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17 Nov 2008
Neil Finn announces new Seven Worlds Collide project
Music icon and Crowded House frontman Neil Finn has today announced a follow up to the acclaimed Seven Worlds Collide project, and together with members of the original lineup and other artists, h...
13 Nov 2008
G20 must put fight against poverty at the center of global economic reforms
GLOBAL LEADERS MUST NOT SQUANDER HISTORIC OPPORTUNITY FOR REFORM
The G20 must avoid small-scale tinkering and instead take immediate, aggressive action to tackle poverty while laying out an amb...
13 Nov 2008
Increase in forced labour, rape and harassment in eastern Congo, says Oxfam
Nowhere to hide as Congo's brutality continues in places of 'sanctuary'
There has been an increase in incidents of forced labour, rape and widespread brutality, according to assessments c...
11 Nov 2008
Put an end to bad presents this Christmas with Oxfam Unwrapped
Sick of giving socks and jocks for Christmas? Oxfam Unwrapped aims to solve your gift giving woes with 60 fantastic gift ideas that will not only make life easier for you this festive season, b...
10 Nov 2008
Action must replace European ‘air-miles’ diplomacy as ceasefire breaks
Oxfam calls for European troops for Congo
EU foreign ministers meeting in Brussels today (Monday, 10 November) must provide clear commitments to send European troops to support the UN in easter...
4 Nov 2008
Oxfam begins to double its aid effort in eastern Congo
“The cease-fire has to hold if people are to get the aid they desperately need.” Oxfam
International aid agency Oxfam is to double its aid effort and help nearly 200,000 people caught up ...
3 Nov 2008
Oxfam calls for EU troops to support UN peacekeepers in Congo
European ministers meeting in Marseille tomorrow (Monday, 3 November) must agree to provide European troops to support the UN peacekeeping force in eastern Congo said international agency, Oxfam...
3 Nov 2008
Landslide UN vote in favour of Arms Trade Treaty
Control Arms campaign demands urgent move to end the carnage
US and Zimbabwe only countries to vote against
Today 147 states at the United Nations voted overwhelmingly to move forward wit...
3 Nov 2008
New Zealand teachers and students needed for Oxfam water project
The Wara Bilong Life online project is a fun, interactive, classroom activity where students learn about global water and sanitation issues through a creative process. This project will help stude...
30 Oct 2008
Pakistan earthquake: Oxfam team heads to quake zone
International agency Oxfam will fly a team of four aid experts into the quake zone today from its base in Islamabad. The team will carry out an assessment and deliver an initial NZ$140,000 a...
29 Oct 2008
Air New Zealand using bully tactics in the Pacific, Oxfam says
Air New Zealand’s threat to cut a vital link to US markets for small Pacific Island nations if they refuse to pay steep increases in subsidies goes against the New Zealand Government’s commitment ...
29 Oct 2008
Oxfam raises alarm about escalating Congo violence
Humanitarian need mounts as thousands more people flee from their homes
Fresh fighting in eastern Congo has displaced tens of thousands more people from their homes, international ai...
27 Oct 2008
Oxfam warns millions more Ethiopians going hungry
More than 13.5 million Ethiopians are in need of emergency aid in order to survive as people face severe hunger and destitution from increasing drought and skyrocketing food prices, says internati...
21 Oct 2008
British Oscar-winning actress Helen Mirren backs the Arms Trade Treaty
In these days of giant bank bail-outs and financial calamity, involving sums in the billions, a thousand seems like a small number.
Except it is the average number of people killed by smal...
20 Oct 2008
New Zealand MPs join over 2000 world parliamentarians urging UN to back Arms Trade Treaty
Today the United Nations will receive the demands of more than 2000 parliamentarians from 124 countries for urgent progress towards negotiation of an effective international Arms Trade Treaty (ATT...
17 Oct 2008
Billions in bailouts for the wealthy
Last week the US government provided another bailout of $37.8 billion to the giant insurance company, AIG, bringing the total of rescue loans to that one company in the last two weeks to nearly $1...
16 Oct 2008
Oxfam report: ‘world must learn lessons from food price crisis’
Small farmers in developing countries have not benefited from higher food prices, thanks in part to flawed trade and agricultural policies that have made them vulnerable and weakened their positio...
16 Oct 2008
World Food Day report highlights regional crisis
Food insecurity in the East Asia and Pacific Region is fast becoming a chronic problem, with a report released today showing that people in parts of East Timor are now facing up to five months a y...
14 Oct 2008
Oxfam debate series kicks off in Auckland
In the first of a series of three Oxfam debates,
Tackling Climate Poverty saw spokespeople from the major parties front up on their plans to address climate change.
Party spokespeople i...
29 Sep 2008
Preventing atrocities the real test of new world order, says Oxfam
Too many civilians continue to die in conflict
The major shift in global power provides an opportunity to protect all civilians from genocide and oth...
26 Sep 2008
Action on poverty: Oxfam condemns lack of action on global food crisis
Billions of vital funds missing
As world leaders meet in New York at a special Summit on poverty, Oxfam slammed the lack of urgency by the international community in tackling ...
26 Sep 2008
Action on poverty: Black Eyed Peas frontman launches new song to support the campaign to end poverty
‘in my name’, a new song by Black Eyed Peas frontman will.i.am written for the Global Call to Action against Poverty will premiere today – across MTV, YouTube and www.inmyname.com. The song and ...
22 Sep 2008
Action on poverty: Bold leadership needed to turn tide of poverty
Ahead of a crucial meeting in New York this week to assess the state of the world’s fight against global poverty, international agency Oxfam called on world leaders to intensify their efforts to...
18 Sep 2008
Uganda: People at risk as recovery in Northern Uganda fails to keep pace with returns
Kampala Uganda: A new report from international
agency Oxfam today warns that northern Uganda risks another humanitarian crisis
unless adequate social and health services are urgently put in p...
11 Sep 2008
Afghans facing humanitarian crisis, Oxfam calls on NZ Govt to provide urgent funding
With Afghanistan’s bitter winter drawing nearer, international agency Oxfam warns that time is running out to avert a humanitarian crisis, with funding urgently needed from donor countries, ...
9 Sep 2008
Human rights must be put at the heart of global climate change fight, says Oxfam
Rich countries must start basing their climate change policies on existing human rights principles and stop using economic excuses to wriggle out of their responsibilities, says international agenc...
9 Sep 2008
Insecurity reigns in eastern Chad as the EU-UN mission struggles to protect civilians
The protection mission in eastern Chad is unable to deal with spiralling insecurity leaving half a million people vulnerable to attacks and abuse warns Oxfam in a report published today. One year ...
8 Sep 2008
Oxfam resumes operations in Zimbabwe
Oxfam urges the government to grant full permission to all civil society organizations
Oxfam remains cautiously optimistic about resuming humanitarian aid in Zimbabwe, following discuss...
8 Sep 2008
Emergency blog: Haiti's at breaking point
People wade through flood-ravaged roads after Cyclone Hanna tore through Gonaives, Haiti
, Au...
5 Sep 2008
Accra summit: Last-ditch diplomacy secures better aid agenda
But ‘Agenda for Action’ still needs action, says Oxfam
Last-minute negotiations pushed by developing country and European ministers at the High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness have secured co...
5 Sep 2008
Emergency: Water-Logged Haiti gets hit again as Tropical Storm Hanna unleashes
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Emergency: Thousands of families at risk in Bihar floods
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26 Aug 2008
Emergency: China earthquake survivors start to rebuild lives three months on
Three months on from the devastating Sichuan Earthquake in China, international humanitarian development agency Oxfam has helped more than 600,000 of the most vulnerable and isolated people start ...
18 Aug 2008
Oxfam: NZ must help Pacific tackle climate change
Oxfam New Zealand is calling on the Prime Minister Helen Clark to take the lead at this week’s Pacific Leaders Forum in Niue by helping Pacific Island countries adapt to the impacts of climate cha...
17 Aug 2008
New Zealand challenged on its commitment to support the Pacific
As Pacific officials gather for the start of the annual Pacific Islands Leaders Forum meetings in Niue August 19-21, Oxfam New Zealand and Pacific civil society organisations call on them to se...
15 Aug 2008
Georgia: Oxfam team to begin distributing medical supplies
An Oxfam team in
Georgia will begin distributing medical supplies to hospitals and blankets and other essential items to those displaced by the recent fighting. The initial $NZ135...
8 Aug 2008
International AIDS Conference concludes without a breakthrough
Officials dodge the 2010 goal of universal access, Oxfam says
(Mexico City) The International AIDS Conference concluded today without a clear plan or any new impetus to reach the 2010 target of...
4 Aug 2008
Female condoms: a scandal of willful ignorance
New Oxfam report launched at IAS
Mexico City: A new Oxfam report says health officials have wasted 15 years and countless lives by willfully ignoring the best available invention to help protec...
4 Aug 2008
Oxfam and Annie Lennox address universal access to HIV/AIDS prevention, care, treatment and support
Inadequate funding and aggressive drug company tactics imperil 2010 goal, says
OxfamInadequate donor financing and aggressive tactics by
multinational pharmaceutical companies threaten...
1 Aug 2008
Opinion: WTO Talks Collapse
It’s déjà vu all over again --
Dominion Post, August 1, 2008
by Oxfam New Zealand executive director, Barry Coates
Big news this week – World Trade Organisation (WTO) ta...
29 Jul 2008
DR Congo: Peace Process Fragile, Civilians at Risk
More Than 200 Killed and 150,000 Displaced Since
January Accord Signed
Six mont...
29 Jul 2008
Oxfam: Breakdown of trade talks a missed opportunity
"This is a major
disappointment"
said
Oxfam International Director Jeremy Hobbs.
"At a time when food and fuel prices are high and the global
economic outlook is uncert...
29 Jul 2008
WTO talks hang on a thread
Developing Countries Must Not Be Blamed For Delay
As negotiations continued at the World
Trade Organisation in Geneva, international agency Oxfam said that developing
countries must not be ...
28 Jul 2008
Oxfam Global Ambassador Annie Lennox to attend international conference AIDS 2008 in Mexico City
Oxfam Global Ambassador, singer, songwriter and
long-time AIDS activist Annie Lennox will arrive in Mexico City
next week to attend AIDS 2008: the international AID...
