Australia has particular responsibility to both reduce its own emissions but also support Pacific Island communities to adapt to the impacts of climate change they’re now facing. Watch the first in our series of The Faces of Climate Change - Ursula Rakova from the Carteret Islands.
The northern Philippines was battered by Typhoon Megi earlier this week, with 11 deaths and 16 injuries reported so far from the storm. Oxfam is on the ground assessing the emergency needs of those affected.
The climate negotiations came to a close last week in China and the closing plenary of the talks was not without drama. Delayed for over an hour, head negotiators huddled around the hall desperately seeking common ground, reports Phillip Ireland.
Part 2 in our series of posts from a unique village in Papua New Guinea that's built entirely on the Sepik River. The community there faces may health challenges, and Oxfam is helping to reduce the risk of disease.
As the UN met to decide if the world could halve extreme poverty in five years, 1000 students came together to hear from a variety of speakers working around the world to end poverty. Carrie O'Connor was there.
Here in the Oxfam office, we're having fun with the new iPhone/iPad app from Save the Children.
Oxfam International has produced a new report, Brokers without Borders: How illicit arms brokers can slip through gaps in the Pacific and international arms control system to examine the problem of illicit arms brokering.
Last month, students, teachers and parents at a Brunswick primary school joined with activists from FairWear to demand an end to exploitation in the Australian garment industry.
Papua New Guinea has been one of the main recipients of Australian aid for more than 20 years. Yet in all of this time the percentage of population without clean water has remained at a pathetic 60%. Only two in five people have access to clean water – in a country that is closer to Australia than New Zealand.
This week on 3things we paid homage to environmental 'eggsellence' and 'fishy' innovation. We also wondered what it might be like to spend years in after school detention.
