essential services

Vanuatu: Celebrating education

Ian McClelland — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:43:57 +0000

Education is widely acknowledged as a passport to a better future. But for many families in the remote island communities of Vanuatu, education is too expensive.

Arms Transfer Decisions: Considering Development

Ian McClelland — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:07:06 +0000

The devastating impact of armed violence around the world is well known.

HIV and AIDS

Joel M Bassuk — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:42:04 +0000

HIV and AIDS have a huge impact on poverty because they affect millions of adult women and men whose work drives their countries' economies and services, and who care for the young a

Health

Joel M Bassuk — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:59:26 +0000

A doctor when you need one. Medicines you can afford. Clean water to drink. Millions of people are going without these basic things, every single day.

Major donors failing Afghanistan due to $10bn aid shortfall

Joel M Bassuk — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:54:34 +0000

Forty per cent of aid spending returns to rich countries in corporate profits and consultant costs.

Oxfam International warns of dire humanitarian consequences of full scale military incursion into Gaza

Noirfatom — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:57:59 +0000

Oxfam International warns of dire humanitarian consequences of the full scale military incursion into Gaza now being considered by the government of Israel.

Don’t let the poorest pay the price of economic downturn, Oxfam warns G7

Joel M Bassuk — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:27:33 +0000

G7 Finance Ministers must not allow concerns over the bleak economic outlook to knock poverty and international aid issues off the agenda when they meet in Tokyo tomorrow.

Oxfam calls for an end to Gaza fighting

Pilar Barroso — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:18:30 +0000

20 Jan 2008: Oxfam calls on the Government of Israel and on Palestinian armed groups to immediately cease violence directed against civilians.

Oxfam survey: Financial boycott pushes Palestinians into poverty and essential services to meltdown

Joel M Bassuk — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:18:57 +0000

A survey commissioned by international development agency Oxfam International and released today, highlights how the suspension of Western aid and Israel’s refusal to transfer

Rich countries betraying their obligations to help poor countries protect public health

Joel M Bassuk — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 17:28:45 +0000

Five years on, most poor people are yet to benefit from the Doha Declaration