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| DOUGHNUT ECONOMICS: WHO IS PUTTING PRESSURE ON THE PLANET | Published: 30/11/12 |
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Who's putting pressure on the planet? This video reveals the extreme inequalities of resource use - within and between countries - underlying the pressure on four 'planetary boundaries': the nitrogen cycle, freshwater use, climate change, and land use change.
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| CLIMATE ‘FISCAL CLIFF’ LOOMS FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES IF LEADERS COME TO DOHA WITH NO NEW MONEY | Published: 25/11/12 |
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After another year of extreme weather, developing countries face a looming climate ‘fiscal cliff’ at the end of 2012. Yet new Oxfam research finds most climate finance pledges so far have been recycled funds or loans.
New Oxfam research finds...
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| FOOD FOR CHANGE | Published: 23/11/12 |
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From 25th to 29th of October, in Turin, Italy, an Oxfam international team took part in Slow Food's event - Terra Madre. Slow Food is a global organization with supporters in 150 countries, and also a Partner of Oxfam's GROW Campaign. They're linking the pleasure of good food with a commitment to th...
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| BLOCKADE MUST END NOW SAYS INTERNATIONAL AGENCY OXFAM | Published: 21/11/12 |
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Martin Hartberg, Oxfam Policy Officer in Jerusalem said:
“This ceasefire must hold. The violence over the last few weeks has been devastating for people in Gaza and Israel. Hundreds of lives have been lost and houses, schools and kindergartens lay in ruins. People need some chance of living normal l...
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| OXFAM SUPPORTED KINDERGARTEN DESTROYED IN GAZA VIOLENCE | Published: 20/11/12 |
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An Israeli airstrike has destroyed one Oxfam supported, left another damaged in North West Gaza City.
An Israeli airstrike has destroyed one Oxfam supported kindergarten (Al Bajan kindergarten) and left another damaged (Al Housna kindergarten)...
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| WORLD BANK 'TURN DOWN THE HEAT' REPORT SHOULD SHOCK THE WORLD INTO ACTION | Published: 20/11/12 |
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In response to the World Bank's 'Turn Down the Heat' report released today which revealed that the world will heat up by 4 degrees at the end of the century and the poor will suffer most, Oxfam Climate Change Policy Spokesperson David Waskow said:
“Jim Kim is absolutely right that this report should...
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| EU BUDGET CUTS COULD COST LIVES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, WARN NGOS | Published: 20/11/12 |
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Leading NGOs call on EU leaders to protect EU development aid against short-sighted cuts ahead of this week’s special EU Budget summit.
Joint NGO press release by Oxfam, CONCORD, Plan and ONE
Brussels, 20 November 2012 - Leading NGOs call on E...
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| COMMODITIES OF WAR | Published: 20/11/12 |
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Communities speak out on the true cost of conflict in eastern DRC
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Steven Van Damme, Protection Policy Adviser, Oxfam GB, DRC
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| PEOPLE IN EASTERN DR CONGO FORCED TO FUND THE WAR THAT DESTROYS THEIR LIVES | Published: 20/11/12 |
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Communities in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are being preyed on mercilessly by rebel groups and local militias, as well as their own government’s troops and officials, in a vicious cycle of exploitation and abuse according to a new Oxfam report.
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| OXFAM LATEST ON SITIATION IN EASTERN CONGO, GOMA | Published: 19/11/12 |
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Oxfam's humanitarian coordinator Tariq Riebl said:
"More than 50,000 people have fled camps and homes since yesterday and are in dire need of shelter, water and food. Families have been split up over night and people are desperately going between sites trying to find loved ones. If fighting intensi...
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