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The latest news and media releases from Oxfam Aotearoa

Unregulated arms trade

A robust Arms Trade Treaty would prevent another Syria

Recent events in the Middle East and North Africa demonstrate the tragic impact of the unregulated arms trade and the …
Horn of Africa

International humanitarian system must go local to cope

The international humanitarian response system will fail to cope with the expected rise in the number of people exposed to …
A woman of courage Virisila

A woman of courage

The leader of the Fiji Women’s Rights Movement, Virisila Buadromo, has been awarded the prestigious Women Have Wings Courage Award …
Landslide buries two villages in Highlands of PNG

Landslide buries two villages in Highlands of PNG

A landslide several hundred metres wide and one kilometre long struck the Highlands of Papua New Guinea yesterday around 7am …
An elderly man wades past a stranded vehicle and a mosque while evacuating the flooded town of Nowshera. Photo: REUTERS/Adrees Latif, courtesy of alertnet.org

G20 inequality rises as trickle down effect fails poorest

Inequality has increased in 14 of 18 G20 countries since 1990 as economic growth has too often failed to benefit …
An elderly man wades past a stranded vehicle and a mosque while evacuating the flooded town of Nowshera. Photo: REUTERS/Adrees Latif, courtesy of alertnet.org

Failure to respond to early signs of famine costs lives and money

As the warning signs of a new food crisis appear in West Africa, Oxfam and Save the Children have looked …
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From crop to cup in Papua

Kitchen table coffee is helping women in remote Papua …
South Sudan struggling in face of growing refugee crisis

South Sudan struggling in face of growing refugee crisis

Six months since South Sudan’s independence, the world’s newest nation is struggling to cope with a major refugee crisis and …