Over 5 million people face extreme hunger as the #Tigray conflict surges past six months. Read more: oxfam.org.nz/news-media/med
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#Pacific leaders from several island nations declare #ClimateCrisis & are demanding an end to #coal mining : "the Pacific Islands Development Forum called on governments of countries with high carbon emissions to stop hindering climate change efforts."
WATCH: Brianna Fruean, of the Climate Warriors bringing frontline truth to the Auckland #ClimateStrike: "We are drawing the line here ... We need action, and we need it now" #ClimateJustice #PacificPawa
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The #ClimateStrike was momentous! The leadership of and Climate Warriors has energised a mass movement for #ClimateJustice. The message to the people in government is loud & clear - we need bold action now! #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateChange
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BREAKING: #ParadisePapers show how the super-rich continue to dodge taxes while millions live in poverty. endtaxhavensnow.org
Following the eruption of Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha'apai and ensuing Tsunami waves, Oxfam is closely monitoring the unfolding situation in Tonga and is ready to move in support of authorities and our partners as information becomes available; more to follow.
#CycloneYasa is a category five storm, packing winds of up to 315 km/h. Its forecast track has it moving across the main islands of Viti Levu and Vanua Levu as it snakes southeast. #Fiji Met Service forecaster Steven Meke said the public needed to prepare for the worst.
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This is not the Aotearoa New Zealand we know and love. After being inspired by the solidarity and unity expressed by students marching for climate change today, we are especially shocked and our hearts are with #Christchurch and everyone affected.
#Pacific people are already losing homes&crops to #climatechange. Become a #ClimateVoter today shrd.by/jcV631
On Friday 24 May students all over the world will be joining the #schoolstrike4climate again to demand #climateaction. Executive Director has an encouraging message for all these brave students:
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📽️ WATCH: Communities around the #Pacific are mobilising for #ClimateJustice. Will you stand with them for for a thriving, resilient #future for everyone, everywhere?
✊ Join us at the Global #ClimateStrike – find your nearest event: bit.ly/2NTbp5u
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Today we delivered the #PeoplesVaccine petition to Nearly 6000 kiwis calling for #Covid19 vaccines to be free & accessible to everyone. Will NZ back the IP waiver at the WTO so global production can be scaled up? 📷Molly Doyle
A huge win for our #environment today as the #NewZealand #government announces that single-use #plastic bags will be phased out over the next year 💚
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BREAKING: 175 former heads of state and government and Nobel laureates (including NZ's own ) urge to "put the collective right to safety for all ahead of the commercial monopolies of the few" and support a #PeoplesVaccine #TRIPSwaiver
Huge win! Govt commits $1.3bn in finance to communities on the frontlines of climate change! Oxfam along with partners in the #BigHearts campaign have been pushing for an increase to climate finance within a rising aid budget for the last 18 months.
Oxfam International's Executive Director, , met with our Prime Minister at the #WEF2109 to discuss reducing economic #inequality.
#NewZealand Announces support For The #PeoplesVaccine Minister confirmed this via a tweet. A huge win for the people, but Oxfam New Zealand says the fight is not over yet. Read the media release here: oxfam.org.nz/news-media/med
New research finds world’s top contributors to global warming climasphere.org/#!article/New- via #climatechange
Great to meet with this morning to hand over 3052 signatures calling for NZ's overseas aid and climate finance to be boosted in #Budget2021. Kiwis have big hearts for our global neighbours and are keen to overcome Coronavirus and climate change together #BigHeartsNZ
Climate change is driving inequality. As a nation, Pakistan is responsible for less than one percent of global greenhouse gas emissions but is one of the most climate-vulnerable countries in the world. oxfam.org.nz/appeals/disast
An awesome graphic (thanks BBC!) showing quite how big the #panamapapers leak is..ow.ly/DsbN3003vHx #evenitup
' agreed with concerns around the equity of distribution of a vaccine, arguing that any Covid-19 vaccine needs to be free to everyone.
Clark joined 140 world leaders in signing a letter calling for any vaccine to be patent-free & free to all.'
Today, we proudly announce that Oxfam New Zealand has changed its name to Oxfam #Aotearoa. The name change is just one step in our much broader ongoing journey to deepen our understanding and response to the history, impacts, and contemporary importance of Te Tiritio Waitangi.
Right now in Pakistan, floods have devastated an area the size of Aotearoa New Zealand. Now more than ever Oxfam needs to respond – quickly. Will you please donate today to provide much-needed assistance to those who have lost so much? oxfam.org.nz/appeals/disast
No one is safe until we are all safe.
