human rights

Make the Case: how international law can help protect people from climate change

Joel M Bassuk — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 08:42:23 +0000

A competition launched by: Oxfam International, The Climate Justice Program, and Advocates for International D

World’s Parliamentarians urge UN to back Arms Trade Treaty

Joel M Bassuk — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 08:00:36 +0000

Over 2000 MPs from 124 states in urgent call to Control Arms

Tomorrow [Monday 20th October] the United Nations will receive the demands of over 2,000 parliamentarians from 12

NGOs warn poor countries neglected in financial bail-outs

Joel M Bassuk — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:36:40 +0000

The below statement was signed by the heads of six international NGOs:

The Middle East Quartet: A Progress Report

Joel M Bassuk — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:25:28 +0000

The humanitarian crisis in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) continues (see ‘The Gaza Strip: A Humanitarian Implosion’).

Oxfam’s reaction to EU biofuels vote: Important first step but must go much further

Joel M Bassuk — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:16:26 +0000

Oxfam welcomed today’s vote by the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE committee) to reduce the EU’s ambitious targets for biofuels in transport fuel but wou

Climate Wrongs and Human Rights

Joel M Bassuk — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:38:17 +0000

In failing to tackle climate change with urgency, rich countries are effectively violating the human rights of millions of the world’s poorest people.

Human rights must be put at the heart of global climate change fight, says Oxfam

Joel M Bassuk — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:00:21 +0000

Rich countries must start basing their climate change policies on existing human rights principles and stop using economic excuses to wriggle out of their responsibilities, says inte

Biofuels

Noirfatom — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:49:10 +0000

They’ve been championed as a solution to climate change and as a way to reduce our insatiable desire for oil.

Fiji: Women speak out against discrimination

Ian McClelland — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:36:34 +0000

The Fiji Women’s Rights Movement (FWRM) was established in 1986 and since then has been at the forefront of the women’s movement in the Fiji. They are:

Oxfam urges EU to act now to secure peace in Eastern Congo

Joel M Bassuk — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:39:18 +0000

Oxfam today urged European leaders to do more to bring lasting peace in Eastern Congo as EU Foreign Ministers meet in Brussels to review the EU’s military and police reform mis