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Article from Oxfam International: http://www.oxfam.org/en/programs/campaigns/index.htm
Published: 06 December 2005

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Image: An Oxfam referree gave a symbolic yellow card to giant puppets of world leaders dressed in football uniforms, outside the WTO Ministerial meeting in Geneva, June 2006, as a warning to world leaders to make trade fair. Credit: Charlie Powell/ Oxfam
An Oxfam referree gave a symbolic yellow card to giant puppets of world leaders dressed in football uniforms, outside the WTO Ministerial meeting in Geneva, June 2006, as a warning to world leaders that they must make trade fair. Credit: Charlie Powell/ Oxfam
Working with a global team of campaigners and allied organizations, Oxfam is striving for positive change for the poor.
Oxfam campaigns for policy and practice change on fair trade, conflict and humanitarian response, climate change, and on issues such as debt relief, the global arms trade, poverty reduction and universal basic education. Please support our work on these issues:





Image: Men cultivating in Ndian subvillage, Endulen, Tanzania, following heavy rain. Credit: Geoff Sayer/ OxfamMake Trade Fair – World trade could end poverty for millions of people, but instead it's actually widening the gap between rich and poor. We have the potential to end poverty, only your voice is missing. Join Oxfam's global campaign to Make Trade Fair.

Image of twisted gun outside the UN, credit: Oxfam. The Control Arms Campaign is pushing for an international Arms Trade Treaty - join us now!Control Arms campaign – Thousands of people are killed, injured, raped, and forced to flee from their homes as a result of the unregulated global arms trade. The Control Arms campaign is calling for an international, legally-binding Arms Trade Treaty to ease the suffering caused by irresponsible weapons transfers. Join the Million Faces petition now.

Image: Children at a school in China campaign against poverty by standing up on World Poverty Day and wearing white bands. Credit: GCAPHealth and Education for All – At the July 2005 G8 meeting in Gleneagles, rich countries agreed to cancel most of the debt of 40 poor countries and promised $50 billion more aid by 2010. Already this has changed lives. Oxfam wants to ensure that the money promised back in 2005 helps to deliver essential services like health, education and water.

Image: Climbing across a narrow makeshift bridge is the only way villagers can travel back and forth across the flood water to Bahadurpur in the Darbhanga region (India). Credit: Mani Kumar/ OxfamClimate change – Climate change is happening, and it is increasing poverty and vulnerability among the world’s poorest people – those who are least responsible for the problem and are least able to bear its effects. Climate change is a challenge to current models of economic growth: all countries will have to find low-carbon paths to development. Take action on climate change now!

Oxfam International has campaigning and advocacy staff in the following locations, focused on these international organizations:

 

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