Ensuring everyone has access to a future vaccine is the only way to protect us all from another COVID-19 pandemic: bit.ly/2AvzkDj
Helen Clark explains why she's joining the call for a #PeoplesVaccine:
"It is the poorest who pay the highest price of droughts, floods, and record temperatures they did not cause."
Want to take action against climate change? Sign the petition & ask MPs to #BackThePlan for #ZeroCarbon by 2050: bit.ly/backtheplan
We just found a massive company that may have avoided paying millions of dollars in tax in NZ: bit.ly/crush-tax-avoi
Did you know 650m people worldwide don't have access to safe water? water.oxfam.org.uk #Factoftheday #WWWeek
The inspiring thing about #COP21 has been the power of people. Let's build on the momentum. ow.ly/VPxsS
A huge thank you to and who donated an amazing $10,826 to Oxfam from the sales of Terry’s Dumb Dot Story, a recent addition to their best-selling Treehouse book series. #treehousetour
See How Pacific Islanders Are Living With Climate Change
We've been meeting with MPs to deliver our #BigHeartsNZ campaign brief/chat about how New Zealand can stand with the world by boosting our overseas aid and funding of #climateaction in frontline communities. bighearts.org.nz
GREAT NEWS! Oxfam hygiene kits&jerry cans have arrived in #Honiara to help people affected by #SolomonIslands floods
Zambia: 1 of the 10 fastest growing economies, but 64% of people still in poverty. #EvenItUp ow.ly/XnOXE
“A very big vinaka vaka levu, thank you for your donation.” When you support Oxfam, you’re supporting people like Iliavi, whose home was completely destroyed during Cyclone Winston – that hit Fiji in 2016 – & is facing increasing climate change impacts. Thank you!
A year since first Pfizer vaccine was given, Sub-Saharan Africa has only received enough doses to fully vaccinate 1 in 8 people. The failure to vaccinate the world has created perfect breeding ground for Omicron, say campaigners.
"Severe climate shocks threaten to roll back decades of progress against poverty,"
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Where is the riskiest place to live? The countries facing rising seas and extreme weather ow.ly/4n5btx
March 22 is Taps Off Day! Here at the Oxfam office we'll be turning off all our taps for 24 hours. Will you join us? tapsoff.org.nz
Today, rich countries have an opportunity at #COP26 to step up and commit to providing the critical funds that communities living on the frontlines of climate breakdown so desperately need. #PayUp4LossandDamage
If we beat the #InequalityVirus, we can make a world:
🌍 That is profoundly more equal
🌍 Where human economies care for people
🌍 Without exploitation and with income security
🌍 Where the richest pay their fair share of tax
🌍 Of climate safety
#DavosAgenda
The Government and Climate Change Commission are being sued for errors in Aotearoa’s recommended #climateaction. This case is a key opportunity to send a powerful message about why keeping to 1.5 degrees is so important, & what’s at stake: bit.ly/CaseFor1point5 #CaseFor1point5
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"NZ should lead the fight against climate change - This is a region that is facing the consequences right now" - #WithWinnie
"Statistics recently released by the central banks of a number of prominent tax havens suggest that the equivalent of 10% of world GDP is held in tax havens globally." - Berkeley economist Gabriel Zucman.
#FairTaxNow #EndInequality #FightPoverty
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Oxfam is calling for people across the motu country to use their voice to demand urgent climate action. Sign our pledge today to call for genuine climate action from the New Zealand Government: oxfam.org.nz/climate-shift/
Thanks to your support, Oxfam has been able to respond in 62 countries impacted by the Covid-19 global crisis.
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READ: Youth in the #Pacific are mobilising this week during the #NiuPawaFestival, “Pacific peoples are at the forefront of this story about climate breakdown. We are shifting the narrative.” #Oxfam
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Paying taxes is how we show care and responsibility for each other. The richest among us, like Trump, are often avoiding paying their fair share - we need #FairTaxNow
Shocking: Just 8 billionaires have the same wealth as poorest 3.6bn people. Take action on #inequality + #EvenItUp bit.ly/2jzcUE0
Oxfam NZ stands as one against any form of racism or xenophobia. We work for a better world – embracing difference & the strength of unity. Our aroha to the Muslim community & all who grieve. #notwhoweare
It's turned into an epic afternoon at the finish of #otwnz as people have challenged themselves & challenged poverty
"It’s really touching the lives of the rural people. And that’s what I like to see. When you support people it brings joy to your heart." - Kelly Inae, Oxfam partner oxfam.org.nz/blogs/2018/04/ #bees #honey #beekeeping #PNG
The most vulnerable communities in the #Pacific are losing out twice with the impacts of #ClimateChange: they are on the front line of its devastating effects, while also being denied the necessary funds to adapt. Sign our petition & help us change this: bit.ly/2Msgj5f
“You see women forming communities to farm together, to lend each other money, adapting their farming methods or fishing methods, looking for ways to survive the impact of climate change, so I call them climate heroes.” — Director
Congrats Jacinda on getting over the line!We know yr work’s just starting- looking forward to working w you on things tht matter most #nzpol
Multinationals that don’t pay their fair share of tax are stealing billions. Time for #taxjustice at #FFD3
Imagine not being able to simply turn on a tap to wash your hands and protect yourself from coronavirus. Instead, you have to make a long and dangerous journey to collect water.