25 Jul 2008
Trade: US blocking on cotton, undermining trade talks
The refusal of the US to cut cotton
subsidies that hurt West African farmers is a signal that they are not serious
about living up to their development promises in tra...
22 Jul 2008
Oxfam: Now more than ever a fair trade deal is needed
Trade reform that puts poor countries first is
desperately needed in the face of rising food and fuel prices and global
economic insecurity. But current offers at the World Trade Organization (W...
22 Jul 2008
US subsidy offer inadequate; will not result in real cuts
A new US offer on farm
subsidies at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Geneva does not go nearly
far enough and will not deliver the promised benefits for developing countries,
said intern...
9 Jul 2008
Oxfam's G8 verdict: "G8 failed to rise to the challenge of a world in crisis"
No breakthrough at crisis summit
“Never was more urgent action needed by the G8 than this week in Japan," said Jeremy Hobbs, Executive Director of international agency Oxfam.
...
9 Jul 2008
Pressure piled on the UN now as G8 leaders fail to rise to the challenge of a world in crisis
The 2008 G8
Summit in Japan
failed to tackle the grievous problems facing the world that are hitting poor
people first and hardest, said international agency Oxfam today at the s...
8 Jul 2008
Oxfam reacts to G8 Statement on the Food Crisis“The G8 leaders do not seem to get it," said Jeremy Hobbs, executive director of Oxfam International. "The facts are clear: G8 biofuels policies are 75% of the problem, yet the leaders barely men...
8 Jul 2008
Oxfam reacts to G8 Development/Africa communiqué“The G8 leaders’ clumsy attempt to backtrack on their aid promises has backfired," said Max Lawson, spokesperson for Oxfam International.
“With two years to ...
8 Jul 2008
Oxfam reacts to the G8 Climate Communiqué
“At this rate, by 2050 the
world will be cooked and the G8 leaders will be long forgotten" said Antonio Hill, spokesperson for Oxfam International. "The G8’...
7 Jul 2008
Rich world's response to food crisis inadequate, says Oxfam
G8 summit must set out clear action plan
Biofuels mandates must be review...
7 Jul 2008
Climate: Near-term reduction targets and adaptation funding are keys to G8 success, says Oxfam
2050 promise a pipe dream without year-on-year action starting now
Unless the G8 leaders agree to immediate action and medium-term targets for reducing their gre...
6 Jul 2008
G8 must not forget poor crippled by food crisis
Poorest paying the ultimate price as food inflation
wipes out years of progress
...
4 Jul 2008
Oxfam Ambassadors Call on G8 to Show Leadership in Fight Against Poverty
A number of Oxfam’s high profile
ambassadors, including actors Scarlett Johansson, Colin Firth and Kristin Davis,
called on G8 leaders to urgently respond to global poverty challenges, s...
3 Jul 2008
Financial crisis shows G8 has the means to tackle poverty – if it has the will, says Oxfam
G8 leaders could relieve the suffering of the 290
million people hit hardest by today’s food crisis if they could give just two
extra cents for every $1 they have spent bailing ou...
26 Jun 2008
Local organisations team up to promote Fairtrade for coffee growers
About 7000 people around the country took part in New Zealand’s Biggest Coffee Break last month, raising awareness about Fairtrade coffee and raising money for Kingsland-based aid agency Oxfam New...
25 Jun 2008
Biofuels: Only if we avoid burning food says Oxfam
Global biofuel policies are not solving the climate or fuel crises but are instead
contributing to food insecurity and inflation, hitting poor people hardest, according to a new report by inter...
13 Jun 2008
G8: Rich nations face ‘credibility crunch’ as leaders meet to tackle global crises
The credibility of G8 finance ministers will be tested this
weekend as the world waits for more urgent and stronger action to tackle global
poverty in the face of climate change and rising...
13 Jun 2008
Climate change: Rich countries offer little in new climate talks
BONN – The second of eight
planned UN meetings to strike a new
deal in 2009 to tackle climate change ended here today with little to
show
, says international agency
Oxfam.
“No-one...
10 Jun 2008
NZ’s largest coffee chain switches to Fairtrade
The Fairtrade market in New Zealand continues to grow rapidly as more and more shoppers demand Fairtrade products. BP’s Wild Bean Café is the latest to make the switch to Fairtrade coffee in a...
7 Jun 2008
Oxfam suspends field operations in Zimbabwe International aid agency Oxfam today announced it has suspended all field work in Zimbabwe on the orders of the government.
A letter issued on June 4 by the Zimbabwean Minister of Public Service, ...
6 Jun 2008
Rome summit ‘important first step’ but much more needed says Oxfam
This week’s UN summit in Rome was an important
first step in tackling the food crisis but greater action is now needed to
resolve the crisis said international agency, Oxfam today.
...
4 Jun 2008
Food Crisis: Aid and trade both crucial to address food crisis
World
leaders must urgently agree a coordinated global action plan to address the
food price crisis, said international agency Oxfam today in a report published for
the emergency UN Food S...
4 Jun 2008
Emergency: New earthquake-resistant schools to open ahead of schedule in Sichuan
The first of Oxfam 10 schools is set to open in Pengzhou, Sichuan province three weeks ahead of schedule allowing 932 primary school students to return to school after last month’s devastating ear...
29 May 2008
Cluster Bombs: Treaty breakthrough in Dublin, cluster bomb ban agreed
(Dublin, Ireland) After nearly two weeks of intense talks in Dublin, negotiating states informally agreed late Wednesday to ban cluster munitions. Governments will formally adopt the Cluster Munit...
24 May 2008
Emergency: Ban Ki Moon’s announcement welcome but more hurdles to clear to help cyclone victimsOxfam
cautiously welcomed the announcement by UN secretary general Ban Ki-Moon
that Myanmar will increase access for aid workers, but warned that the real
test will be whether help reaches those wh...
23 May 2008
Climate change: Oxfam warns of G8 backtracking
G8 environment ministers meeting this weekend in Kobe
must set out an ambitious climate agenda for July’s G8 discussions, showing the
world that the wheels set in m...
22 May 2008
Emergency: Myanmar Donor Conference must put people before political differences
The world must unite around ASEAN led push to reach hundreds of thousands of people who have not received aid in almost three weeks.
International agency Oxfam said...
19 May 2008
New Zealand’s fairest supermarket awards announced
New Zealand shoppers have voted Victoria Park New World as the best Fairtrade supermarket in the country. During Fair Trade Fortnight, hundreds of shoppers around the country have been taking part...
19 May 2008
Emergency: Oxfam helping earthquake survivors in remote rural areas
Oxfam teams are at work
in Sichuan
and Gansu Provinces, focusing on providing water and public health facilities
for survivors in remote rural areas, as the public health situation is
dete...
15 May 2008
Emergency: Oxfam launches appeal for Sichuan Earthquake
Oxfam New Zealand is today launching a $100,000
public appeal in response to the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that rocked southwestern
China
on Monday afternoon.
Oxfam ope...
15 May 2008
Emergency: Updated Myanmar Cyclone questions and answers
What are the total funds committed by Oxfam to the Myanmar cyclone response?
Worldwide Oxfam has already committed
NZ$2.3million as our initial response to the cyclone in Myanmar which in...
13 May 2008
Emergency: Oxfam responds to Sichuan Quake
Oxfam is preparing for an emergency response following the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that rocked south-western China today (May 13). China-based staff will be travelling to Wenchuan County in Sic...
11 May 2008
Emergency: Oxfam warns up to 1.5 million in danger if aid effort cannot reach cyclone victims
Risk of disease outbreak increasing daily as Myanmar stands on the edge of a public health catastrophe
International agency Oxfam said today (May 11) that in the coming weeks and months the liv...
8 May 2008
Emergency: Myanmar Cyclone: questions and answers
How many people have been affected by the Myanmar clycone?
According to news reports 8 May, up to 22,000 have been killed and another 1 million people displaced in five Myanmar regions inc...
6 May 2008
Emergency: Cyclone hits Myanmar
According to the latest government estimates, up to 10,000 people may have died in Saturday’s cyclone, which has devastated large swathes of the south, including the main city Yangon. The cyclon...
5 May 2008
Food crisis: A hungry world is an angry world
By Barry Coates, Executive Director of Oxfam New Zealand
Garth George says (The New Zealand Herald, May 1, 2008) he has read all about the food crisis but remains unconcerned. He suggests we ca...
5 May 2008
Aid Agencies in Chad condemn the killing of Pascal Marlinge, Save the Children UK Country Director
ACTED, Air Serv, Care international, Catholic Relief Services, COOPI, Concern Worlwide, Christian Outreach Relief and Development, International Medical Corps, International Rescue C...
29 Apr 2008
Food Prices: Aid is not enough to address food price crisisWorld leaders at a UN meeting in Switzerland
must go beyond immediate aid to address the root causes of the global food
price crisis, said international agency Oxfam today.
"Aid is urgen...
22 Apr 2008
Partnership or Powerplay? Oxfam paper calls for rethink on EU trade deals
The EU will do irrevocable damage to the development prospects of some of the smallest and poorest countries in the world unless it overhauls free trade deals due to be finalised this year, said O...
21 Apr 2008
Food Prices: CARE and Oxfam call for fundamental changes in tackling global hunger and food price hikesCARE and Oxfam today said the international aid
system not fit for purpose and called for fundamental changes in order to tackle
the challenge of food price hikes and impending food crises in East a...
19 Apr 2008
Trade: Leaked letters reveal Goliath intentions, EPAs between the EU and the Pacific need to be re-negotiated
Oxfam
New Zealand is calling on the European Union
to reconsider its approach to trade negotiations with vulnerable Pacific Island
Countries, following an exchange of letters between ...
16 Apr 2008
Climate change: Major emitters must show contribution to UN negotiations
This week’s meeting of the world’s
biggest carbon emitters in Paris
must set out constructive proposals that will advance UN negotiation...
14 Apr 2008
Darfur 5 years on: 5 steps forward
It has now been five years since the
crisis in Darfur, Sudan, first erupted. Today, 4.5
million people are caught in its grip and are in need of aid. As the violence
continues, that n...
14 Apr 2008
Aid: Rich world leaders voice concern for the poor, but fail to act
Finance ministers and central bank governors from the world’s richest nations have spent two days discussing how high food prices, climate change and falling aid volumes will impact the world’s po...
