Oxfam International

The fiddling was fun but the issue is deadly serious

Robert Fox
Oxfam Canada
Executive Director
Robert Fox
3 million face death while Berlusconi and the G8 fiddle. Credit: Nicola Sacco/Oxfam
3 million face death while Berlusconi and the G8 fiddle. Credit: Nicola Sacco/Oxfam

As photo ops go, it doesn’t get much better. A beautiful Rome morning. The ruins of Nero’s palace on the horizon. A backdrop of leaping flames augmented by fire breathers. And the heads of the G8 countries cavorting about in togas, fiddling while Africa burns.

London calling

Dorothy Ngoma
Executive Director of the National Organization of Nurses and Midwives of Malawi
Dorothy N'goma
Dorothy Ngoma visited the Whittington Hospital's new midwifery and neo-natal care unit in London. Credit: Oxfam.

Following her visits to Germany, Italy and Scotland, Dorothy Ngoma, our Oxfam champion from Malawi, visits a UNISON conference, before heading to London.

Climate negotiations: glass half-empty or glass half-full?

Theo Ratcliff
Oxfam International
Web editor

On a rest day at the UN Climate Talks in Poznan, Oxfam's Charlie Powell and Barry Coates retreat to their hotel to take stock of events at the first week of negotiations, and look forward to the arrival of the ministers in week two.

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