What We Do: Campaigns & Advocacy

As well as helping people in the developing world to lift themselves out of poverty through our long-term development and disaster relief work, Oxfam Ireland works to challenge the things we believe keep people trapped in poverty.

Explore the issues we work on below, and find out why campaigning works.

Make Trade Fair

International trade is worth $10 million a minute. Through trade people prosper, building a future for their families. Yet millions of people don't have a chance to make a living because the rules of trade are rigged. We still need to Make Trade Fair.

Climate Change

Poor countries are already experiencing climate change with a vengeance. It threatens lives and livelihoods through more frequent and more severe droughts, floods, storms and cyclones. Find out how we're tackling climate injustice.

Fair Trade

Paying a fair price to farmers, workers and artisans is not only the right thing to do: it gives dignity, respect and a way out of poverty. As well as selling a great range of Fair Trade products in our shops, Oxfam campaigns for Fair Trade across Ireland.

Health and Education

Health and education aren't optional extras in life. We should all have access to decent health and education provision for ourselves and our families. Sadly, many people in the developing world risk being left behind. We believe in health and education for all.

Control Arms

Control Arms Each year 1/3 of a million people are killed with conventional weapons; enough ammunition is created to shoot every human being on the planet twice. Thanks to weak regulations, governments and arms traders fuel suffering around the world. Arms must be controlled.