Oxfam blogs

The Oxfam blog brings you the latest posts from our growing international portfolio.

From the goat's mouth! Check out our Oxfam Unwrapped blog, which highlights some of our gifts with a difference as well as looking at the impact they have on people's lives.

The From Poverty to Power blog is written and maintained by Duncan Green, Head of Research for Oxfam GB and author of the book 'From Poverty to Power'. It is a personal reflection intended to provoke debate and conversations about development.

The food crisis in the Horn of Africa is threatening the livelihoods of over 13 million people. Oxfam New Zealand Executive Director Barry Coates writes from Kenya where Oxfam is providing people with life-saving water, food shelter and sanitation. Read Barry's blog.

Lack of controls on the arms trade fuels conflict, poverty and human rights abuses worldwide. 2000 people a day are killed because of armed violence and 26 million people have been forcibly displaced because of armed conflict. Luke Roughton, Oxfam New Zealand’s Control Arms Coordinator, writes from the Arms Trade Treaty Negotiations in New York.

Oxfam New Zealand Executive Director Barry Coates joined world leaders at the Fourth UN Conference on Least Developed Countries (LDCs) in Istanbul, Turkey. The conference sought to address the problems hindering the development of the world’s poorest 48 countries.

World leaders gathered at the UN climate change conference in Cancun, Mexico from November 29 - December 10, 2010 to continue negotiations for a global climate change treaty. Oxfam New Zealand Executive Director Barry Coates was there. Read his blog for news and views from Cancun!

Civil Engineer Charles Bennett is in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, working for Oxfam New Zealand as a water engineer on a Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) project. Read his blog Water for Bougainville on the TV3 news website.