Press Clips
24 August 2010
Coady, a longtime public health nurse, leaves today as part of an Oxfam Canada mission to flood-ravaged Pakistan.
While she’s taken part in international humanitarian relief efforts in the past, Coady said that she’s often been part of the second-wave of aid workers.
16 August 2010
Robert Fox, executive director of Oxfam Canada, said his group is now concentrating on educating their donors on the extent of the damage, how many people have been affected and the way that the flood has jeopardized Pakistan’s economy, food security and political stability.
16 August 2010
Robert Fox, executive director of Oxfam Canada said the group is now beginning to see a steady rise in donations.
"While the initial support from the Canadian government was modest, the increase from $2 million to $35 million is a positive sign and helped underline for the public the severity of the situation in Pakistan," he said. "Increased media attention has also drawn the public's attention."
25 June 2010
A group from Oxfam wearing 'naked pregnancy suits', Canadian maple leaves in strategic places and masks of world leaders demanded that the politicians face the 'naked truth' and deliver $20 billion needed to reach the $50-billion promised five years ago for the world's poor.
24 June 2010
The cottage country community hosting the G8, which starts Friday, gave its blessing to development organization Oxfam to hold a stunt with their notorious giant papier mache heads.
The people wearing the heads also wore body suits to make it look as though they were naked and pregnant. Oxfam said it was the "naked truth" that the G8 leaders have failed to deliver on past promises and urged them to remedy that this year.
25 June 2010
"We're asking them to make good on those pledges over the next two years," said Mark Fried, policy coordinator for international development group Oxfam. "They need to set clear targets to come up with the money they missed," he added.
Fried said African countries had lost an estimated $63 billion since the global financial crisis began in 2008 through lower export earnings from a collapse in demand and declines in foreign aid.
25 June 2010
Prime Minister Stephen Harper's initiative on maternal and child health at the G8 is gaining significant momentum, just as talks for stabilizing the global economy at the G20 stall, sources tell The Canadian Press.
23 June 2010
The draft underlines the need for countries to give up their fossil fuel subsidies.
"It's progress," said Robert Fox, executive director of Oxfam Canada. "We can't duck this issue ... but the language is still pretty general."
21 June 2010
Oxfam Canada says it won't let the Harper government lose sight of the 0.7 per cent target as it prepares to host leaders of the world's richest countries later this week.
"We're never going to let go of that one. That's what we pledged to do 40 years ago, and we've got to get the government to stick to it. It's not a whole lot of money," says Oxfam's Mark Fried.
18 June 2010
Not the leaders — just yet — but the slightly-battered papier maché puppet versions that the advocacy group Oxfam uses to make points during leaders’ summits.
22 June 2010
Dorothy Ngoma is the Executive Director of the National Organisation of Nurses and Midwives of Malawi and a member of the W8, a parallel organization to the G8 featuring women community leaders from developing countries.
14 June 2010
Barack Obama's head has arrived in Canada ahead of the G8 and G20 summits -- minus part of his ear.
The giant papier mache likeness of the U.S. president's noggin and the heads of the seven other G8 leaders were unpacked at Oxfam's Toronto offices Monday after being shipped from Germany, where they appeared at UN climate change talks.
Oxfam uses the props for publicity stunts during international meetings, such as the upcoming G8 in Huntsville, Ont., from June 25-26 and the G20 in Toronto from June 26-27.
14 June 2010
Canada has added climate change to the G8 agenda after coming under pressure from world leaders and environmentalists.
A spokesman for Prime Minister Stephen Harper confirmed Monday that climate change will be on the table at both the G8 and G20 summits.
14 June 2010
Eight papier mache heads of the world's leaders have arrived at Oxfam's headquarters in Toronto in advance of the G8 and G20 summits
14 June 2010
Excluding climate change from the upcoming G8 and G20 summits would be a snub to poorer nations, environmentalists said on Monday, urging under pressure host Canada to add it to the agenda.
