Just hours after President Obama’s re-election was confirmed, the United States backed a resolution in the First Committee of the United Nations to recommence negotiations on the world’s first legally binding Arms Trade Treaty – an historic international instrument to regulate the $70 billion global trade in weapons. It was a joyous moment for the […]
This week, we meet Teresa, one of the refugee women that RSS has helped to set up a home-based childcare centre. Here, Teresa talks about the challenges and satisfaction of keeping vulnerable children safe.
ChangeCourse 2012 has now well and truly kicked in, requiring participants to take a leap of faith in more ways than one...
If you live in Victoria and love roots music from around the world, you’re in luck: we have four double passes to the Australasian Worldwide Music Expo (AWME) to give our supporters!
Oxfam supporters made the most of their opportunity to meet Federal Member for Moreton Graham Perrett at his weekend mobile office last Saturday in southside Brisbane. Newly enrolling into the electorate, Emily Cowlrick and Jessica Wheelock took the chance to update their electoral roll details while also presenting their new MP with copies of Oxfam’s […]
This is the first in a series of blog posts from the scene of ChangeCourse 2012, where young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people from around Australia have come together to work with Oxfam on bringing about positive change in their communities and themselves.
In part 2 of her interview, Yasmin tells us more about RSS's work with refugee women, supporting them as they rebuild their confidence and find a place in their new communities.
Dr. Robert Mtonga from Zambia shares his reflections on the need for a global arms trade treaty. Here are four scenarios that I have lived through that have motivated me to campaign for an Arms Trade Treaty to control the deadly trade in weapons. Picture a boy, aged 13 years and full of naivety; he […]
From the food crisis in West Africa to drought in the US, from receding Arctic ice to a dying Great Barrier Reef, a changing climate has never felt more real. Over the next two weeks the Australian Government has an important choice to make. We’re rallying our supporters on Twitter to help make sure it […]
Income from oil, gas and minerals is often one of the greatest sources of wealth for developing countries. But Governments and people living in these countries (about 3.5 billion) often do not see the benefits. The Government of Zambia believes it is owed up to a $1 billion in unpaid taxes, from copper production. According […]
