Oxfam spokesman in Pakistan, Amil Khan spoke recently with Santilla Chingaipe from SBS, warning that the crisis in flood-affected Pakistan is far from over. In a new report, Oxfam says the situation could deteriorate if more aid is not provided, and that despite a massive aid effort, tens of thousands of people are still in […]
Since the first cases of cholera appeared in Haiti in October 2010, Oxfam has taken action to prevent it's spread. We've reached more than 700,000 people with sanitation and hygiene promotion programs since. Sophie Martin Simpson, Oxfam’s Monitoring and Evaluation Officer in Haiti, explains what we and local communities have achieved.
The Academy Awards may be over a month away still, but the Oscar nominations have just been announced and two green-themed documentaries have been nominated!
Investigations by environmental NGO Greenpeace East Asia have uncovered serious environmental degradation, including high concentrations of heavy metals, in Chinese manufacturing centres Xintang and Gurao.
Lan Marie reports from the island nation of Tuvalu, as the sea levels rise for the yearly king tide.
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.
In 2010, we asked you what you thought about our campaign work. Here are the results.
The UN have released a comic book aimed at teaching young people about the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Home-based workers are the hidden seams of the garment sector; while these workers are largely invisible, many parts of the garment industry would not hold together without their contribution. Yet home-based workers are vulnerable to exploitation and economic insecurity.
Follow the flies. That was the idea behind a simple but eye-opening public health lesson Oxfam brought to the people of Tapion, a small community in the Haitian hills of Petit Goave. This lesson helped change their lives in the wake of the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti a year ago.
