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Media Releases Archive: 2006

January 2006

09.01.06 2006: Critical year for achieving Arms Trade Treaty
09.01.06 Eid joy scarce for earthquake survivors
13.01.06 Belfast Post Office donates temporary warehouse to Oxfam Ireland
16.01.06 Pakistan earthquake: 100 days after
25.01.06 Oxfam Ireland Dublin to Capetown Challenge - Update
27.01.06 Five million people face daily terror in Northern Uganda, DRC, Burundi: UN must act

February 2006

07.02.06

Kenyan food crisis sparks serious upsurge in communal violence

16.02.06 Grow for Africa this Spring with 'Oxfamgarden'
21.02.06 New Oxfam Ireland Country Representative in Tanzania
21.02.06 Oxfam delivers emergency supplies to thousands of people stranded by mudslides on Leyte Island, Philippines
27.02.06 Oxjam

March 2006

02.03.06

Global emergency fund – major donors missing in action

02.03.06 Fairtrade Fortnight 2006: Events
10.03.06 Global emergency fund launched today: poor countries pledge money but richer Japan and Germany missing
15.03.06 Shattered drought economy may take 15 years to recover without support
16.03.06 Fairtrade Tshirts now available from Oxfam Fairtrade shops
30.03.06 Rate of death in northern Uganda is three times higher than Iraq
31.03.06 Zambia uses G8 debt cancellation to make health care free for the poor

April 2006

06.04.06

Amazing women like you! Get Fit and Fight Poverty for Oxfamn Ireland

03.04.06 EU countries exposed for misleading aid claims:
07.04.06 World Health Day
07.04.06 Rain brings mixed blessings for Horn of Africa food crisis
07.04.06 Oxfam Ireland launch their ‘Oxfam Vintage' brand
08.04.06 Six months on: Aid effort saved lives but quake survivors need continuing support
21.04.06 Keira Knightley's Oscar dress auction - Helps to raise money for Oxfam
21.04.06 Oxfam Ireland – Kenya: Countdown to Disaster
25.04.06 Activist Angelique Kidjo asks why Africans are suffering again and again... UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and Oxfam Campaigner visits drought-hit Kenya.
27.04.06 Oxfam report warns poor countries against agreeing bad trade deal

May 2006

02.05.06

Long-term recovery sidelined in East Africa food crisis

09.05.06 Graveyard created in front of Stormont, as campaigners demand Arms Trade Treaty
12.05.06 Oxfam Ireland cyclists reach Cape Town – after a journey of 14,500 km!
16.05.06 Massive humanitarian funding shortfall in DRC as 100,000 die of neglect in just 3 months
22.05.06 'Poems for 2007' calendar competition
22.05.06 WTO panel and EU Sugar: Oxfam challenges Europe to deliver on its promises
24.05.06 Sportswear industry Offside! on workers’ rights.
27.05.06 Oxfam's emergency teams bring clean drinking water and supplies to thousands made homeless by the Yogyakarta earthquake
29.05.06 Oxfam Staffer: 'I Was Pretty Sure This Was the End'
30.05.06 UN Summit Will Find Governments Did Not Deliver on AIDS Promises
30.05.06 Oxfam delivers essential resources to Yogyakarta communities in greatest need
31.05.06 Oxfam quake relief effort targets remote communities

June 2006

01.06.06

CharityShop.ie is launched

03.06.06 One week on: Oxfam relief reaches 100,000 quake victims Three-month recovery plan to provide lasting aid solutions
14.06.06 Control Arms: Join Snow Patrol's Gary Lightbody and be one in a million
15.06.06 Bullet trade out of control, fuelling conflict and human rights abuses
19.06.06 Almost one in three people affected by gun crime
22.06.06 New WTO framework doesn't add up to development
23.06.06 Could your face be on the big screen?
26.06.06 AK-47: Northern Ireland Paramilitary 'weapon of choice' is world's worst regulated weapon according to a new report

July 2006

01.07.06

WTO crisis deepens

10.07.06 UN world conference on small arms collapses without agreement
18.07.06 Oxfam sends supplies and assessment team to Tsunami affected Java coast
10.07.06 Employee Abduction forces temporary closure of Oxfam offices in North Darfur
11.07.06 G8 subsidies contributing to WTO crisis
19.07.06 Oxfam International calls for urgent action on the worsening humanitarian crisis in the Middle East
19.07.06 Oxfam delivers aid to Java Tsunami survivors
24.07.06 Current approaches to food crises are failing Africa's poor - Oxfam
25.07.06 Oxfam says EU must change its mindset at WTO
26.07.06 Rich countries not off the hook after breakdown of WTO talks
28.07.06 Security Council must call for immediate ceasefire in Middle East

August 2006

01.08.06

EU Foreign Ministers must call for an immediate ceasefire in the run up to an expected UN Security Council resolution

04.08.06 As Middle East humanitarian situation worsens, Oxfam Ireland focuses emergency relief on Gaza
09.08.06 Last month Darfur's worst-ever for violence towards aid workers.
16.08.06 Lebanon latest - fragile ceasefire holds as massive extent of humanitarian effort required becomes clear
25.08.06 Oxfam delivering 1.5 million litres of drinking water a day in Lebanon relieft effort
31.08.06 Lebanese farmers in crisis after month of war

September 2006

14.09.06

Palestine: EU Foreign Ministers must act to avert a looming humanitarian crisis.

27.09.06 Oxfam warns EU free trade deals with poorest countries are unfair - Call for Ireland to back a comprehensive review.

October 2006

04.10.06

Anniversary of Pakistan Earthquake

09.10.06 Oxfam Ireland launches www.oxfamirelandshop.com – the first online Fair Trade shop in Ireland
09.10.06 African voices call on people of Ireland to help stop new anti-development push on poorest countries
20.10.06 Oxfam Ireland's Fair Trade Freight
23.10.06 Oxfam Ireland welcomes you to the wonderful world of Unwrapped for Christmas 2006
26.10.06 Starbucks opposes Ethiopia’s plan to trademark specialty coffee names that could bring farmers an estimated $88 million annually
27.10.06 Overwhelming majority of world’s governments vote to start work on an
International Arms Trade Treaty

November 2006

13.11.06

Urgent humanitarian aid may be delayed by new violence in eastern Chad

14.11.06 Oxfam Ireland: Rich countries betraying their obligations to help poor countries protect public health
10.06 Give a little extra with Oxfam Ireland Unwrapped
16.11.06 More than 70,000 sign Oxfam petition calling on Starbucks to sign licensing agreement to recognize Ethiopia’s ownership rights to coffee names
29.11.06 Starbucks CEO meets with Ethiopia over ownership of coffee names

December 2006

01.12.06

World AIDS Day: Oxfam calls for immediate action to prevent worsening global HIV & AIDS crisis

01.12.06 Help Oxfam Ireland “keep the promise” on HIV and AIDS
01.12..06 Oxfam Ireland's response to concerns regarding gifts of livestock
07.12.06 Over 25,000 landless families in Aceh still waiting for new land and homes, Oxfam warns
12.12.06 India, Thailand and Philippines must face down conflicts to guarantee affordable medicines
12.12.06 One year on from Hong Kong: Trade talks at standstill, no progress on development
15.12.06 Darfur: New violence threatens world’s largest aid response
15.12.06 Hundreds of humanitarian workers temporarily evacuated and aid supply chains interrupted as violence worsens in eastern Chad

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