10 Apr 2008
Emergency: Disasters caused by human failures not naturePolitical inaction, poor decisions and bad
management have helped to turn South Asia into
the world’s most disaster-prone region, says Oxfam International in a study
released today.
...
8 Apr 2008
Climate Change: Bretton Woods Institutions need to take action on climate and food crisis
As the Bretton Woods Institutions meet this week for the Spring Meetings, Oxfam calls on them and governments to keep poverty top of the agenda.
At a time when the global economy is facing...
6 Apr 2008
Trailwalker: Teams meet cut-off in successful event
Camaraderie was the winner on the day with 242 teams meeting the 36-hour cut-off for Oxfam Trailwalker 2008 – held this weekend (April 5-6). With Taupo turning on glorious weather, Pathways Nation...
4 Apr 2008
Climate change: UN climate talks demand bigger effort from all countries
Oxfam applauded the ambitious schedule of negotiations agreed today at the UNFCCC meetings in Bangkok, but warned that it must now be matched by a huge extra effort from every country to achieve a...
4 Apr 2008
Trailwalker: Walking for a change, countdown to the Oxfam 100km team challenge
More than 1000 participants are
descending on Taupo this weekend for Oxfam Trailwalker -- the world's greatest
team challenge.
This year the event involves 263
national...
4 Apr 2008
Aid: Oxfam warns that New Zealand development aid still lags far behind
Oxfam New Zealand remains concerned over the low level of aid
spending. New figures to be released in Tokyo today
by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) show th...
4 Apr 2008
Cluster Bombs: Oxfam welcomes NZ Super Fund’s move to divest from cluster bomb production
Oxfam New Zealand welcomes today’s announcement by the New Zealand Superannuation Fund that it will take measures to divest from companies engaged in the production of cluster munitions. The use o...
29 Mar 2008
Sudan: 2 million people risk being cut off from assistance due to lack of funding for aid flights
Long-term funds urgently needed as conflict and coming rains leave many areas accessible only by air
14 international aid agencies today warned that vital assistance to millions...
27 Mar 2008
Aid: Major donors failing Afghanistan due to US$10bn aid shortfall
Forty percent of aid spending returns to rich countries in corporate
profits and consultant costs
...
26 Mar 2008
Emergency: Somalia crisis deteriorates, aid agencies warn
On October 30, 2007, 39 NGOs warned of the rapidly deteriorating
situation in Somalia
and an impending humanitarian catastrophe. Since then, the crisis
engulfing Somalia has deteriorate...
20 Mar 2008
World Water Day 2008
Clean water is so essential to life that most of us here in New Zealand take it for granted. But one in five of the world’s people lives without safe water and two in five lack even basic sanitati...
12 Mar 2008
Oxfam partner wins International Women of Courage Award
Virisila
Buadromo, Executive Director of Oxfam New Zealand
programme partners, Fiji Women’s Rights Movement, has...
8 Mar 2008
International Women’s Day: Action needed on maternal mortality as over half a million women die each year
As the world marks International Women’s Day on March 8th Oxfam calls for action on maternal mortality as over half a million women die each year.
In sub-Saharan Africa, women face a one i...
8 Mar 2008
International Women's Day: Meet some of the inspiring women we work with
International Women's Day on March 8 is the global day connecting women around the world and celebrating the collective power of women past, present and future.
At Oxfam New Zealand, we work w...
5 Mar 2008
Ecuador: Oxfam helping 10,000 people affected by floods
Oxfam International today started delivering aid to 2,000 families (10,000
people) affected by the severe flooding in Ecuador., The aid will be
concentrated in the temporary she...
4 Mar 2008
Gaza: Oxfam warns of dire humanitarian consequences of full scale military incursion into Gaza
Oxfam International warns of dire humanitarian consequences of the full
scale military incursion into Gaza now being
considered by the government of Israel.
Oxfam is deeply conce...
28 Feb 2008
Afghanistan: Local peacebuilding urgently needed to reduce insecurity
Land, water
and family disagreements are the major causes of local insecurity in Afghanistan,
according to a report by Oxfam International, which calls for a new approach to
bringing pe...
28 Feb 2008
Gaza: Israeli bombs destroy Oxfam-funded health clinic
Oxfam
International today confirmed that a health clinic it helps fund was hit and
vital medical equipment were destroyed in an attack by the Israeli air force on
Gaza City late last ...
23 Feb 2008
Emergency: Oxfam responds to calls for help for 3.5 million people affected by Ecuador floods
Oxfam is sending a team to Ecuador to provide emergency
assistance following flooding that has affected 3.5 million people and forced
over a quarter of a million people from their home...
22 Feb 2008
Cluster Bombs: Thank you New Zealand for supporting the cluster bomb ban
As the Wellington Conference on Cluster Munitions winds to a close, Oxfam New Zealand expressed its gratitude to the New Zealand public and government today for the strong stance they have taken o...
22 Feb 2008
Emergency: Aid to be flown in to Bolivia for flood victims in El Beni
The international NGO Oxfam
International and the European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid Department
announce that today, February 22, an airlift with emergency supplies will be
arriving at ...
22 Feb 2008
PNG: Eileen Kolma on Oxfam's peacebuilding work
Eileen Kolma is the Country Representative for Oxfam International in Papua New Guinea
There are two
sides to Papua New Guinea:
the beautiful side and th...
22 Feb 2008
Cluster Bombs: Historic step forward for treaty to ban cluster bombs
After a week of tough diplomatic talks, the voice of survivors and committed states has prevailed and a draft treaty to ban cluster munitions has been endorsed for formal negotiation. The so calle...
18 Feb 2008
Chad: Oxfam warns Europe not to repeat mistakes of Darfur in Chad
Oxfam today called on EU foreign ministers meeting in Brussels not to repeat the mistakes of Darfur in Chad, and to
vigorously pursue all diplomatic channels to help secure a lasting ceasefir...
18 Feb 2008
Cluster Bombs: Oxfam calls on government to stand strong on cluster bomb ban
Ahead of the opening of the biggest disarmament meeting that New Zealand has ever hosted, the Wellington Conference on Cluster Munitions, Oxfam New Zealand has called on the government to take str...
16 Feb 2008
China: Rebuilding and rehabilitation work for China's worst snowstorm in 50 years
The worst snowstorm in 50 years has brought a
crisis for more than 78 million people in 19 provinces: power cuts, collapsed
homes, people stranded over the Lunar New Year h...
15 Feb 2008
Bangladesh: 3 months after Cyclone Sidr, 1.3 million face monsoon in temporary shelter
More than 1.3
million people affected by the Bangladesh
cyclone are still living in temporary shelter as the monsoon rains approach,
international agency Oxfam warned today.
...
15 Feb 2008
Africa: President Bush's legacy in question on trip to Africa
On the eve of his trip to Africa,
international humanitarian agency Oxfam called ...
15 Feb 2008
Opinion: Women Bear the Brunt of War, by Jody Williams
By Jody Williams, 1997 Nobel Peace Laureate, Chair of the
Nobel Women’s Initiative
Published in the Dominion Post, Friday 15 February 2008
...
14 Feb 2008
Emergency: Oxfam will provide humanitarian aid to 20,000 people affected by Bolivia floods
Oxfam
will provide shelter, and water and sanitation facilities to 4,000 families in
urban and rural areas, mainly indigenous communities, threatened by the
flooding that is affecting the D...
11 Feb 2008
Nobel Laureate to speak at Auckland breakfast
Kiwis will
have the opportunity to hear Nobel Laureate Jody Williams speak at a public
breakfast held by Oxfam New Zealand at the Auckland Museum
on Thursday 21 February. Williams, ...
8 Feb 2008
Chad: Oxfam aid effort in Chad three weeks away from total shut downOxfam International warned today
that its aid effort in eastern Chad
is three weeks away from total shut down when it will be forced to turn off the
water for more than 100,000 people. Fighting in ...
8 Feb 2008
G8: Don't let the poorest pay the price of economic downturn
G7 Finance Ministers must not allow concerns over the bleak economic outlook to knock poverty and international aid issues off the agenda when they meet in Tokyo tomorrow. Urgent action is needed ...
4 Feb 2008
Chad: Oxfam evacuates staff but work continues in eastern Chad
Oxfam has evacuated
its international staff from its N’djamena office, following the latest upsurge
in fighting in the capital.
“We had no choice, but to evacuate our staf...
4 Feb 2008
HIV/AIDS: Actress Kristin Davis in South Africa to help Oxfam break the stigma of AIDS
Kristin
Davis, star of US hit TV show Sex & the City, joined Oxfam and leading AIDS
activists at a Johannesburg press conference yesterday, to support community
efforts in address...
31 Jan 2008
Climate change: Oxfam comments on major emitters meeting
Biggest polluters must commit to mandatory emissions cuts and adaptation funding in Hawaii
This week’s meeting of the world’s biggest
carbon emitters i...
31 Jan 2008
Gaza: This isn't a life for children. It isn't a life for anyone
Written by a humanitarian worker in Gaza, working in partnership with Oxfam
Photo: Getting water wherever you can.
Credit: ...
30 Jan 2008
Emergency: Oxfam assists in 3 provinces after China's worst snowstorm in 50 years
With snow and freezing temperatures since mid-January, much of China is in crisis mode. According to the Ministry of Civil Affairs, at least 30 million people in 10 provinces have been affected, m...
29 Jan 2008
East Timor: Recovery a slow, ongoing process
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Former Indonesian President Suharto, who died today aged 86, will be remembered for ordering the killing of hundreds of thousands of communists and the brutal in...
26 Jan 2008
Gaza: Israel's blockade poses immediate threat to the lives of sick and elderlyThe seven-month ongoing Israeli blockade is taking an ever-more severe toll on the health system in the Gaza Strip, says aid agency Oxfam International. The one-off relaxation of the blockade this wee...
22 Jan 2008
Gaza: Hours from water and sewage crisis as fuel for pumps run dry
Gaza's water and sewage systems are a matter of hours
from almost total shut down as stocks of fuel to run vital pumps run out
according to international agency Oxfam.
Only 37 of the...
21 Jan 2008
Emergency: Mozambique floods under control for now, but risk of further devastation still real
Crops
destroyed for second year in a row
Flooding
in Mozambique
may likely worsen in the weeks to come as more rain and cy...
