges to help ensure that everybody has enough food always. How? By taking up actions such as eating seasonal, organic, and sustainable foods;...Read more...
Dame Barbara Stocking: president of an all-woman college says token women are a disaster
Forget all that “Lean In” stuff from Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg to maximise your potential; don’t bother trying to crack the so-called glass ceiling because it doesn’t work. Do what Dame Barbara Stocking, the former chief...Read more...
World’s biggest chocolate companies melt under consumer pressure
More sweet news today for chocolate lovers: the biggest chocolate maker in the world, Mondelez International who owns brands like Cadbury, Toblerone and Oreo, has agreed to take steps to address inequality facing women in their...Read more...
Improving transboundary water governance in the Mekong
Oxfam Roundtable: Mekong Water and Resource Governance Oxfam Australia is convening a two day Roundtable with representatives from government, academia, research institutions, private sector and civil society from Australia and...Read more...
Syria The baby being born in a camp of 100000 refugees
By Mark Goldring, Oxfam CEO on the Syria-Jordan border Leka'a Al Zoubi is 23 years old, pregnant... and fears she has only a few months to live.She is one of 100,000 refugees from war-ravaged Syria enduring horrific conditions...Read more...
6 reasons why Twitter is a teacher’s BFF
Twitter. It was the last thing I wanted to spend my time on. I already used Facebook so why would I need another social media platform to eat up my spare time and contribute to my procrastination regime? If you are an educator...Read more...
How your campaigning is helping end land grabs
With your help, Oxfam has been campaigning since September on land grabs, as part of our GROW campaign to for food justice. We wanted the World Bank to take some urgently needed action to help end land grabs in many developing...Read more...
Oxfam slam Cameron’s u-turn on 0.7% UK aid pledge
David Cameron is planning to u-turn on his pledge to enshrine foreign aid spending in law, to pacify the right wing of his party. If the u-turn goes ahead it will come as a major embarrassment to the ‘modernising’ wing of the...Read more...
Charity that became a big business with a credit card
Oxfam is Britain’s best-known charity, but after more than 60 years’ work it has grown into something very like a corporation, with partnerships with leading blue-chip companies including Marks & Spencer.Read more...
How to end foreign aid and not alienate people | Duncan Green
The issue is not whether aid partnerships sometimes have to end, but how. Britain hasn't done a great job with South Africa The spat between South Africa and Britain over ending its (very small) aid programme has sparked...Read more...
Somalia famine in 2010-12 ‘worst in past 25 years’
Nearly 260,000 people died in parts of Somalia between October 2010 and April 2012, including 133,000 children . . . → Read More: Somalia famine in 2010-12 ‘worst in past 25 years’ Related Posts: Horn of Africa Drought Needs...Read more...
Country-to-country cash and corruption: Differentiating CIA payments from poverty-reducing aid
Tariq Sayed Ahmad is a Researcher with the Aid Effectiveness Team at Oxfam America. The New York Times this week published an incriminating article about the CIA giving “ wads of America dollars ” directly to Afghan President...Read more...
Living below the line for charity challenge
LIVING below the poverty line is not a choice for many people.But Jane Williamson is willingly taking on the challenge of spending only £1 a day on food for five days to raise money for Oxfam.Until today, the stage manager will...Read more...
Sheffield student on the breadline
THE STAPLE diet for many students consists of takeaways, pizza and microwavable meals but that will feel like luxury for a Sheffield Hallam student this week as she lives off just £1-a-day to raise awareness of extreme poverty.Read more...
Sea Of Syrian Refugees Threatens To Overload Jordan
Jordan's fastest-growing city lies in the middle of the desert, where the sand is so white that from a distance it looks like snow. There's little running water and not much electricity. The name of this place? read moreRead more...
Canadians Urge Loblaw to Prevent More Worker Deaths
On the eve of the Annual Meeting of Loblaw Companies Limited, 23 prominent Canadian trade unions, NGOs and faith organizations have sent an Open Letter to the company’s Executive Chairman, Galen Weston, calling on his company...Read more...
Resilience building as panacea for food insecurity
RESILIENCE has become the buzzword in international development circles in recent times. The ability to withstand adversity and bounce back is a simple definition of this word. The meaning in international development parlance...Read more...
Oxfam International Supports Cuban Sustainable Agriculture Program
HAVANA, Cuba, May 2 (acn) Over 1 600 hectares of cultivable lands were rehabilitated by using modern watering systems that help counter drought effects, as a result of cooperation actions that the island has maintained with...Read more...
Farmer Empowering Information System debuts today
The first ever unique Farmer Empowering Information System will be launched today under a multi-stakeholder initiative. The Federation of Chambers of Commerce, Industry of Sri Lanka (FCCSIL) has developed a system to capture...Read more...
Housing Delivery and Housing Finance in Haiti – Oxfam America
Housing Delivery and Housing Finance in HaitiOxfam AmericaAlthough the 2010 earthquake destroyed much of Haiti's urban infrastructure, it is not the sole cause of the nation's distress today. Rather, the earthquake exposed...Read more...
Somalia famine kills nearly 2 60000 people including young children
Over a quarter of a million people, including young children died in a famine in Somalia between October 2010 and April 2012 because the international community did not act quick enough, according to a report commissioned by...Read more...
A Big Hello to New and Existing Members
Want to raise money for those most affected by natural and civic disasters, while making blanket forts? Check out our event next Friday, a simulated refugee camp. With food, a movie screening and lots of fun people, it's just...Read more...
Oxfam helps boost sustainable agriculture in Cuba
Source: XINHUA | 2013-5-3 HAVANA, May 2 (Xinhua) -- The international aid and charity organization Oxfam has in the past two decades helped Cuba develop sustainable agriculture by bringing irrigation technology and promoting...Read more...
Kiwis have a Fairtrade cuppa to give farmers a fair go
For immediate release: May 2nd, 2013 Kiwis have a Fairtrade cuppa to give farmers a fair go Kiwis across the country are poised to put the jug on for Oxfam’s Biggest Coffee Break, part of Fair Trade Fortnight, May 4 -19, New...Read more...
