Meeting every week, sharing experiences and learning campaigning skills, Erica, Yolande, Barb, Tina, Tim, Rena and Agus are the Melbourne GROW team. Together they are a group of Oxfam supporters committed to campaigning for a future where everyone has enough to eat. Every Thursday for the last 6 weeks, the team has come together for […]
Seeds are the first link in the food chain. Yet women seed breeders are invisible in the industrial model of food production and in intellectual property regimes. The roots of food and gender justice lie in keeping seeds in women’s hands and recognizing women’s knowledge of biodiversity. Health and nutrition begin with food, and food […]
With a visit to Perth last week by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta’s for the Australia United States Ministerial Consultations (AUSMIN) defence talks, Oxfam, Amnesty, Act for Peace, Action Aid and Medical Association for the Prevention of War seized the opportunity to call on the US to help […]
If you can imagine 50000 people, an enormous stadium, the biggest band in the world, crazy lights, pyrotechnics… and people dressed as carrots and tacos, then you can only begin to imagine the weekend of concerts that Coldplay invited Oxfam to in Sydney. Coldplay, as most of you would be aware, are one of Oxfam’s […]
Last month Oxfam launched a campaign calling on the World Bank to freeze their large land acquisitions for 6 months. Why? Because banks and private investors are buying up land in the developing world at an alarming rate, often resulting in people losing their homes and the land they grow their food on. Over the […]
In our latest blog post about keeping South Africa's most vulnerable children safe, the irrepressible Nokuthula talks about running her creche with "power, passion and love".
Some of you were lucky enough to attend our screening of The Island President at this year’s Human Rights Arts and Film Festival, featuring President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives in his fight against climate change. Since then, Mr Nasheed has been imprisoned and writes from his jail cell about the charges placed against him: […]
Bonnie Hook brings us her third - and final - ChangeCourse blog post and emotions are running high!
The other morning I spoke with some villagers who live in the district surrounding the Ching Luh factory. They told me about a local hustler who promotes factory recruitment. Potential applicants are asked for money ranging from 2-2.5 million rupiah (equivalent to two months of a factory workers’ full time wage). The hustler demanded upfront […]
Oxfam Australia has welcomed the Government’s intention to join a second phase of the Kyoto Protocol. The Kyoto Protocol, whose initial seven-year commitment period expired this year, provided the foundations for a rules-based, global response to climate change. Its continuation, by way of a second commitment period, provided the necessary legal and political bridge to the […]