21 Jan 2008
Gaza: Total blockade and escalating violence—a daily assault on the rights and security of civilians
New information on interruption of fuel supplies affecting water and
electricity
Oxfam is calling on the government of Israel and on Palestinian armed
groups to ...
8 Jan 2008
Emergency: Kenya in crisis
Oxfam continues to be extremely concerned about the outbreak of violence in Kenya following
the disputed elections of December 27.
The situation
The violence has...
8 Jan 2008
Emergency: Interview with Oxfam’s Peace and Reconciliation Officer in Kenya
“The bitterness, it comes from inequality”
Interview with Daniel Kiptugen, Oxfam’s Peace and Reconciliation Officer in
Kenya
Since the crisis broke out in Kenya,
Oxfam’s Peace ...
7 Jan 2008
Emergency: Possible health crisis as Mozambique flood waters rise
Answering a call for help from the Mozambican government, international aid agency Oxfam dispatched emergency staff to flood-hit areas in the country to assess humanitarian needs of te...
24 Dec 2007
Emergency: Oxfam has helped over 2.3m people recover from the tsunami
Three years after the Indian Ocean tsunami international aid agency Oxfam has spent over NZ$280m on disaster recovery work, helped over 2.3m people in seven countries and is on track to finish its...
21 Dec 2007
Trade: EU trade agreements pose huge threat to development
EU Ministers will today formally approve a market access
regulation for African, Caribbean and Pacific
(ACP) countries with which the EC has concluded interim trade agreements.
Development ...
17 Dec 2007
Climate: Oxfam's verdict of the Bali Conference
Mitigation
There is a basis for moving forward on negotiations to achieve emissions cuts..
The ‘Bali roadmap’ process has been launched, aiming for a long term agreement on emi...
14 Dec 2007
DRC: Donors, UN Security Council must act to relieve humanitarian catastrophe in Eastern DR Congo
As Oxfam International unveils a new exhibition of photographs that put a human face to the ongoing conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the aid agency today called on the i...
13 Dec 2007
Climate: The Bali Roadmap: Driving ahead or steering off course? Oxfam says, ‘It’s up to U Now’Under unprecedented scrutiny around the world—in
rich communities and poor—the Ministers of Environment from 189 countries
arrived in Bali for the three final days of critical negotiation at this ye...
13 Dec 2007
Aid: Rich countries must pressure the World Bank to end harmful lending practices
As the world’s richest donors are
set to finalise their aid commitments to the World Bank this week,
international development and aid agency Oxfam has called on them to use their
influence...
12 Dec 2007
Climate: Don’t let the United States threaten the Bali roadmap by rejecting sufficient adaptation funding
JOINT RELEASE BY: Oxfam International * CARE
International * ActionAid International Tearfund * Friends of the Earth
International * Practical Action
Last night ...
12 Dec 2007
Trade: Oxfam dismayed by EU failure to lift trade threat on poor nationsOxfam today expressed grave concern that the EU
is set to increase significantly import tariffs on poor countries' goods from
next year, with a potentially devastating impact on economic growth and
...
12 Dec 2007
PNG: Kup Women win Human Rights award
Agnes, Mary and Angela of Kup Women for Peace, have worked to bring an end to tribal fighting and violence against women in th...
11 Dec 2007
Climate: Poor countries gain a voice in Bali
Delegates at the climate change
negotiations in Bali have reached a key
agreement yesterday that will set the course for how money will be made
available to poor countries to help avo...
10 Dec 2007
Trade: A partnership in pieces?
The EU-Africa summit that took place in Lisbon this
weekend has been criticised for not delivering concrete outcomes but it did do
one useful thing: it highlighted the massive problems and t...
10 Dec 2007
Climate: US-EU trade proposal: old wine, different bottles
Bali, Indonesia — Oxfam welcomed a long overdue meeting of Trade Ministers in the sidelines of the UN Conference on Climate Change in Bali over the weekend to discuss how trade policies can cont...
10 Dec 2007
Chad: 400,000 lives hang in the balance as EU member states drag feet on Chad Force
Oxfam today criticised European Union member states for failing to provide an urgently needed neutral force to protect over 400,000 Darfuri refugees and displaced people in Eastern C...
7 Dec 2007
Cluster bombs: all eyes on Wellington as Oxfam calls for strongest possible ban
Oxfam New Zealand has called on the government to do its utmost to secure a strong global ban on cluster munitions when it convenes a major diplomatic conference on the weapon in Wellington next F...
5 Dec 2007
European trade deal undermines Pacific integration
Oxfam New Zealand is concerned that Pacific integration has been undermined by the initialling of trade agreements between the European Union (EU) and Papua New Guinea (PNG) and Fiji. In the face ...
5 Dec 2007
Six years after the Bonn Agreement Afghanistan still needs more effective aid and better rural development
On the sixth anniversary of the signing of the Bonn Agreement, the foundation of post-Taliban Afghanistan, Oxfam International says urgent action is needed if Afghanistan is to avoid a humanitaria...
4 Dec 2007
Rich countries must pay up to help poor countries adapt to climate change
Rich countries have paid only $67m into a UN fund to help the world’s poorest countries adapt to climate change which is less than what Americans spend on suntan lotion each month, according to a ...
3 Dec 2007
Bali can be the tipping point on climate change says Oxfam
Leaders of 189 countries have historic opportunity to break deadlock and protect the world’s poor from climate chaos
Together with a groundswell of people from governments, the private secto...
1 Dec 2007
Oxfam’s Global Ambassador Annie Lennox launches charity single for World Aid's Day
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.
Featuring the vocal ...
29 Nov 2007
World AIDS Day 2007 – More doctors and nurses urgently needed to help HIV and AIDS response
As the world marks World AIDS Day 2007 on 1 December, a huge boost in the numbers of health workers is urgently needed as millions of HIV and AIDS patients continue to be left without proper care,...
27 Nov 2007
Pharmaceutical industry undermining its own future as millions of poor people are denied access to medicines
The pharmaceutical industry is denying medicines to millions of poor people and undermining its own future because companies are refusing to change the way they do business in developing country m...
25 Nov 2007
Disasters escalating four-fold as climate change hits poor hardestWeather-related disasters have quadrupled over the last two decades, from an average of 120 a year in the early 1980s to as many as 500 today, says international agency Oxfam in a new report today. Th...
24 Nov 2007
Oxfam scales up response to PNG flooding
New Zealander, Dave Neru, has arrived in Papua New Guinea today to assist with Oxfam’s humanitarian relief effort following last week’s Cyclone Guba that left up to 145,000 people without ad...
21 Nov 2007
100,000 lives saved, but the catastrophe is just beginning for Bangladesh
Early warning systems and shelters saved an estimated 100,000 lives in last week’s Cyclone Sidr, but Oxfam is warning that without a massive international response the country faces its worst h...
20 Nov 2007
Bangladesh cyclone survivors urgently need food and shelter
Tens of thousands of people in Bangladesh urgently need food and shelter after a cyclone hit the country on Thursday night.
The massive loss and damage to crops - estimated at between 50 - 95 p...
20 Nov 2007
Oxfam launches $75,000 Bangladesh Cyclone Appeal
Three million people
affected, over 270,000 houses destroyed, the need is enormous
Oxfam today
launches a Bangladesh Cyclone appeal, calling on the New Zealand public to donat...
20 Nov 2007
Oxfam assists communities affected by PNG floods
International agency Oxfam has
sent experienced local disaster expert, Harry Gubala to assess the impacts of
recent flooding in the coastal re...
19 Nov 2007
New report: Millions in Asia and Pacific facing the brunt of climate change
Global warming is set to reverse
decades of social and economic progress across Asia
and the Pacific, home to more than four billion people or 60 percent of the
world’s popu...
19 Nov 2007
Governments must act as “unequivocal” climate change hits world’s poorest people
Oxfam response to 2007
IPCC Synthesis Report
International
agency, Oxfam welcomes the findings of the Synthesis Report from the
Intergovernmental Panel on Cli...
16 Nov 2007
Earthquake hits Northern Chile
Official data collected 24 hours after an earthquake registering 7.8 degrees on the Richter scale hit Northern Chile, indicates that there have been two deaths, 15,000 people injured and about 4,0...
16 Nov 2007
Oxfam responds to the Select Committee Inquiry into New Zealand’s relationships with South Pacific countries
Oxfam New Zealand has submitted a response to the Parliamentary Select Committee Inquiry into New Zealand’s relationships with South Pacific countries, which looks at the role New Zealand plays an...
13 Nov 2007
Pacific solidarity essential in European trade talks
By Barry Coates, Executive Director, Oxfam New Zealand
It’s one of the oldest tactics – divide and rule. It may be predictable, but it is still highly effective. It is being used in trade negot...
12 Nov 2007
TV journalist Ingrid Leary wins Oxfam's Pacific media award
Ingrid Leary reporting on Oxfam's reconstruction efforts in Aceh, Indonesia, following the Boxing Day Tsunami, 2004
Inde...
1 Nov 2007
Biofuelling Poverty - EU plans could be disastrous for poor people
EU plans to increase the use of biofuels could spell disaster for some of the world’s poorest people warns international agency, Oxfam in a new briefing published today.
EU proposals will make ...
31 Oct 2007
International NGOs cannot adequately respond to the unfolding humanitarian catastrophe in Somalia
Today, 40 International and National NGOs stated:
“There is an unfolding humanitarian catastrophe in South Central Somalia. Tens of thousands of people are currently fleeing violence in Mogadi...
26 Oct 2007
New Zealanders take on the fight against climate change
A major new campaign being launched tomorrow aims to get tens of thousands of New Zealanders active in tackling climate change.
The Be The Change campaign will be launched outside the Auckland ...
18 Oct 2007
Oxfam calls on World Bank President to make health and education for the poorest countries a priority
As the new World Bank President is set to open the International Financial Institutions' (IFIs) Annual Meetings, international aid agency Oxfam called on him to put health and education for the po...
17 Oct 2007
Evermore busks for Oxfam
New Zealand band Evermore left the limelight of the stage today and took to the streets in Auckland with open guitar cases to busk in front of hundreds of fans for Oxjam - Oxfam New Zealand’s mont...
