When retailers tell the truth about where their products come from, their honesty means better working conditions for the people who make the products. Oxfam has spent nearly two decades investigating the global clothing industry, uncovering a world where low wages, long hours of overtime and unsafe work practices are the norm. Our investigations are […]
By Paddy Cullen, Campaigns Coordinator (WA) Around 400 people crowded into the Subiaco Church of Christ last Tuesday (July 2) for a Q and A panel discussion on poverty and foreign aid with the shadow minister for foreign affairs Julie Bishop, Senator Scott Ludlam (Greens), Senator Louise Pratt (ALP) and Oxfam Chief Executive Dr Helen Szoke, who is […]
By Tori Sanderson, GROW Team Intern Every time you open your fridge and pantry, you step into the global food system. Don’t believe us? Oxfam’s Food Transformation report shows us that the decisions we make every day have global impacts on the climate, agriculture and food. In particular, our energy use can significantly contribute to […]
By Robin Narciso – an Oxfam volunteer in Phnom Penh What is extreme poverty? Living on under a dollar per day? When you see what the Mekong gives to its people, you understand how it is the river, not a couple of dollars that determines their survival. In Samphin, a small town in the Cambodian […]
By Tom Maker – Campaigns & Events Management Intern A question I often hear in relation to an issue as immense as global poverty is ‘What can I, as an individual person do?’ The issue of global poverty needs more individuals like Matt Napier. Matt, a landscape gardener by trade, along with his incredible wife […]
By Christina Hill, Mining Advocacy Coordinator Oxfam’s work shows that the impacts of mining are not gender neutral. Women often experience the negative impacts of mining more than men, and rarely receive the benefits that men do. What do these gendered impacts look like in Indonesia? Do small ‘cowboy’ mining companies – which are dominant […]
By Julie Goodwin – Oxfam GROW ambassador It’s no secret that keeping livestock for meat and dairy products is a contributing factor to global warming. So it naturally follows that less meat and dairy means less of the damaging greenhouse emissions that these products help to cause. However, meat and dairy are a deeply embedded […]
Reema lives in a single room in Lebanon with her parents and four siblings, in a building still under construction. There are piles of rubble all around, no windows, no comfort.
By Clancy Moore, GROW Campaign Coordinator Two months. That’s all it took for chocolate lovers and social justice activists to stand up to three of the biggest food companies in the world and create positive change in the food system. Mars, Mondelez and Nestle all agreed to look, listen, and act to make sure women […]
By Robin Narciso – an Oxfam volunteer in Phnom Penh How would you feel if you woke up in the morning to find out that your house AND your job has vanished into thin air? It’s hard for us to imagine in the “developed world”, but it happens every day in Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and […]
