Rich countries spend almost as much on pet food as the $62 billion a year it would cost to meet the Millennium Development Goals on health, education as well as water and sanitation, says a new report released today (1 September) by Oxfam Australia and WaterAid.

Lessons learned from the 2004 Asian tsunami have benefited survivors of the earthquake which hit Central Java three months ago says international aid agency Oxfam.

Political leaders north and south are urged to stem the tide of the AIDS pandemic, said international agency Oxfam today as the 2006 International AIDS Conference wound down. Over the course of the six day conference, more than 50,000 people died from AIDS-related causes and another 80,000 became infected, the agency said.

Zambian cotton farmers are forced to endure poverty as well as deny their kids a chance of a decent education because they cannot sell their cotton and other products for a fair price as a result of billion dollar subsidies and dumping practices by the US and EU.

International development agency, Oxfam, has called the dire shortage of health workers in developing countries an urgent challenge, critical to meeting the promise of universal access to HIV/AIDS treatment. Oxfam is demanding massive new investment from governments to train and retain health workers.

Do not tie the promise of basic services such as education and health care to 99-year government leases on Aboriginal land in the Northern Territory, warned Oxfam Australia as the Senate passed changes to the Northern Territory Land Rights Act.

Future generations of Aboriginal land owners could lose control of their land if proposed changes to the Land Rights Act get the green light this week in Parliament, warns Oxfam Australia.

As part of its $2 million Africa Food Crisis Appeal, Oxfam Australia has set out to raise over $300,000 of Australian funds to go to projects aimed at improving the health and livelihoods of 60,000 east Ethiopians hit by an extreme food crisis this year.

Call for an immediate permanent and enduring ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel, as well as a stop to the violence in Gaza. That's the clear and simple message fourteen of the nation's leading aid and church groups have voiced in a half-page open letter to Prime Minister John Howard in tomorrow's The Weekend Australian.

A new film that investigates the murky machinations of the $105 billion global coffee trade has won praise from Fairtrade advocates Oxfam Australia.

Australia's leading humanitarian agencies have today called for a permanent ceasefire in the Middle East to allow over three million people unrestricted access to humanitarian relief as a result of the deteriorating situation in Lebanon, Gaza Strip and Israel.

The failure of this week's trade talks means greedy rich countries get to hoard the lion's share of global trade, some $20.6 trillion, at the expense of the world's poorest people, says Oxfam Australia.

Oxfam Australia believes that yesterday's suspension of the WTO Doha trade talks will not solve the underlying reasons why a development deal remains deadlocked and in crisis.

After five decades of responding to food crises, Oxfam today asks the international community to seriously examine whether current approaches are working. Oxfam's new report argues that new thinking and more action are needed if we are to effectively address the long-term needs of the poor and hungry in Africa.

International agency Oxfam has today delivered aid to thousands of displaced people after a Tsunami crashed into the west Java coastline on Monday 17 July killing over 500 people.

The newly elected government of the Solomon Islands can act to help dampen simmering public dissatisfaction but RAMSI (Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands) will need to change its approach and seek more ways to support ordinary people to have their say in shaping the future of the country, says a new report by Oxfam as the third anniversary of the mission's arrival approaches.

A group of leading aid agencies today combined forces to call for urgent action to end the continued violence and suffering in Darfur.

International agency Oxfam today dispatched four truck loads of hygiene kits and water and sanitation supplies to Tsunami hit Pangandaran and Ciamis Districts in West Java, after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake occurred beneath the sea off the coast of West Java at 3:19 pm local time Monday 17 July.

Oxfam announced today that it has temporarily closed two of its offices in North Darfur due to the abduction of an employee. The Sudanese staff member, who was taken during the hijacking of an Oxfam vehicle, has now been missing for two months, and all efforts to locate him have failed.

Sportswear giant Adidas should stop back-pedalling, support human rights and deliver on its promise to insist on the reinstatement of sacked union leaders at a factory that manufactures its football boots promoted by World Cup stars David Beckham and Zinedine Zidane, says international agency Oxfam.