Tag: Oxfam

Oxfam charity says rich nations are protecting pharma company profits at the expense of poorer nations – and their own economic wellbeing.

The organisation has felt the effects of the pandemic and has been forced to reduce its workforce by 50 per cent.

The Australian government has pledged more than $10 million to assist rescue efforts in the Philippines after super Typhoon Haiyan hit the nation.

Australian man Tom Denniss has become the fastest person to circumnavigate the world on foot after running on average a marathon a day, every day, for 622 days. The 26,000 km charity run raised money for Oxfam.

Peter Singer AC, preeminent Australian moral philosopher and ethicist, is presenting a talk in Cambridge on Wednesday 1 May for Giving What We Can and the Cambridge Union on effective altruism — a new talk on how we can all best help others.