16 Oct 2007
Pacific Civil Society Organisations issue statement to Pacific Leaders on trade deals
Workshop on Trade Pacific Regional CSO Forum 2007
Statement to Pacific Leaders
Pacific CSOs recognize and appreciate the increased engagement by governments with CSOs over the past two years ...
13 Oct 2007
Oxfam response to Al Gore and IPCC winning Nobel Peace Prize
Oxfam International today extends heartfelt congratulations to Al Gore and the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, recognised by the Nobel Foundation for raising the conscio...
11 Oct 2007
Fifteen years of conflicts have cost Africa around $300bn
The cost of conflict on African development was approximately $300bn between 1990 and 2005, according to new research by Oxfam International, IANSA and Saferworld. This is equal to the amount of m...
8 Oct 2007
UN and humanitarian organisations urge world not to forget flood survivors in South Asia
Sir John Holmes, the United Nations Undersecretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, and leading international humanitarian organisations, including CARE, World Vision, Save the Children, Oxf...
1 Oct 2007
New Zealand’s hottest musicians ready to party against poverty
This October New Zealand’s best known musicians have joined together to urge music fans to get involved with Oxfam’s month-long, New Zealand-wide party against poverty.
Hollie Smith, The Black ...
27 Sep 2007
Global day of action calls for a stop to damaging trade deals
Thousands of campaigners, workers, and farmers from across Europe, Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific are taking part in a series of coordinated actions today to protest against proposed Economic P...
24 Sep 2007
Oxfam welcomes high-level UN push to tackle climate change
Rich countries must heed the United Nation’s call for an urgent political response to tackle climate change, says international agency Oxfam.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will meet heads ...
20 Sep 2007
Oxfam welcomes emissions trading scheme, but urges swifter implementation action
Oxfam New Zealand welcomes the Emissions Trading Scheme announced by the government today as a crucial tool to tackle climate change. However, the proposals do not go far enough or fast enough to ...
14 Sep 2007
Oxfam emergency response team deployed to Sumatra earthquake zone in Indonesia
Oxfam is providing plastic sheeting for 1000 families for temporary shelter and housing repair as well as clothing for people in the disaster affected areas following the 8.4 magnitude e...
7 Sep 2007
Oxfam: APEC must point the way to an ambitious climate change deal
International agency Oxfam is calling on the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Heads of State to kick-start an ambitious plan to tackle climate change amid widespread concern that this week...
31 Aug 2007
EU trade negotiations threaten Pacific industries and livelihoods
Pacific hopes for a development-friendly trade deal with the European Union (EU) have been dashed with the EU putting forward a draft negotiating text that offers virtually nothing to the Pacific,...
29 Aug 2007
Two weeks on: Oxfam delivering critical water, shelter in rural Peru
Following comprehensive emergency assessments and initial relief distributions for Peru earthquake victims, international aid agency Oxfam this week began its humanitarian response in remote, hard...
25 Aug 2007
The Pacific Solution: A $1 billion ‘living hell’
New report shows flawed system costs Australian taxpayer $500,000 a person, fuels mental illness in refugees, is unaccountable and diverts Australian aid from poverty reduction
Six years since ...
23 Aug 2007
Earthquake response to focus on water and sanitation
In Peru, Oxfam is rolling out a programme to help people in rural areas access clean water and begin to rebuild their homes and their lives.
As the dust begins to settle in the southern coast o...
19 Aug 2007
Oxfam teams return from Peru earthquake assessment: Rural areas in desperate need of aid
Upon the completion of its humanitarian needs assessment in southern Peru, international aid agency Oxfam has today reported that thousands of people living in rural areas urgently need all forms ...
19 Aug 2007
No ordinary evening in Peru
Celia Aldana, Oxfam’s Communications Officer in Lima, describes the first hours of the earthquake there, and the unfolding tragedy in Pisco.
It seemed an ordinary Wednesday in Lima. I left the ...
17 Aug 2007
Peru earthquake: aftershocks continue as Oxfam plans to target rural areas in emergency response
As aftershocks continued to hit the south of Peru, international aid agency Oxfam has arrived in the epicenter of the crisis to assess its emergency response, which will aim to provide urgent reli...
14 Aug 2007
Oxfam calls for radical rethink of flood policies in South Asia
International development agency Oxfam today called for a radical rethink in the way South Asian governments implement flood defence and response policy.
In a report released today called
S...
8 Aug 2007
Oxfam launches appeal for massive South Asia floods
Oxfam internationally today launched a NZ$2.5 million appeal as it scales up its work to help almost 500,000 people affected by floods in India, Bangladesh and Nepal, desperately needing assistanc...
3 Aug 2007
Europe backs down on Pacific aid conditionality threat
Oxfam New Zealand expressed
relief today that the European Commission (EC) has backed down from its threat
to cut EC development aid funds to the region if the Paci...
2 Aug 2007
Pacific Trade Ministers reject EU pressure to sign EPAs
A conclusion to the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) between the European Commission (EC) and Pacific nations by the end-of-year deadline is looking unlikely after the EC threatened to cut d...
1 Aug 2007
Oxfam’s response to the UN Security Council resolution on DarfurThe United Nations Security Council has voted to deploy up to 26,000 police and troops to Darfur. The Security Council voted unanimously to deploy the force in the troubled region of Sudan and approve...
1 Aug 2007
Bihar, India: Oxfam calls for a coordinated response to flood crisis
Patna:
International humanitarian agency Oxfam today
urged the government, other humanitarian agencies, local civil society
organizations and donors to come together and immediately...
30 Jul 2007
Nearly a third of Iraqis need immediate emergency help as conflict masks humanitarian crisis
The violence in Iraq is overshadowing a humanitarian crisis, with eight million Iraqis – nearly one in three - in need of emergency aid, says a report released today by international agency Oxfam ...
24 Jul 2007
Oxfam launches Global Ambassadors programme with A-listers topping the bill
Scarlett Johansson has become the latest celebrity to join Oxfam's Global Ambassador program, officially launched today. Scarlett decided to sign up following a trip to India and Sri Lanka where s...
18 Jul 2007
Oxfam Ambassador Tegla Loroupe visits Darfur
Oxfam Ambassador and renowned Kenyan sports athlete Tegla Loroupe says that the humanitarian crisis facing the people of Darfur is of a scale unlike any she has ever seen.
Ms. Loroupe recently ...
18 Jul 2007
New numbers on agriculture inch in right direction, but WTO development deal remains a long way off
Today’s proposal at the WTO to unblock global trade negotiations continues to offer too little and cost too much to developing countries to constitute the basis for a development deal, says intern...
16 Jul 2007
Gaza on brink of complete humanitarian dependency
International humanitarian agency Oxfam and Israeli human rights group Gisha are warning of dire humanitarian consequences if Gaza’s commercial routes are not re-opened and called upon Israel...
6 Jul 2007
Gaza refugees facing massive water cuts, disease
International humanitarian agency Oxfam today warned that thousands of refugees across Gaza will face imminent cuts in water and sewage services if more fuel is not provided in the coming days ...
26 Jun 2007
Governments show overwhelming support for Arms Treaty
Campaigners around the world are celebrating a significant victory after more than 80 governments participated in the UN consultation process on an Arms Trade Treaty.
The arms trade has no eff...
26 Jun 2007
Oxfam to Robert Zoellick: 100 days for a new deal at the World Bank
Washington D.C: Ambassador Robert Zoellick ‘s confirmation today as the new president of the World Bank is a vital opportunity for a new deal at the Bank, following the controversial exit of its p...
25 Jun 2007
Oxfam condemns the caging of Gaza
International agency calls for immediate opening of border
International agency Oxfam today condemned aid blockade of Gaza that is leaving 1.3 million people on the brink of a humanitarian c...
25 Jun 2007
New Zealand needs to change tack on Doha trade talks
The breakdown of trade talks between India, Brazil, the EU and US was a result of a non-transparent and exclusive process and the failure of the richest countries to table offers that would give r...
21 Jun 2007
Oxfam celebrates win-win outcome for Ethiopian coffee farmers and Starbucks
Starbucks and Ethiopia signed a distribution, marketing and licensing agreement today that ends their trademark dispute and brings them together in partnership to help Ethiopian coffee farmers....
19 Jun 2007
Israeli blockade of Gaza must end
EU Foreign Ministers must ensure Israel ends its blockade of Gaza when they meet Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni in Luxembourg today, warned international agency Oxfam.
Nearly one and a ha...
18 Jun 2007
Oxfam to withdraw from Darfur’s largest camp
Security concerns have not been addressed--
Assistance to 130,000 people to be phased out as a result
International aid agency Oxfam today announced it will permanently phase out activities in ...
15 Jun 2007
Trading away Pacific nations' livelihoods
Difficult times lie ahead for trade from small and isolated nations such as New Zealand. Consumers in Europe are starting to avoid our lamb and other exports because of concerns over long distance...
9 Jun 2007
G8 miss mark as 'new' announcements disguise overall failure
G8 leaders are leaving Germany today having failed to do enough to shore up their wavering credibility or guarantee that they will keep their promises to Africa, said international agency Oxfam. D...
7 Jun 2007
Killed by HIV/AIDS: the cost of G8 penny-pinching in Germany?
As leaders of the world's richest countries flew into Germany for the G8 summit, international agency Oxfam urged them to make concrete financial commitments to fund HIV/AIDS programmes in develop...
6 Jun 2007
G8 risk going into reverse on aid, warns Oxfam on eve of summitIt is scandalous that on the eve of the G8 summit in Heiligendamm, Germany, G8 countries can not even agree whether they will keep their 2005 aid promises, said international agency Oxfam today.
G...
31 May 2007
Pre-G8 talks go down to wire; Oxfam urges leaders to remember promises to Africa
With just days to go before the G8 summit in Heilingendamm, Germany, G8 leaders remain divided not just over commitments on climate change but also on whether to reiterate earlier promises made to...
29 May 2007
Stop harming and start helping on climate change
Rich countries must increase their spending to help developing countries adapt to the harmful effects of climate change, according to a new report published today by international agency Oxfam. Hu...
25 May 2007
Ministers are running out of opportunities to stop unfair trade deals between the EU and ACP
As Ministers from Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) meet their European counterparts in Brussels today to review ongoing trade negotiations civil society organisations from around the world ...
24 May 2007
Name your candidate, says Oxfam International
Oxfam International today called for countries to come out and nominate candidates for the next President of the World Bank.
