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Work for Oxfam Aotearoa

Posted on 27 July 2022

Oxfam Aotearoa are a NZ charity, connected to a world-wide Oxfam movement, that challenges the global inequalities that push people into poverty and injustice. We welcome you to work with…
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Sustainable NGO Business Models

Posted on 26 July 2022

Global environmental, economic, and societal forces are impacting the business models, funding landscape and value delivered by many Non Government Organisations ( The opportunity may exist for NGOs to engineer…
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UK treasury halting “non-essential” aid

Posted on 25 July 2022

The UK treasury has said it will be “prioritising essential overseas aid funding" such as help for Ukraine, after halting “non-essential" overseas aid. This is purportedly because high spending on…
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The deafening silence of human rights at Pacific Islands Forum

Posted on 25 July 2022

The Pacific Islands Forum leaders’ meeting has ended a week or so ago, and some commentators feel there has been a deafening silence on declining standards of democracy, governance, human…
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EU makes power play in Kiribati

Posted on 25 July 2022

The European Union is studying a possible port for fishing, container vessels, and cruise liners on the Pacific atoll of Kiritimati as part of its “Global Gateway” investment plan. This…
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Violence flares following PNG elections

Posted on 25 July 2022

Violence has broken out, with supporters of rival election candidates attacking each other outside Papua New Guinea's main sports stadium. A police commander in the capital Port Moresby, Anthony Wagambie,…
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Myanmar junta executes democracy activists

Posted on 25 July 2022

Myanmar’s military junta on July 25, 2022, reported the execution of four men in the country’s first death sentences carried out in over 30 years.
 
Sentenced to death in…
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Monkeypox declared global health emergency

Posted on 25 July 2022

The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued the highest level of alert, determining Monkeypox a “public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC).”
 
African researchers have been warning about monkeypox outbreaks…
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A ‘crisis of legitimacy’ in the international aid sector?

Posted on 25 July 2022

International aid organisations are in danger of losing relevance and need to start thinking about “the world beyond themselves”, a study by Nuffield College in Oxford has found. UK academics…
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Bill for climate adaptation for African countries more than health spending

Posted on 25 July 2022

African countries that are the least responsible for the climate crisis will have to spend up to five times more on adapting to global heating than they do on healthcare.…
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