Press Releases

• Humanitarian response system needs more resources to cope
  7 February, 2012
  The international humanitarian response system will fail to cope with the expected rise in the number of people exposed to crises unless there are more resources closer to where disasters happen and there is more investment in preventing and reducing the risk of disasters, warned international agency Oxfam today. In a [...]
• Thousands of lives and millions of dollars lost due to late response to food crisis in East Africa
  18 January, 2012
  Thousands of lives and millions of dollars lost due to late response to food crisis in East Africa Lessons learnt can help prevent future disasters and save lives Thousands of needless deaths occurred and millions of extra dollars were spent because the international community failed to take decisive action on [...]
• Two years on and Haiti’s reconstruction proceeds at a ‘snail’s pace’, leaving half a million Haitians homeless.
  10 January, 2012
  Oxfam Ireland’s chief executive Jim Clarken has said that “two years on from the earthquake, reconstruction of the country has proceeded at a snail’s pace leaving more than half a million Haitians still homeless”. In a report released today, ahead of the two year anniversary of the earthquake, Oxfam urges [...]
• Oxfam urges Philippines president to ensure rights-based relocation of flood victims
  20 December, 2011
  Oxfam has a team of ten experts on the ground to assess the water and sanitation conditions in Cagayan de Oro City and Iligan City in southern Philippines, after flashfloods brought on by typhoon Washi displaced at least 26,000 families and killed 927. Oxfam is particularly concerned that the affected people, [...]
• Durban Platform leaves world sleepwalking towards four degrees warming
  12 December, 2011
    Negotiators at the UN climate talks have narrowly avoided a collapse, agreeing to the bare minimum deal possible. The plan gets the Green Climate Fund up and running without any sources of funding, preserves a narrow pathway to avoid 4 degrees of warming and gets a second commitment period of [...]
• Oxfam Media Statement: Verdict on the Busan global aid deal
  2 December, 2011
  Verdict still out on whether Busan is a good deal for poor countries. Reacting to the outcome of the Busan aid negotiations, International agency Oxfam said donors had put off important decisions about how to improve aid. A common set of monitoring standards that apply to everyone – new and traditional [...]
• Extreme Weather Endangers Food Security
  28 November, 2011
  In the last year extreme weather events shocked global markets contributing to soaring wheat prices and imperiling food security in many parts of the world, according to research compiled by Oxfam ahead of the Durban climate talks.  This year could be a grim foretaste of what is to come [...]
• Yes we can!
  25 November, 2011
  A new movement of change is sweeping across Tanzania as thousands of people are publicly coming together to demand an end to the plague of domestic violence that affects so many families. Oxfam is supporting the national ‘We Can’ campaign, called Tunaweza in Swahili. It’s just over one year old and [...]
• Somalia: International leaders should focus on saving lives and recovery
  18 November, 2011
  Oxfam warns that conflict is slowing relief efforts As more heads of state publicly support the military action in Somalia, Oxfam called on international leaders to refocus on addressing the crippling famine in the country. The agency urged all parties involved in the conflict to ensure that civilians are protected from [...]
• Climate Bill Not A Priority
  3 November, 2011
  Minister for the Environment, Phil Hogan, unexpectedly announced today that climate change legislation is no longer a priority for the Irish Government. The principle of climate change legislation had cross-party support in the last Dáil and a commitment was made in the Programme for Government to publish legislation. Today’s announcement has [...]
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