"This is a multilateral institution, and there should be a multilate...
18 May 2007
G8 finance ministers try to duck discussion of their failure on aid to Africa
G8 Finance Ministers are desperately trying to avoid any discussion of their failure to deliver promised aid to Africa, says international agency, Oxfam ahead of the G8 Finance Ministers meeting (...
18 May 2007
Oxfam calls for next World Bank president to be appointed on merit
Following today's announcement by World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz that he will resign next month, international development agency Oxfam is calling for the next leader to be chosen in a proper...
15 May 2007
120,000 messages calling for an end to poverty given to Winston Peters
Two years of campaigning paid off today when Foreign Minister Winston Peters accepted a representative petition from members of the Make Poverty History (MPH) coalition.
Representatives of t...
14 May 2007
Oxfam welcomes increase in foreign aid
Oxfam welcomes the increase in overseas development assistance announced today as part of the Government’s 2007-2008 Budget.
Foreign Minister Winston Peters announced that the Government would ...
11 May 2007
New Zealand's Biggest Coffee Break a huge success
The aroma of Fairtrade coffee looks set to linger long after Fair Trade Fortnight for the thousands of kiwis around the country who made the conscious choice to support coffee farmers in the devel...
10 May 2007
G8 broken promises could cost five million lives
A new report launched today by Oxfam shows that on current trends the G8 countries could miss their promise to increase aid by 2010 by a massive $30 billion at a cost of at least five million...
8 May 2007
Oxfam optimistic on progress between Starbucks and Ethiopia on trademarking initiative
International agency Oxfam welcomed today’s news that the Government of Ethiopia and theStarbucks Coffee Company have agreed in principle to sign a licensing, distribution and marketing agreement ...
1 May 2007
Thousands of kiwis to take a good break for Oxfam
Thousands of kiwis will this month take part in New Zealand’s Biggest Coffee Break – a nationwide Oxfam event, in support of Fair Trade Fortnight, encouraging New Zealanders to treat their friends...
26 Apr 2007
Oxfam challenges the EU to extend market access to Pacific in the absence of an EPA trade deal
The European Commission has threatened some of the world's poorest countries, including nations in the Pacific, with lower access to the EU market if they fail to sign new free trade deals known a...
24 Apr 2007
Leaders, celebrities and journalists call on governments to deliver life-saving Arms Trade Treaty
Three leading female advocates of the campaign to control the international arms trade - Liberian President, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf; Oscar-winning actress Helen Mirren; and former Irish President, ...
19 Apr 2007
Oxfam action against unfair trade deals between Europe and the Pacific
Photo: Campaigners illustrate the unequal partnership between the EU and the Pacific. CREDIT Oxfam NZ/ ...
18 Apr 2007
Oxfam Solomons response in full swing
Thanks to the generous support of major institutional donors and the corporate sector in Australia and New Zealand, international aid agency Oxfam continues its humanitarian response to meet the n...
16 Apr 2007
Teams meet cut-off in successful Oxfam Trailwalker event
Well within the 36-hour cut-off, Team AUT C@S Away took last-line honours in 34 hrs 10mins, having battled bitter autumn elements in the 100km team challenge – Oxfam Trailwalker – held at Taupo th...
16 Apr 2007
Oxfam launches $13.5million appeal for world's largest humanitarian crisis
Oxfam today launched a NZ$13.5million appeal to sustain its life-saving work in Darfur and Chad. The international agency urgently needs the money to continue helping people in what has become the...
15 Apr 2007
Victory to Vets in Oxfam Trailwalker
The Valley Vets have triumphed in cold conditions to take out the New Zealand’s Oxfam Trailwalker 2007 title, covering 100km in an impressive 13hr,19min in Taupo tonight (Saturday, April 14).
T...
14 Apr 2007
1000 Trailwalker participants head off to walk 100km for Oxfam
Donned in a colourful array of waterproof gear and glancing at the ominous rain clouds, 1000 Oxfam Trailwalker participants have set off from Taupo this morning with the task of walking 100kms off...
13 Apr 2007
Financial boycott oushes Palestinians into poverty and essential services to meltdown
A survey commissioned by international development agency Oxfam International and released today, highlights how the suspension of Western aid and Israel’s refusal to transfer money owed to the Pa...
13 Apr 2007
Oxfam urges greater aid focus on health workers and teachers
At the start of the Spring Meetings of the World Bank and IMF, Oxfam is calling on donor governments including New Zealand to help solve the chronic shortage of doctors, nurses and teachers in dev...
11 Apr 2007
Oxfam calls for more climate change aidIn light of a new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) stating that developing countries will be disproportionately affected, Oxfam New Zealand has called on the government t...
5 Apr 2007
Oxfam emergency workers leave for Solomons – water, food and shelter are the prioritiesOxfam is deploying additional emergency workers to help with the assessment, recovery and emergency support in the aftermath of the Solomon Islands earthquake and tsunami that left dozens killed and r...
4 Apr 2007
New Zealand Government remains one of the least generous aid givers
In the run up to the government’s budget announcement, Oxfam is calling for an increase in foreign aid assistance following the release of new figures that show that New Zealand is still languishi...
3 Apr 2007
Oxfam assessing needs of communities affected by Solomons’ TsunamiInternational agency Oxfam has started its response to help people affected by the tsunami triggered by yesterday’s (Monday, April 2) earthquake.
Oxfam’s Solomon Islands Disaster Management Office...
3 Apr 2007
Oxfam appeals for support for tsunami survivors in the SolomonsOxfam New Zealand is seeking funding to support their response to the devastation caused by yesterday's tsunami in the Solomon Islands (Monday April 2, 2007).
"Oxfam's number one priority is to en...
2 Apr 2007
Oxfam urges NZ government to walk the talk on climate changeIn its first in-depth statement on climate change, Oxfam New Zealand has called on the government to put its carbon where its mouth is by establishing an overarching framework for climate change polic...
28 Mar 2007
Nias quake two years on – progress made but greater focus on economic development is needed
Gunung Sitoli – Two years on from the quake, international aid agency Oxfam is helping 61,000 people affected by the quake in 60 villages.
Oxfam has spent over US$3.5 million on its...
28 Mar 2007
100 days after the Aceh floods, final clean-up before moving back homeKuala Simpang, Aceh, Indonesia -- After helping over 20,000 people to recover from the December floods in the worst affected district of Aceh Tamiang, the last displaced families are now moving b...
22 Mar 2007
Spread of Free Trade Agreements threatens poor countries
Rich countries are using regional and bilateral trade deals to attain concessions they cannot get at the World Trade Organisation (WTO), with serious implications for poor countries’ development, ...
21 Mar 2007
Oxfam urges Starbucks to honour its claims of support for Ethiopian coffee farmers
On the day of Starbucks’ Annual General Meeting, international aid agency Oxfam reminded shareholders that Starbucks continues to ignore calls from Ethiopian coffee farmers and exporters to sign a...
19 Mar 2007
Mozambique floods and Cyclone Favio update
Background and current situation
Recent floods in Mozambique and torrential rains brought by Cyclone Favio have displaced more than 165,000 people in the central regions of the country. After ...
13 Mar 2007
EU Development Ministers must act to stop unfair trade deals
European Development Ministers meeting in Bonn this week (March 12-13) must act to stop the unfair free trade deals between the EU and countries in Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific (ACP), otherwi...
9 Mar 2007
Trade trouble in the Pacific: Oxfam takes concerns to Pasifika
The European Commission is pushing the world’s poorest countries, including those in the Pacific, to sign Economic Partnership Agreements with the EU by the end of the year. As currently proposed,...
8 Mar 2007
Oxfam: Urgent International Action Needed to Boost UN Humanitarian Fund
International aid agency Oxfam today called on the international community to commit to strengthening the UN Central Emergency Response Fund’s (CERF) potential for providing quick, life-saving hum...
6 Mar 2007
Novartis PR offensive not enough to mask its aggressive tactics
Oxfam today said that the Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis is beginning to lose the battle to protect its own reputation as it continues to pursue a highly controversial court case against In...
2 Mar 2007
Nitin Sawhney on Access to Medicines
As an asthmatic, I remember watching “Panorama” a few years ago, which featured a comparative investigation into the relative benefits of a breathing technique known as “Buteyko” against conventio...
1 Mar 2007
Pacific trade negotiators urged to show strength and unity as talks with Europe heat up
As trade talks with the European Union enter a crucial phase, a broad group of non-state representatives from across the Pacific has demanded that trade negotiators achieve a fair agreement that b...
28 Feb 2007
Starbucks takes step towards recognizing Ethiopian rights to coffee names. Campaigners urge company to follow through
International agency Oxfam responded to a joint statement from coffee company Starbucks and the Government of Ethiopia in which Starbucks pledged not to oppose Ethiopian efforts to trademark its c...
28 Feb 2007
Scarlett Johansson joins Oxfam's fight against poverty
Actor Scarlett Johansson has joined international agency Oxfam in the fight against poverty following a life-changing trip to India and Sri Lanka. During her ten-day visit, Scarlett learned how in...
27 Feb 2007
Oxfam supporter Helen Mirren wins Academy Award
International relief and development agency Oxfam congratulates one of its most steadfast supporters, Helen Mirren, on her Oscar victory for her portrayal as Queen Elizabeth in "The Queen." Helen ...
23 Feb 2007
Video: Close Up explores Oxfam’s campaign to get Starbucks to honour its commitment to coffee farmers
Video:
Beans Battle
Close Up explores Oxfam’s campaign to get Starbucks to honour its commitment to coffee farmers.
Click here to watch the
Beans Battle v...
22 Feb 2007
Aid teams ready to respond as Cyclone Favio threatens more flooding in Mozambique
International agency Oxfam has aid teams in flood-affected Mozambique on high alert as very intense-category 4 Cyclone Favio approaches over the Indian Ocean, bringing with it the threat of more r...
22 Feb 2007
Scarlett Johansson visiting Oxfam’s health care, education and women’s programmes
Actor Scarlett Johansson is currently in India with international development agency Oxfam visiting its programmes with poor communities, the organisation said today.
Scarlett has met with chil...
22 Feb 2007
Oxfam concerned over rising harassment of campaigners addressing impact of oil and mining in Africa
The detention of another anti-corruption campaigner in Angola over the weekend highlights the vulnerable situation of people working for economic and social rights in Africa and the need for st...
