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• Obama Colluding With Left to Subvert His Own Afghan War Policy

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  [Note: This is the latest segment in an ongoing series about Code Pink and its co-founder Jodie Evans.  Click [1]here [1] to read earlier articles.]In a move by the Obama administration that is gallingly cynical and would be considered treasonous in a less progressive era, a message sent by Code Pink [2] and an ...
  9 hours ago

• $200bn - the price of success in Copenhagen

  
  Oxfam News Blog — Authority: 139
  Two hundred billion dollors could mean the difference between success and failure in Copenhagen said Oxfam as the UN climate summit started today.   The Summit marks the culmination of two years of international negotiations on a deal to prevent catastrophic climate change. Rich countries could set off a chain ...
  11 hours ago

• World AIDS Day 2009: Annie’s story

  
  Oxfam News Blog — Authority: 139
  In Malawi, an estimated 13% of children under 17 are orphans - many of them as a result of HIV-related illnesses. Kate Pattison meets one amazing child forced to fill the shoes of her parents.  I met Annie when I travelled to Malawi in 2009 to report on Oxfam’s work with orphans and vulnerable children. At 15, ...
  1 week ago

• Ethiopia: Shoots of life in drought-ravaged land

  
  Oxfam News Blog — Authority: 139
  What’s being done to protect people from the worsening drought in Ethiopia? Caroline Gluck reports. Mother of eight Momina Hashu surveyed her field of maize with despair. ”We hardly have anything to eat – just leftovers”, she said, pointing to a couple of stunted cobs of maize that she’s managed to ...
  1 week ago

• West Bank: Palestinian farmers struggle for survival

  
  Oxfam News Blog — Authority: 139
  Oxfam’s Caroline Berger reports from the West Bank about the impact that Israeli settlements are having on farming communities in the heart of Jiflik in the Jordan Valley. I’m standing near the lowest place on earth, 400 metres below sea level. Large signs shout out a warning as we enter the village of Jiftlik. ...
  1 week ago

• Women in Malawi: Holding up half the sky

  
  Oxfam News Blog — Authority: 139
  On International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, Nicole Johnston reports on the formidable Women’s Forum not accepting the status quo in Malawi. As the world’s decision makers embark on the road to Copenhagen , the oft-repeated refrain is that climate change will hit Africa “first and ...
  1 week ago

• The temple in the sea: Thailand’s disappearing coastline

  
  Oxfam News Blog — Authority: 139
  Ahead of The Wave , Oxfam Scotland’s Aideen McLaughlin reports from Thailand on how villagers living in coastal areas are coping with the impacts of climate change. Khum Samut Chin Temple [Photo credit: Aideen McLaughlin] Perched on the edge of the Gulf of Thailand just one hour south of Bangkok, the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Gazan farmers unable to work their land in ‘buffer zone’

  
  Oxfam News Blog — Authority: 139
  Gazans don’t want to rely on aid. They want to work on their land, reports Catherine Weibel. Driving along the buffer zone , a military no-go area that extends along the entire perimeter of Gaza and borders Israel, is an eerie experience. A long, horizontal brownish strip of earth runs along the Wall that ...
  2 weeks ago

• Colombia says Venezuela blows up two border bridges

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Because article is so short, mainly just posting the link... http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N19144921.htm "Uniformed men, apparently from the Venezuelan army, arrived in trucks on the Venezuelan side at two pedestrian bridges that link communities on both sides ... and then proceeded to dynamite them," ...
  2 weeks ago

• Helena Christensen shows what is at stake in photographic climate change exhibition for Oxfam

  
  Oxfam News Blog — Authority: 139
  An exhibition of photographs taken by Helena Christensen documenting the threats of climate change on people living in Peru opened in London today. The photographs are a selection taken by Helena while travelling to her mother’s native country with Oxfam earlier this year. During the trip she saw people suffering ...
  2 weeks ago

• BBC reports on how Bangladesh is coping with climate change

  
  Oxfam News Blog — Authority: 139
  Last week the BBC visited Char Atra, a small island community in Bangladesh, where Oxfam is supporting people to adapt to climate change and find alternative livelihoods. Cate Heinrich reports. Last week, together with the BBC, I returned to Char Atra, a river island in southern Bangladesh, to see how this ...
  2 weeks ago

• Oxfam launches celebrity online game show – dare you take on the Climate Challenge?

