International Day for Disaster Reduction: 13 October 2012
International Day for Disaster Reduction is an opportunity to celebrate how communities are reducing their risk to disasters, and to raise awareness about the importance of being prepared.
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The state of food insecurity in the world
The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2012 presents new estimates of undernourishment based on a revised and improved methodology. The new estimates show that progress in reducing hunger during the past 20 years has been better than previously believed, and that, given renewed efforts, it may be possible to reach the MDG hunger […]
Why Tina is joining Eat Local Feed Global
“I got an email from Oxfam encouraging me to have a chat to my friends. About food. Over a meal. It was too good an opportunity to pass up so I registered to my own Eat Local Feed Global meal.” More than 150 people have so far registered to host their own Eat Local Feed […]
War and peace: the story behind Rajana’s bombshell jewellery
When the manager of Oxfam Shop's Fremantle store went to Cambodia recently, she visited the producers of our popular 'Doves of peace' bombshell jewellery range, Rajana. This is their amazing story.
Time to stop the global land rush
GET OUT You’ve got two minutes to get your things and get out. Stop crying. There’s nothing you can do. Say goodbye to your home. It’s gone. Not what you would expect from an Oxfam campaign? Sadly, as banks and private investors scramble to buy land in the developing world, stories of poor farmers and […]
Tell the Australian Human Rights Commission a story
Are you passionate about human rights? Can you tell a good story? Do you have an iPhone? The Australian Human Rights Commission is recruiting up to 10 people for the Tell Me A Story program. Participants will work with the Commission to produce short videos about ordinary people taking extraordinary human rights actions. You don’t […]
Making a difference in Burkina Faso
In a video blog she recorded while in Burkina Faso for Oxfam recently, former Democrats leader Natasha Stott Despoja describes her visit to Koutoula Yarce village, where she saw a cash-for-work program in action and met an amazing woman called Awa.
Maria Loretha and the sorghum solution: part 2
In the second part of her interview, Indonesian lawyer-turned-farmer Maria Loretha talks about sorghum's many benefits and its potential as a solution to food insecurity.
What does Australia bring to the UN table?
Australia’s bid for the UN Security Council looms large over Julia Gillard’s trip to the UN General Assembly in New York. The Prime Minister and her delegation will no doubt be in for a hand shaking, elevator pitching frenzy as Australia seeks to tie up support for the vote next month. Much of the discussion […]
Maria Loretha and the sorghum solution: part 1
"Because they called me crazy, I wanted to prove their words were wrong." In part one of a two-part interview, Maria Loretha talks about the challenges of going from being a big-city lawyer in Java to a small-scale sorghum farmer in Flores.
