In 2007-8 the infant mortality rate dropped in Brazil saving 1,700 babies from early death compared to the year before. The same year 14,000 young Brazilians between 14 and 19 years old were killed as a result of armed violence. This brutal trend is essentially shooting down Brazil’s hard won development achievements, and begs the question – development for what?
Australian fashion pioneer Cue determined to walk the talk on labour rights.
What are your plans for 24 March? Join us for National Close The Gap Day and help end Indigenous health inequality.
Dr Brad Pettitt, electric bike rider, aid worker, professor of sustainability, and probably the coolest Mayor Fremantle ever had, is rolling up his trousers and helping Oxfam out yet again.
Oxfam's involvement in the Melbourne Sustainability Festival enabled thousands of people to truly understand the plight of people in Bangladesh as they struggle with the impacts of climate change, writes Liyan Gao
On Tuesday night, the Oxfam Summer Team attended the One Just World forum in Federation Square, Melbourne as part of the Sustainable Living Festival
by Ben Murphy, Humanitarian Advocacy Officer, Oxfam Australia. Ben will be blogging and tweeting (@Ben_Murphy83) from insude the UN Arms Trade Treaty conference all next week. Once again, I’m joining a group of campaigners from around the world for a one-week session of the negotiations towards an Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) at the UN in […]
We can do something – surely we can do something. It is only a matter of money that Tuvalu doesn’t have. Florent Baarsch talks to Tataua Pese - climate change and disaster management officer with the Red Cross, Tuvalu.
Florent Baarsch updates with fresh photos of the rising tide in Tuvalu
Maina Talia, climate change officer for the Christian Church of Tuvalu, explains the cultural and societal impacts of the king tide on the people of Tuvalu