  
  Oxfam News Blog — Authority: 139
  The public are being challenged to test their climate knowledge with a new online game launched by Oxfam today. The Climate Challenge features top celebrities, including Gael Garcia Bernal (Amores Perros, Motorcycle Diaries), Mackenzie Crook (Brothers Grimm, The Office UK, Pirates of the Caribbean), David Tennant ...
  2 weeks ago

• Uganda: ‘As long as we have life we are rich people’

  
  Oxfam News Blog — Authority: 139
  Having lived for 20 years in fear that each day might be their last, Ugandan communities get busy rebuilding their lives, reports Jane Beesley. After eight weeks of living out of a bag, three countries, sixteen beds, twelve flights, uncountable long drives over rough terrain and meeting, what must be, hundreds of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Drought and insecurity worsens in Uganda

  
  Oxfam News Blog — Authority: 139
  Raiders, diseases and the lack of water and pasture are hitting the livestock of north-east Uganda, reports Jane Beesley. Ugandan farmers and their sheep at sunrise [Photo credit: Jane Beesley] As light starts to break across the horizon the livestock belonging to 17,000 people are anxious to leave the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Oxfam reaction to Ed Miliband’s announcement for the future of coal in the UK

  
  Oxfam News Blog — Authority: 139
  In response to Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Ed Miliband’s plans for coal in the UK, Oxfam’s Campaigns and Policy Director Phil Boomer said: “We welcome the government’s acknowledgement of the need to decarbonise the UK’s power sector.  “However, any plans to build new coal power ...
  3 weeks ago

• Film release: From daily life to disaster in Gabura

  
  Oxfam News Blog — Authority: 139
  Oxfam has today released a ‘landmark’ (says The Guardian ) online interactive documentary which captures the moment when Cyclone Aila hit Bangladesh in May 2009. The film’s Director here discusses making the film. We weren’t prepared for what was going to hit us. In May, we had travelled to Bangadesh ...
  4 weeks ago

• President Karzai’s new government must deliver on schools, midwives and police say aid agencies

  
  Oxfam News Blog — Authority: 139
  The new Afghan government must urgently devote greater resources to building up to 6,000 new schools, training upwards of 5,000 new midwives and professionalizing the police force, according to aid agencies working throughout Afghanistan. Their set of recommendations to the new Afghan administration also highlight ...
  4 weeks ago

• First Gazans get compensation from former Israeli employers

  
  Oxfam News Blog — Authority: 139
  Some 25,000 Gazans used to work for Israeli employers, but today none do. Five years since they abruptly lost their jobs, the first Gazans finally get compensation, Oxfam’s Catherine Weibel reports. Last month, I went to Gaza to meet three women who were the first in the occupied territory to win compensation ...
  5 weeks ago

• Finance ball shifts to US court as climate talks kick off in Barcelona

  
  Oxfam News Blog — Authority: 139
  Oxfam has called on the US to join Europe in laying its climate finance cards on the table, as international climate talks opened in Barcelona today. Real progress on climate finance is possible for the first time after European leaders, meeting in Brussels on Friday, outlined their proposal for how much public money ...
  5 weeks ago

• Philippines floods: Concern grows over long-term impact

  
  Oxfam News Blog — Authority: 139
  With families still sheltering in temporary evacuation centres, concern about the long-term impact of Typhoon Ketsana on people’s livelihoods grows, Laura Eldon reports. How do you cope when rising floodwater forces you to flee your home with only what you can carry? Well if you’re one of the any number of ...
  5 weeks ago

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