With increased frequency and severity of erratic weather events dominating our news, the weather process known as La Niña is getting a fair amount of the blame. Oxfam volunteer Roselina Press explains the phenomena and what we can expect in the future.
How much will waters rise, and what are the factors driving them up?
Oxfam is currently in Tuvalu to witness the king tide - the name given to the highest tides of the year – and talk to the people of this small island about the impact of climate change on their lives. Ask your questions here and we’ll investigate the issues that you want to know.
The Climate Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) speaks to the Pacific Calling Partnership about the harsh challenges facing the people of Kiribati, their efforts to adapt to climate change and the increasing threat to their community and culture.
Our Oxfam Summer team was out an about at the Melbourne Big Day out this year, despite the 38 degree heat.
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.
Before I fell ill, I hadn’t been feeling well enough to work for two or three days. But I still went to work because I wouldn’t be able to get sick leave without a certificate from the factory clinic.
New figures show that world prices are at their highest level since the organisation started measuring them in 1990 – topping prices seen in June 2008 at the height of the last global food crisis. Why is it happening and what can we do about it?
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.
Besides rural villages the floods devastated the lives and livelihoods of people living in urban areas like Aman Kot near Mingora, Swat. Here Oxfam together with local partner Lasoona are the only non-governmental organisations working with people who have lost everything.