You can help provide our neighbours in Papua New Guinea with safe water: bit.ly/30paVds
Women's voices are missing from peace talks in #Yemen, making it less likely that the conflict will be resolved. This clip illustrates research that shows the chance of peace is highest when women participate in the process. Read more: reut.rs/2UVz5Hb #The_Missing_Piece
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On International Women's Day, celebrate te mana o te wāhine across NZ and the Pacific #IWD2014 #InspiringChange
We're deeply proud of all the Oxfam Trailwalkers slogging it out in the rain today. You're awesome. #otwnz
There's enough African wealth in #taxhavens to get every African child into school #EvenItUp act.oxfam.org/new-zealand/ta
Here are some simple steps to protect your community from Coronavirus, as shown in this awesome video by The World Health Organisation .
Thank you for doing your part to look out for others! Together we can #FlattenTheCurve 💙
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A shiny new Twitter milestone for us: 7,000 lovely followers. Thank you! #HappyDance
TAKE ACTION: More than 200,000 people have died in the deadly second wave of #CoronaVirus in India – and it is the most vulnerable who are suffering the most.
Donate now at oxfam.org.nz/donate/india-c
We're standing with 13 other NZ NGOs to ask all MPs to take action against climate change: actions.oxfam.org/new-zealand/ba #BackThePlan
Today is International Day Against #Homophobia #IDAHOT A day to raise awareness of violence, discrimination, and repression of LGBTQIA+ communities worldwide. As of 2020, it's still illegal to be LGBTQIA+ in 70 countries, and you could be given the death penalty in 12.
A climate change documentary made by Kiwi film-makers for the UN will get a global premiere today in Chch and NY
New research by has "revealed that NZ's two wealthiest men increased their collective wealth by $1.1 billion between 2017 to 2018. In that same period, the poorest 50 percent of New Zealanders saw their collective wealth decrease by $1.3b." bit.ly/2SZXASs #WEF19
The inspiring Wai-Atamai team visited our office today to share their discoveries around #community, #storytelling and social #innovation. Together we created stories about the world in 2030. Thanks team! Ngā mihi nui 💚 #waipareira #waiatamai
#Healthymeans reducing extreme inequality so that more poor people have access to critical health services shrd.by/n0pwLG #EvenItUp
It is time to put the collective right to safety for all ahead of the commercial monopolies of the few say 170+ former heads of state and govt and Nobel laureates in a powerful letter to . President, it's time for #PeoplesVaccine Read the PR here: bit.ly/2OPMvGJ
The Oxfam community came together this year to make an incredible impact in the face of a life-changing year.
Thank you! 💚
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Thanks to lovely star @riavandervis for taking on #livebelowtheline for Oxfam livebelowtheline.com/me/riavandervis
Our economy is broken, with millions of people living in extreme poverty while rewards go to those at the top. We need transparency in our global tax system to create a fair world. Read 's new research on inequality: Oxfam.org.nz/reports/public #FightInequality #BeatPoverty
Today we are launching our Big Hearts, Connected World campaign! We are stronger when we stand together to face global challenges. It's time to boost overseas aid and climate action. Sign the petition now at bighearts.org.nz #bigheartsnz
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Winston causes US$20m damage to #Fiji schools via radionz.co.nz/international/ 240 schools damaged or destroyed
Team Buff wait there's more! has set a Whakatāne record, crossing the 100km line in 12 hrs 51 mins. They led the trail all day, running to the finish line to an eruption of applause. What an amazing achievement - and a moment they will remember for a lifetime. 👊😊🕶🏅 #otwnz
"We surely cannot drift on to 2030 knowing that unless we change course, hundreds of millions of people will still be deeply impoverished, hungry, without access to basic services, & exposed to a 3°+ global temperature rise" - #ClimateChange bit.ly/2zuG1Cj
Are we doing our fair share for 1.5 degrees? New Zealand must scale up #climate ambition to cut our #pollution much faster. Read Oxfam New Zealand’s ground-breaking report on #NewZealand’s contribution to global climate action here: bit.ly/2ZFyddX
'We only have one planet': Dr Jan Wright on saving the one thing we all have in common thespinoff.co.nz/science/climat