Category: Campaigning for change
Stay up to date with Oxfam’s various campaigns.
Whose aid is it anyway?
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Today Oxfam published a report that looks at a worrying trend we’re seeing in international assistance: the militarization and politicisation of aid. The report entitled “Whose aid is it anyway?” looks at how key donors are now going down the route of allocating aid dollars heavily based on their military, security and geopolitical interests. It also looks at how donors are too often spending aid on security-driven projects that have proved expensive, ineffective and sometimes dangerous for their intended beneficiaries. Read more »
Crisis of poor quality medicines being used as an excuse to push up prices for poor
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A new report from Oxfam, “Eye on the ball” discusses how poor-quality medicines pose a serious threat to patients and public health in developing countries. The World Health Organisation estimates nearly one-third of all countries lack adequate drug-regulatory capacity to monitor medicines safety. Read more »
Comparing US states to countries
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Which earns more: the state of Wisconsin or Finland? This new tool enables you to compare the GDP of US states vs their nearest equivalent country. Read more »
Oxfam’s campaigns – what you thought
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In 2010, we asked you what you thought about our campaign work. Here are the results. Read more »
Score the goals comic book
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The UN have released a comic book aimed at teaching young people about the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Read more »
Oxfam Summer: Falls Festival, Lorne
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The Oxfam Summer Team recently saw in the New Year at Lorne’s Falls Festival with our enthusiastic campaigners educating festival goers about the impacts of climate change and what they could do to make a difference. Read more »
Climate campaigning with Bon Jovi
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Climate Change campaigners hits the pavements at the Bon Jovi Concerts in Sydney over the weekend. Teaming up with the Bon Jovi Soul Foundation the idea was to raise awareness about homelessness as well as the impacts that climate change is having on people in the Pacific right now. Read more »
From Gujarat, India to Australia
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Oxfam intern Praful Aghara had the chance to discuss his country’s plight with Australia’s Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd. Read more »
Delivering your climate message to Minister Combet
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Last week we asked you to send in your climate change ‘message in a bottle’, which were delivered to government delegations at the global talks in Cancun. We also took your messages direct to the Australian government – here’s what Climate Change Minister Greg Combet had to say as he read over your thoughts, requests and demands. Read more »
The Nepalese impacts of climate change
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Helena Christensen visits Nepal with Oxfam to witness the impacts of climate change Read more »
