Rising sea levels and more frequent king tides on the small Pacific Island nation of Tuvalu are causing coastal erosion and salinating the groundwater, making it hard for Islanders like Nui Loane to grow their traditional foods.
In the past ten months, a country that initially faced extreme poverty has dealt with a devastating earthquake, heavy rains and storms, and now a fast-spreading cholera epidemic. For outsiders, Haiti’s recovery seems frustratingly slow. For organizations working here, the question is where to start?
Our Climate Tracker Phil reports from the first day of the 2010 UN Climate Summit in Cancun, Mexico, with a sense of both optimism and frustration.
Since 2007 we've been working with the European Union and partners to help Palestinian olive farming co-operatives gain Fair Trade certification and maximise the economic potential of their crops.
Mary Robinson, Honorary President of Oxfam International outlines her reasons (and hopes) for attending the climate negotiations currently underway in Cancun, Mexico.
Dok Majok, a volunteer working in the WA Oxfam office, had a chance to tell his story of climate impacts in his home country of Sudan to the Member for Fremantle Melissa Parke, and the Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd.
We sat down with Australia's Ambassador for Climate Change, Louise Hand to ask her a set of questions regarding the 2010 UN Climate Summit in Cancun. What would you ask Louise?
Whilst many people remain in camps others, as the floodwater recedes, are going home. In a village in Khaipur a group of women reveal what helped them return home.
Who needs to take responsibility to ensure that garment workers are not assigned to a life of poverty? According to former child factory worker, Nazma Akhter, not only local manufacturers, but also Western buyers must step up to the challenge.
Oxfam Global Ambassadors Scarlett Johansson, Gael García Bernal and Bill Nighy have joined Oxfam to call on international negotiators to protect the world’s poor from climate catastrophe at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun
