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Pakistan floods three months on: The crisis far from over and millions at risk as funding dries up

29 October 2010

Three months after floods devastated Pakistan, cases of disease are increasing and in the worst-hit region, the southern province of Sindh, large areas remain underwater. At the same time, funds for the UN flood appeal are drying up and threatening the aid and reconstruction effort.
Oxfam relief reaches hardest-hit districts in flood-ravaged Ha Tinh

28 October 2010

International aid agency Oxfam today starts its initial assistance in two worst-affected districts in Ha Tinh province, central Vietnam where torrential rain has brought two consecutive severe floods to one of the poorest and most disaster-prone parts of the country.
Cholera outbreak in Haiti: Oxfam to reach 40,000

26 October 2010

Oxfam’s Water and Sanitation advisor Raphael Mutiku said:
Haiti: Oxfam responds to cholera crisis - Aid agency already reaching 25,000

24 October 2010
Oxfam mobilizes public health experts in cholera-stricken Haiti

23 October 2010

In response to the cholera outbreak in central Haiti, Oxfam has mobilized a team of five emergency specialists to set up water, sanitation and hygiene programs for an estimated 100,000 people in a heavily affected zone.
Loopholes expose New Zealand to illicit arms deals

18 October 2010

In a new report released today, Oxfam exposes the weaknesses in New Zealand company law that enabled unscrupulous international arms brokers to drag the country into the deadly business of the illegal arms trade, highlighting the urgent need for a global Arms Trade Treaty.
Palestinian olive oil profits in the West Bank could double if Israeli restrictions ended

15 October 2010

A new Oxfam report highlights that while the olive oil sector generates income and employment in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), numerous obstacles ranging from a lack of investment in farming practices to the impact of settler violence – are stifling its true potential.
Oxfam reaction to Friends of Democratic Pakistan meeting

15 October 2010

Consuelo Lopez-Zuriaga, Oxfam Head of Humanitarian Campaigns, said,
UN must stop failing civilians under threat from the LRA

15 October 2010

Tens of thousands of people will remain without life-saving aid unless the UN mission in Congo steps up its presence in areas brutalized by the Lords Resistance Army (LRA), Oxfam warned today.
Signs of hope that international community might be getting its act together to end world hunger, says Oxfam

15 October 2010

UN countries began to find common ground on some important and deep-seated problems contributing to global hunger, at a meeting of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) that ends in Rome tomorrow.

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Pakistan floods three months on: The crisis far from over and millions at risk as funding dries up

Oxfam relief reaches hardest-hit districts in flood-ravaged Ha Tinh

Cholera outbreak in Haiti: Oxfam to reach 40,000

Haiti: Oxfam responds to cholera crisis - Aid agency already reaching 25,000

Oxfam mobilizes public health experts in cholera-stricken Haiti

Loopholes expose New Zealand to illicit arms deals

Palestinian olive oil profits in the West Bank could double if Israeli restrictions ended

Oxfam reaction to Friends of Democratic Pakistan meeting

UN must stop failing civilians under threat from the LRA

Signs of hope that international community might be getting its act together to end world hunger, says Oxfam