Oxfam Emergency Channel http://oxfamemergency.posterous.com Updates from the ground by Oxfam posterous.com Wed, 18 Jul 2012 15:54:43 -0700 Podcast Oxfam Channel - update from the field - 17th phonecast http://oxfamemergency.posterous.com/podcast-oxfam-channel-update-from-the-field-1-69181 http://oxfamemergency.posterous.com/podcast-oxfam-channel-update-from-the-field-1-69181

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Sat, 14 Jul 2012 14:39:03 -0700 Podcast Oxfam Channel - update from the field - 17th phonecast http://oxfamemergency.posterous.com/podcast-oxfam-channel-update-from-the-field-1-62400 http://oxfamemergency.posterous.com/podcast-oxfam-channel-update-from-the-field-1-62400

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Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:08:00 -0700 Drought, Food Crises, and International Response: Learning from the Horn to the Western #Sahel http://oxfamemergency.posterous.com/drought-food-crises-and-international-respons http://oxfamemergency.posterous.com/drought-food-crises-and-international-respons

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Thu, 06 Oct 2011 08:21:25 -0700 Podcast Media teleconference ahead of Viktor Bout trial http://oxfamemergency.posterous.com/podcast-media-teleconference-ahead-of-viktor http://oxfamemergency.posterous.com/podcast-media-teleconference-ahead-of-viktor

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Tue, 16 Aug 2011 23:01:00 -0700 Mohamed Dahir of Hijra on the humanitarian situation in Mogadishu, #Somalia http://oxfamemergency.posterous.com/podcast-oxfam-channel-update-from-the-field-1-92241 http://oxfamemergency.posterous.com/podcast-oxfam-channel-update-from-the-field-1-92241

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Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:41:32 -0700 Humanitarian Snapshot of East Africa #FoodCrisis by @unocha http://oxfamemergency.posterous.com/humanitarian-snapshot-of-east-africa-foodcris http://oxfamemergency.posterous.com/humanitarian-snapshot-of-east-africa-foodcris
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Wed, 03 Aug 2011 06:13:50 -0700 Listen to an aid worker in Mogadishu - Podcast from Somalia #famine #somalia #aid http://oxfamemergency.posterous.com/listen-to-an-aid-worker-in-mogadishu-famine-s http://oxfamemergency.posterous.com/listen-to-an-aid-worker-in-mogadishu-famine-s

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Mon, 01 Aug 2011 11:42:00 -0700 Oxfam Janna Hamilton talks about her 2nd day at the Dadaab camp http://oxfamemergency.posterous.com/podcast-oxfam-channel-update-from-the-field-1 http://oxfamemergency.posterous.com/podcast-oxfam-channel-update-from-the-field-1

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Sun, 31 Jul 2011 07:25:04 -0700 Podcast Oxfam Janna Hamilton from the Dadaab Camp in Kenya http://oxfamemergency.posterous.com/podcast-oxfam-janna-hamilton-from-the-dadaab http://oxfamemergency.posterous.com/podcast-oxfam-janna-hamilton-from-the-dadaab

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Fri, 29 Apr 2011 07:44:00 -0700 New Podcast Oxfam Channel from Caroline Gluck in Ivory Coast http://oxfamemergency.posterous.com/new-podcast-oxfam-channel-update-from-the-fie-5 http://oxfamemergency.posterous.com/new-podcast-oxfam-channel-update-from-the-fie-5

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Sat, 23 Apr 2011 14:22:50 -0700 New Podcast Oxfam Channel - update from the field - 11th phonecast http://oxfamemergency.posterous.com/new-podcast-oxfam-channel-update-from-the-fie-4 http://oxfamemergency.posterous.com/new-podcast-oxfam-channel-update-from-the-fie-4

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Fri, 22 Apr 2011 08:07:00 -0700 Podcast Oxfam Channel LISTEN to my colleague @carooxfam in #cotedivoire @oxfam started its programs #civ2010 http://oxfamemergency.posterous.com/new-podcast-oxfam-channel-update-from-the-fie-2 http://oxfamemergency.posterous.com/new-podcast-oxfam-channel-update-from-the-fie-2

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Thu, 14 Apr 2011 13:42:00 -0700 Podcast d'Oxfam en Francais de Charles Bambara dans l'Ouest de la #cotedIvoire http://oxfamemergency.posterous.com/new-podcast-oxfam-channel-update-from-the-fie http://oxfamemergency.posterous.com/new-podcast-oxfam-channel-update-from-the-fie

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Thu, 14 Apr 2011 09:11:43 -0700 Crisis at the Border: Conflict in Cote d'Ivoire Causes Thousands to Flee to Liberia http://oxfamemergency.posterous.com/crisis-at-the-border-conflict-in-cote-divoire http://oxfamemergency.posterous.com/crisis-at-the-border-conflict-in-cote-divoire More than 120,000 Ivorians have <a href="http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/un-official-says-criticism-of-peacekeepers-in-icoast-unfounded" target="_hplink">fled</a> -- and continue to flee -- into neighboring Liberia.

