A year since we launched our East Africa appeal, we bring you this incredible video and accompanying photos capturing a Turkana community's delight as Oxfam builds them a borehole, bringing desperately needed fresh water to the village. Thank you to everyone who supported the appeal - your generosity helps change lives.
On 3rd July 2012 the Control Arms campaign handed over a global petition to the United Nation’s Secretary General Ban Ki-moon calling for a strong Arms Trade Treaty.
Oxfam Australia’s media coordinator for international projects and emergencies, Chee Chee Leung, has just landed in West Africa, and has filed her first dispatch from the field - Dakar, Senegal, to be precise.
On June 14th, I had the privilege to meet Roseline Presence and Getruida Baartman from the ‘Women on Farms Project’ in South Africa. The women spoke to 300 students from Methodist Ladies College at a high-school assembly to share how aid made a difference in their lives. The women described what it was like to […]
Today in New York, Control Arms campaigners handed over the Speak Out petition on the Arms Trade Treaty to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, signed by over 521,000 people worldwide. The petition calls on world governments involved in the Arms Trade Treaty Negotiations this month to secure a strong, effective treaty that prevents irresponsible arms […]
Oxfam Australia's Richard Simpson visited Niger recently, where he was struck by the innate resilience of the people in the face of the harsh food crisis they're enduring at the moment.
International artists including Kristin Davis, Keira Knightley, Yoko Ono, Scarlett Johansson, Coldplay, Tim Roth, Annie Lennox and Kevin Spacey have joined forces to demand governments take immediate action to help improve regulation of the international arms trade. The stars combined to send a joint letter to Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations urging […]
For two stormy winter days in Perth we were visited by two extraordinary women from South Africa on a whirlwind tour of the country visiting politicians, speaking to the media and being at the centre of public events for the both the GROW and Make Poverty History campaigns. Roseline Presence and Gertruida Barman’s inspiring stories […]
by Oxfam intern Jarrod Strauch On 27 January 1972, at just shy of one in the morning, four young Aboriginal men planted a beach umbrella on the lawn in front of Parliament House. They were there in response to Prime Minister William McMahon’s newly-announced policy on Aboriginal land rights – a policy which announced that while […]
After putting my 4 month year old son to bed on Saturday night, my head hits the pillow. I’m fast asleep. I sleep deeply, albeit highly attuned to any cries or screams from down the hall way, as is the way with life in my house these days. I awake. July 1st. Something has changed… […]