21 Feb 2007
Middle East Quartet should end Palestinian Authority aid boycott and press Israel to release confiscated taxes
Increasing levels of poverty - health and education near melt-down - peace further away
International agency Oxfam said today that conditions in the Occupied Palestinian Territories were clo...
19 Feb 2007
Wellington celebrates the official opening of the Oxfam office in the capital
The honorable Luamanuvao Winnie Laban, Minister for the Community and Voluntary Sector and Oxfam’s Executive Director Barry Coates, hosted a ceremony to officially inaugurate the opening of Oxfam’...
16 Feb 2007
Eastern Chad must not become another Darfur
Attacks on civilians in eastern Chad must not be allowed to reach levels seen in Darfur, said international aid agency, Oxfam, today as the UN Security Council prepares to decide whether to send a...
15 Feb 2007
Vulture fund must not take cash from Zambia
In what is likely to be a welcome surprise to Zambia, the Royal Courts of Justice today ordered that the country should pay a much-reduced sum (to be decided next month) to US company, Donegal Int...
15 Feb 2007
Oxfam flies aid to flood-hit Mozambique
International agency Oxfam will fly out on Thursday February 15 with 14 tonnes of water, sanitation and hygiene equipment to help thousands of people displaced by floods in Mozambique. Heavy rains...
15 Feb 2007
Novartis’ legal action against India approaches climax
Novartis’ ongoing law suit against the Indian government, which sees the company challenging the country’s patent law to protect its own profits, enters a crucial phase in Chennai this Thursday (1...
14 Feb 2007
Goldenhorse's Kirsten Morrell puckers up for Oxfam
Goldenhorse singer Kirsten Morrell today showed where her heart was on Valentine's Day by puckering up and adding her lips to Oxfam's Chocolate Kiss petition outside Nestlé's Auckland headquarters...
13 Feb 2007
Oxfam assists communities affected by Jakarta floods
International agency Oxfam has started its response to help people affected by flooding in the greater Jakarta area since February 1, 2007.
It is estimated that more than 300,000 people have be...
9 Feb 2007
Oxfam gets sweet over Valentine
If you really want to show your love this Valentine’s Day, Oxfam suggests a gift of chocolate that means as much to your beloved as it does to the people who grew the cocoa. This year, give Fairtr...
7 Feb 2007
European aid to Palestine wasted in bank charges
Over a million euros a month of European aid to Palestine wasted in bank charges.
Oxfam calls on European governments to end 'aid fiasco'
International agency Oxfam today revealed that ...
29 Jan 2007
Humanitarian agencies warn Darfur operations approaching breaking point
Aid agencies today warned the enormous humanitarian response in Darfur will soon be paralysed unless African and global leaders at the AU Summit take urgent action to end rising violence against c...
27 Jan 2007
Extra US aid to Afghanistan must be spent on development, not just to support military campaigns
International aid agency Oxfam today welcomed the US Government’s promise of extra aid to Afghanistan but warned the money had to be spent across the country on key development priorities, rather ...
26 Jan 2007
UN must not abandon the Democratic Republic of Congo, Oxfam warns
International aid agency Oxfam today welcomed UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo and urged UN member states not to abandon the war-torn country in the wak...
26 Jan 2007
Oxfam: Beware the fine print - new trade offers could amount to nothing
New offers from the world's biggest trading powers may not be the breakthroughs they are presented as, warned international agency Oxfam today ahead of a World Trade Organisation (WTO) meeting on ...
20 Jan 2007
Oxfam takes part in the World Social Forum’s focus on Africa
The NGO has programmed various activities at the World Social Forum (WSF) concerning the Make Trade Fair, Rights in Crisis and Control Arms campaigns. Today inaugurates the seventh edition of the ...
19 Jan 2007
Stalled Ugandan peace talks put civilians at risks warns Oxfam
International agency Oxfam today warned that the stalled Ugandan peace talks between the government of Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) were in danger of causing a resurgence of violenc...
18 Jan 2007
Oxfam recruits young people for change
Oxfam International is recruiting 300 young people from around the world to take part in its three year youth development program.
The program, known as the Oxfam International Youth Partnersh...
17 Jan 2007
Oxfam volunteers work around the clock whilst thousands dance in the New Year at Rhythm & Vines
15,000 people danced in the New Year at Rhythm & Vines in Gisborne. 182 musicians and performers including Shapeshifter, Kora and the soulful Hollie Smith wowed the crowds and international ac...
16 Jan 2007
Video clip: Radio show in Vanuatu is educating people about safe sex
TV3 travelled to Vanuatu to see first-hand how a radio show funded by Oxfam is educating people about sex and sexually transmitted infections.
Watch the video clip
Further informati...
16 Jan 2007
Video clip: TV3 visit Vanuatu to find out how Oxfam is supporting safe water projects
There is no shortage of water in Vanuatu, the problem is most of it is not safe enough to drink.
This year Oxfam New Zealand is working on water and sanitation pojects in the country includin...
15 Jan 2007
Somali organisations report of bombings targeting innocent civilians
Oxfam is receiving reports from its partner organisations in Somalia that nomadic herdsmen have been hit in recent bombing raids. According to the reports from local organisations in Afmadow distr...
9 Jan 2007
Trade negotiations in the Pacific heat up: Exchange of open letters between the EU and Oxfam
Since the collapse of World Trade Organisation talks in July 2006, vulnerable Pacific governments are coming under increasing pressure to negotiate trade deals with powerful countries and regions ...
26 Dec 2006
Tsunami two years on – a great deal achieved but more to be done says Oxfam
Two years on from the tsunami, international development agency Oxfam is helping 1.2 million people affected by the disaster.
Oxfam has spent NZ$325m, 95 per cent of the NZ$342m it has receiv...
22 Dec 2006
Somalia: Oxfam and partners work hand in hand to alleviate suffering after worst floods in decades
Hundreds of thousands of people are at risk in Somalia's flooded crisis areas because of severe water shortages, internal displacement, food insecurity and the threat of escalating violence, accor...
18 Dec 2006
New violence in Darfur and Chad causes evacuation of aid workers
Darfur: New violence threatens world’s largest aid response. Half a million people increasingly vulnerable after evacuations of more than 250 staff in ten days. Ceasefire desperately needed, sa...
16 Dec 2006
New Zealanders join international call for Starbucks to play fair
Activists in New Zealand demonstrated today outside Starbucks stores in Auckland and Wellington to protest against Starbucks' refusal to recognise the rights of Ethiopian coffee farmers, as part o...
15 Dec 2006
Don’t be a chicken, get involved with Oxfam this holiday season!
Chickens are flying high, once again leading the pack of Oxfam Unwrapped “funusual” gift ideas. Scott Young, Oxfam’s Direct Marketing Manager said, “Goats have been neck and neck, but no ma...
13 Dec 2006
One year on from Hong Kong: Trade talks at standstill, no progress on development
One year on from the inconclusive World Trade Organisation (WTO) Ministerial in Hong Kong, negotiators have failed to make progress on agreeing trade reforms to promote development, and pressure o...
12 Dec 2006
Wear a Blue Ribbon for Peace, Democracy and the Rule of Law in Fiji
Oxfam is calling on New Zealanders to wear a blue ribbon in solidarity with their neighbours in Fiji where civil society groups are calling on all to show their support for peace and democracy by ...
11 Dec 2006
EU trade tactics likely to have devastating impact on Pacific’s poorest countries
Europe is playing hardball in its trade negotiations with small Pacific countries and refusing to accept their legitimate development concerns.
In a report released today,
Slamming the Door...
8 Dec 2006
U.N. votes for historic Arms Trade Treaty: Power of civil society demonstrated again
Work on an international Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) will begin immediately following a historic vote in the UN General Assembly yesterday, which saw 153 governments supporting the proposed Treaty to ...
8 Dec 2006
Oxfam Unwrapped: Chickens take flight
After dancing about on thousands of New Zealanders computer screens this week it’s not surprising that Oxfam has a new leader in the race for Christmas number one - chickens have flown into the le...
7 Dec 2006
Over 25,000 landless families in Aceh still waiting for new land and homes, Oxfam warns
Over 25,000 poor and landless families in Aceh, Indonesia are missing out on the rebuilding programme and have yet to be re-housed nearly two years after the tsunami washed away their homes and de...
5 Dec 2006
Bono's kite raises money for Oxfam
The generosity of an avid U2 fan has today seen $1,230 being donated to Oxfam New Zealand. Concert goer Claire Keam caught a kite released by U2's front man Bono during one of the band’s Auckland ...
4 Dec 2006
Philippines typhoon: Oxfam sends out aid experts to help staff on ground
Oxfam is sending out a team of public health aid workers to complement its staff on the ground in the central Philippines area hit by the super-typhoon of Friday, December 1.
Early reports fr...
2 Dec 2006
Oxfam calls on Starbucks to move forward on trademark issue
Oxfam welcomed Tuesday’s meeting between Starbucks CEO Jim Donald and Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, but urged the international coffee giant to stop dragging its feet before the holidays,...
1 Dec 2006
Oxfam warns: Pacific a new frontier for HIV/AIDS
Oxfam New Zealand today calls on Governments and civil society groups to tackle HIV/AIDS in the Pacific, a region seen as being a new frontier for the deadly disease. Particularly at risk is Papua...
29 Nov 2006
Oxfam helps New Zealand get behind award winning show
New Zealand actor Rawiri Paratene and Oxfam NZ are on a mission to bring award winning outdoor show Children of the Sea to Auckland Festival, AK07 next March.
Paratene helped create Children o...
28 Nov 2006
Bono's kite flies high for Oxfam
During their recent sell-out tour of New Zealand, U2's front man Bono released a bird-shaped kite during the singing of their hit single "Kite", which is now for sale on Trade Me (New Zealand's an...
27 Nov 2006
Oxfam Unwrapped: Goats on top, but who's going to finish at No.1?
It has been an eventful week for Oxfam’s funusual gifts, things are definitely heating up in the race to be number one.
Goats are still out in front, but chickens have eaten into their lead and...
27 Nov 2006
Seven million Afghan children missing an education, warns Oxfam
More than half of all Afghan children still do not go to school despite a five-fold increase in enrolments since 2001, according to a new report published today by international agency, Oxfam. The...
