Today I want to talk a bit about why unions are important for workers like me. I became a member of my union because it pays attention to the situation of workers and their rights, as well as their obligations. I also feel that I’ve been able to learn many things since participating in union activities. For example, I’ve learnt that once the company has made a regulation on our rights it can’t just take those rights away again or erase them.
Zulfiquar Ali Haider is a public health engineer working for Oxfam in flood-hit northern Pakistan. He is in Swat - one of the worst-hit areas - and this is his eyewitness account.
After losing my job, my everyday routine has been filled with activities which might ordinarily be carried out by women. Every morning I bathe my child, I change his clothes, I feed him. I even go to the local Posyandu a clinic for infant and maternity health, to have him weighed and receive his immunisation. I carry out all these tasks with great happiness. But to be truthful, I also feel a bit ashamed when I face my neighbours, whose children are all cared for by their mothers. But there’s not much we can do as like it or not my wife is the one who still holds a job.
As the election looms tell the political parties what 3 things you’d most like them to have in their climate change policies that would really make a difference in tackling climate change.
Oxfam staff member Rebecca Wynn attempts to reach Pakistan's Swat region amidst flooding and heavy rain, and offers a glimpse of the struggle currently facing aid workers in the region.
A field report from Pakistan, with video. By Neva Khan, Pakistan Country Director for Oxfam Great Britain.
In the second of our posts on the digital election, we bring you some more interesting sites and systems utilising web-based technology to further the electoral experience.
Oxfam is a national supporter of Walk Against Warming, Australia’s biggest day of community action on climate change. This year the walk is happening on Sunday 15 August just one week before the election.
Podcast from Oxfam's Qasim Barech, giving an update on our response to the Pakistan floods
Andrew Hewett, Executive Director of Oxfam Australia, interviewed about Oxfam's response to the Pakistan Floods
