Local singer, songwriter and actor Bryce Langston has today released his new single ‘Not Christmas Yet’. And in the spirit of Christmas, 100% of iTunes sales in December 2012 will be donated to Oxfam Unwrapped.
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Growing crisis in eastern Congo
As the humanitarian crisis in eastern Congo grows, with thousands of people fleeing new fighting in the past 48 hours, Oxfam is stepping up the supply of life-saving aid to more than 80,000 people in and around Goma.
UN climate talks: NZ backpedalling
It’s been another year of extreme weather and climate change ministers and negotiators are meeting again, this time in Doha. UN climate change talks are set to begin on November 26. Oxfam is calling on governments, including the New Zealand Government, to rise above our narrowly-defined self interest and make real progress towards a fair, ambitious and binding global deal.
The climate ‘fiscal cliff’: An evaluation of Fast Start Finance and lessons for the future
After a year of extreme weather, developing countries face a climate ‘fiscal cliff’ at the end of 2012. This report argues that developed nations must scale up climate finance from 2013, consider innovative proposals to raise public climate finance, and make pledges to the Green Climate Fund that otherwise will remain an empty shell for the third year in a row
Suffering set to worsen in Congo
As the M23 armed group fights to take control of yet more territory in eastern DRC, and a multitude of other armed groups terrorise communities, there is a very real risk of complete collapse of state authority and the humanitarian crisis reaching new depths, Oxfam said today.
Gaza: Oxfam supported kindergarten destroyed
An Israeli airstrike has destroyed one Oxfam supported kindergarten (Al Bajan kindergarten) and left another damaged (Al Housna kindergarten) in Karama, North West Gaza City.
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