24 Nov 2006
November 25: Speak out against violence towards women
Violence against women is universal. It injures or kills one in three women across the world and is the biggest cause of injury and death to women worldwide.
November 25 marks the International...
20 Nov 2006
Oxfam Unwrapped catalogue of clever Christmas gifts: The competition is hotting up!
Goats are in the lead, followed closely by the Chickens.
Trees, Training a Farmer and Meals for 50 Kids are all tracking well, with Toilet making a good run of things from the rear.
The resu...
18 Nov 2006
Africa gets nothing but vague promises from climate change conference
An overwhelming lack of political ambition turned the UN conference on climate change into a disappointment today, with poor countries coming away with little more than vague promises to help thei...
17 Nov 2006
Continued violence in Chad could slash refugee water rations
Newly displaced say violence is worst in living memory
Emergency water supplies in eastern Chad are overstretched and may not be able to meet the needs of thousands of people fleeing fightin...
17 Nov 2006
More than 70,000 sign Oxfam petition calling on Starbucks
As of today over 70,000 people have taken Oxfam’s online action urging coffee giant Starbucks to review its position in relation to Ethiopia’s attempts to claim ownership of the country’s most fam...
16 Nov 2006
Tell us what you think: take our website survey
We’re always looking for ways to improve information about Oxfam's work to our supporters. Please help us to make these improvements by telling us what you think about the website and the monthly ...
16 Nov 2006
Nepalese peace agreement is a ray of hope for the poor
Oxfam welcomed the Nepalese historic peace agreement between the ruling seven-party alliance and the Maoists rebels and said this significant step heralds hope for the poor.
"Overcoming poverty...
15 Nov 2006
Rich countries betraying their obligations to help poor countries protect public health
Poor people in developing countries are still being denied cheaper life-saving medicines five years after world leaders signed a formal trade declaration to put health before profits.
In a rep...
15 Nov 2006
Cirque du Soleil: book your ticket now!
Limited tickets available - book yours now!
See Cirque’s latest show
VarekaiTM at the
Auckland
Showgrounds, Greenlane West, Auckland in January and February 2007.
Tickets are a...
15 Nov 2006
Development should be at the forefront of APEC meeting
Leaders from Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) countries should take the opportunity to push forward a development agenda at their meetings this week in Hanoi, said international agency Oxf...
14 Nov 2006
U2Charist to benefit Oxfam
The challenge to end world poverty takes on a new rock’n’roll twist this Friday. Auckland’s St Matthew’s in the City is hosting New Zealand’s first U2Charist – a service featuring the guitar drive...
13 Nov 2006
Urgent humanitarian aid delayed by violence in Chad
Thousands of families are fleeing their homes due to mounting violence in eastern Chad, requiring immediate humanitarian assistance that may be compromised by deteriorating security, warned Oxfam ...
10 Nov 2006
Oxfam urges Kiwis to hit the road
The reservation deadline to book a spot in Oxfam Trailwalker 2007 is three weeks away and people from around the country are already gearing up for New Zealand’s only charity ultrachallenge. Teams...
10 Nov 2006
Oxfam urges climate change action at UN conference
Failure to address climate change at UN conference in Nairobi would threaten centuries old way of life
Oxfam today warned that unchecked climate change could deal a crippling blow to a way o...
7 Nov 2006
Colin Firth: Starbucks Must Honour Ethiopian Farmers
News of another piece of corporate self-interest at the expense of the very poor is hardly headline stuff. And yet, on reading the paper this weekend, my jaded response was tempered with a certain...
4 Nov 2006
Oxfam Calls on Starbucks to Stop Bullying the Poor
Starbucks must respect Ethiopia’s right to choose its own path to development
Global coffee giant Starbucks has refused to move forward in negotiations with Ethiopia unless it’s on the company...
3 Nov 2006
Oxfam warns climate change hurting the poor
Climate change threatens those who can’t protect themselves warns Oxfam
In the build up to Climate Action Day and the UN conference on the Kyoto Protocol, Oxfam reveals who the victims a...
30 Oct 2006
World Food Summit: act now on global hunger or go home
Oxfam says if action on global hunger isn't forthcoming then it's time to end the talk-fests
International agency Oxfam today issued a stark challenge to over 100 countries meeting in Rome at t...
27 Oct 2006
Control Arms campaign notches up significant achievement
Overwhelming majority of world's governments vote to start work on an international Arms Trade Treaty
Today at the United Nations, the majority ...
27 Oct 2006
Students go hungry for a cause
Shocking world poverty statistics became a reality for 400 students and teachers at Kowhai Intermediate today at New Zealand’s inaugural Oxfam School Hunger Banquet.
The twist soon became appa...
27 Oct 2006
Oxfam Responds to National Coffee Association and Starbucks
In response to Oxfam’s announcement that global coffee giant Starbucks has opposed a plan by Ethiopia to gain more control over its coffee trade, Starbucks claimed that it has never filed an oppos...
26 Oct 2006
Starbucks opposes Ethiopia’s plan to trademark specialty coffee names that could bring farmers an estimated $88 million annually
Oxfam urges company to review strategy and
sign licensing agreement
Global coffee giant Starbucks has opposed a plan by Ethiopia to gain more control over its coffee trade and a large...
25 Oct 2006
Oxfam welcomes New Zealand's offer on Pacific labour mobility
Oxfam New Zealand welcomes the New Zealand government's announcement today to open up more opportunities for Pacific workers seeking seasonal work in New Zealand. The seasonal labour scheme will n...
24 Oct 2006
Nobel Peace Prize Laureates urge governments to vote for an Arms Trade Treaty at the UN tomorrow
On the eve of a historic vote to begin work on an Arms Trade Treaty in the UN General Assembly's First Committee, 15 Nobel Peace Prize Laureates including the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Oscar Arias...
24 Oct 2006
Pacific Leaders agree Economic Partnership Agreements with the EU must be development orientedPacific ACP Leaders have strongly reiterated the call for any Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union to be “development oriented” as the Region enters a critical stage in the neg...
17 Oct 2006
This Christmas, wrap up a donkey, ribbon a long-drop, gift a goat...
Oxfam's alternative gift catalogue, Oxfam Unwrapped, is back - thanks to the overwhelming popularity of its gifts with the New Zealand public last Christmas. Quirky but life-saving gifts will agai...
17 Oct 2006
Video: On The Aid Trail with Cambell Live and Oxfam New Zealand
Last year, New Zealanders bought 16,000 Oxfam Unwrapped gifts of goats, chickens, safe water and other life-saving ideas that are helping people living in poverty to have a better life. As the gif...
14 Oct 2006
Oxfam welcomes Ban Ki-moon as new UN Secretary General
International aid agency Oxfam International welcomed the news that South Korean foreign minister Ban Ki-moon is to become the next Secretary General of the United Nations.
“Oxfam congratulate...
10 Oct 2006
MySpace announces largest philanthropic program with Darfur campaign
Leading Social Networking Site Partners with 20 Bands and Oxfam to Raise Awareness and Funds for Humanitarian Crisis in Sudan
MySpace.com, the world’s leading lifestyle portal, today announc...
6 Oct 2006
Get heard: your chance to have your say and be published
Get Thinking. Get Writing. Get Heard.
This is your opportunity to have your thoughts and passions, concerns and convictions published in a book titled ‘Dear New Zealand’.
Open to anyone bet...
5 Oct 2006
Oxfam warns proposed new EU trade policy is 'development blind'The European Union's new external trade plans presented by Peter Mandelson today in Brussels will pose a serious threat to poor countries' development if implemented, said international agency Oxfam.
...
4 Oct 2006
Pakistan earthquake one year on: 1.8 million people still in temporary shelter as snow falls
: Earthquake survivors at risk as Himalayan winter starts early – At least 1.8 million people still in temporary shelter as snow falls
One year on from the Pakistan earthquake on 8 October 2005...
2 Oct 2006
Global arms industry exploiting major loopholes in arms regulations
New report from the Control Arms Campaign: Amnesty International, Oxfam International, IANSA
The globalisation of the arms industry has opened up major loopholes in all current arms export regu...
27 Sep 2006
EU-ACP free trade deals are unfair and need comprehensive review
The European Union must urgently change its negotiating position on free trade deals with some of the world’s poorest countries, or risk sinking them further into poverty.
On the fourth anniver...
26 Sep 2006
NZ bands sign up to Oxjam - a month long party against poverty
Oxfam New Zealand is proud to announce the launch of the first, the biggest, the longest, the most ambitious nationwide party against poverty New Zealand has ever seen - Oxjam.
Spanning the mo...
22 Sep 2006
Global military spending set to top Cold War high as conflict causes record hunger
Oxfam calls on UN member states to support an Arms Trade Treaty
Global military spending is set to break the previous Cold War record by the end of 2006, warns international aid agency Oxfam t...
18 Sep 2006
Kiwi book buyers can fight poverty and injustice
Kiwi book lovers visiting new local online bookstore Goodbooksnz.co.nz will be contributing to the work of Oxfam New Zealand.
Goodbooksnz.co.nz customers make this contribution at no cost to t...
15 Sep 2006
Drop the debt: Many countries, including PNG, are missing out on benefits of debt cancellation
by Barry Coates, Executive Director, Oxfam New Zealand
The real costs of cancelling the debts of impoverished countries have been tiny compared to the massive benefits. But many countries, incl...
9 Sep 2006
Rio meeting must set new tone for trade talks
The meeting of the Group of 20 developing countries, and invited guests this weekend in Rio de Janeiro must reorientate global trade talks towards development, said international agency Oxfam toda...
2 Sep 2006
Public Not Private – The Key to Ending Global Poverty
Classrooms with teachers, clinics with nurses, running taps and working toilets: these basic public services are key to ending global poverty, according to a new report from Oxfam and WaterAid....
1 Sep 2006
Oxfam calls on world leaders to lift Palestinian aid freeze at Stockholm conference
International agency Oxfam is calling on donor governments, meeting in Stockholm today, to resume international aid to the Palestinian Authority in order to address the deteriorating humanitarian ...
1 Sep 2006
US must reform agricultural subsidy program
Cotton Subsidies Violate Trade Agreements and Hurt Poor Country Farmers
Brazil's decision today to begin moves toward trade-related retaliation against the US is a direct result of the US fail... |
