A million refugees urgently need shelter, food and water
Media reactions
16 November 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE - International agency Oxfam has doubled its cholera response since the first cases were confirmed in October in Haiti. Oxfam's water, sanitation and hygiene education programs are now...
12 November 2010
About Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) and innovative financing for development Luc Lampriere of Oxfam International said: “We are pleased that France, as the next G20 chair, has been mandated...
11 November 2010
Reacting to business leaders’ proposals on climate change, Jeremy Hobbs, Executive Director of Oxfam International said: “Unlike the G20, the B20 get the urgency of climate change. If we all are to...
5 November 2010
The International Monetary Fund has announced that its Executive Board has approved a package of governance reforms intended to give emerging economies a bigger say in the institution.Oxfam...
26 October 2010
Oxfam’s Water and Sanitation advisor Raphael Mutiku said:“Medical care and hospitals are well set up and we’re really getting a foothold against this disease. There is still a huge amount of work to...
24 October 2010
Oxfam's health advisor Raphael Mutiku said:
"We are obviously concerned about the spread of cholera to Port-au-Prince. However, earthquake victims living in and around the capital...
15 October 2010
Consuelo Lopez-Zuriaga, Oxfam Head of Humanitarian Campaigns, said,
"The Friends of Democratic Pakistan seem to have forgotten what true friendship is all about at a time when flood-hit...
13 October 2010
Rome:Duncan Pruett: Oxfam policy advisor on land“Good ideas have been put forward, but the question remains whether UN member states will take responsibility for turning these proposals into actions...
9 October 2010
Oxfam spokesperson Mark Fried said: “Thousands of people have flown in from all over the world for these meetings, and there’s been no movement on any issues of significance. There’s been a...
8 October 2010
Oxfam spokesperson Elizabeth Stuart said:
IMF reform
"IMF governance reform should not be held hostage to the fight over exchange rates. Emerging markets need their rightful place at the table...