In the past week alone, its estimated that more than 9,000 refugees arrived in the southeastern Liberian coastal city of Harper, in Maryland county, after many villages were attacked.

This abandoned school building on the outskirts of the city is now home to more than 4,600 people. The site was designed as a temporary transit center for 1,500 people -- but is now bursting at the seams.

The early arrivals got tents; but those who arrived more recently have to sleep on the floors of the derelict schools; others have built makeshift wooden shelters themselves; using leaves as a roof to try to shield them from the searing sun and the occasional rain.

<em>Pictures by Caroline Gluck. Follow her on <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/carooxfam" target="_hplink">Twitter</a></em>

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<em>A transit site where Oxfam installed 10000 litre water bladder + taps as well as latrines and wash facilities for men and women</em>

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<em>For more information about Oxfam's work in Cote d'Ivoire and what you can do to help, <a href="http://www.oxfam.org/en/emergencies/ivory-coast-liberia-crisis" target="_hplink">please go here</a>.</em>


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Sun, 10 Apr 2011 10:56:00 -0700 New Podcast from Oxfam Channel on @posterousfrom @carooxfam at the border of #liberia and Ivory Coast #civ2010 http://oxfamemergency.posterous.com/new-podcast-oxfam-channel-update-from-the-fie-3 http://oxfamemergency.posterous.com/new-podcast-oxfam-channel-update-from-the-fie-3

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Sat, 09 Apr 2011 15:50:14 -0700 New Podcast Oxfam Channel - update from the field - 6th phonecast http://oxfamemergency.posterous.com/new-podcast-oxfam-channel-update-from-the-fie-1 http://oxfamemergency.posterous.com/new-podcast-oxfam-channel-update-from-the-fie-1

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Fri, 01 Apr 2011 14:44:41 -0700 New update from Oxfam in Liberia - Interview by Caroline Gluck http://oxfamemergency.posterous.com/new-update-from-oxfam-in-liberia-interview-by http://oxfamemergency.posterous.com/new-update-from-oxfam-in-liberia-interview-by Crisis in the Ivory Coast covered by Track180 - Nice update from @carooxfam - http://t.co/OvfEnYn #ivorycoast #liberia 9min piece
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Fri, 01 Apr 2011 11:54:00 -0700 NEW Oxfam podcast - update from the field Liberia / Ivory Coast http://oxfamemergency.posterous.com/new-oxfam-podcast-oxfam-update-from-the-field http://oxfamemergency.posterous.com/new-oxfam-podcast-oxfam-update-from-the-field

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Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:18:31 -0700 Reuters - Nations open talks on world arms trade treaty #armstreaty #att http://oxfamemergency.posterous.com/reuters-nations-open-talks-on-world-arms-trad http://oxfamemergency.posterous.com/reuters-nations-open-talks-on-world-arms-trad Mon, Jul 12 2010
By Patrick Worsnip
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The world's nations opened negotiations on Monday on an arms trade treaty meant to regulate the $55 billion global weapons market and prevent guns from pouring into conflict zones and fueling wars and atrocities.
One person every minute dies as a result of armed violence, and some 128 armed conflicts since the end of the Cold War in 1989 have led to at least 250,000 deaths each year, according to the Control Arms Campaign, an international advocacy group.
After years of debate, the U.N. General Assembly last October authorized formal talks. Monday marked the start of the first of three preparatory sessions over the next year, with a four-week conference planned for 2012 to finalize a treaty.
Supporters aim is to set common rules for international arms sales -- from rifles to fighter planes -- to replace a patchwork of national laws riddled with loopholes that make it easy to buy weapons for conflicts.
Key issues in the negotiations will include what criteria governments will have to fulfill to get a green light for arms sales and how compliance would be monitored.
U.N. disarmament chief Sergio Duarte told delegates from the 192 U.N. member states they could "help reverse the vicious cycles of conflict and armed violence, which up until now have so shattered and destroyed human life and potential."
A treaty would seek "to inject some sense of predictability into a complex and sensitive issue," conference chairman Roberto Garcia of Argentina said last Friday. That could stop arms fueling events like the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, where weapons were sold even after the killing began.
TOUGH NEGOTIATIONS
Not all countries are committed to a treaty. Major arms producers Russia, China, India and Pakistan were among 19 nations that abstained in last year's General Assembly vote, and one country -- Zimbabwe -- voted against.
That indicated negotiations would be tough. Diplomats said a treaty would not be a panacea and rogue governments and militants would probably keep seeking black market options.
The United States, which controls two thirds of global arms sales, agreed to join the treaty drafting process only on condition that it be run on the basis of consensus -- effectively giving it, and all other countries, a veto.
The resolution approved by the General Assembly also included a paragraph diplomats said was essential for the United States, where the right to private gun ownership is a sensitive domestic political issue. The paragraph says national governments will continue to regulate domestic arms sales.
Nevertheless, President Barack Obama's decision to back the talks reversed the position of former President George W. Bush's administration, which had opposed it on the grounds that national controls were better.
Advocacy groups urged U.N. member states to push for a tough treaty that would make it difficult for human rights violators to get weapons to kill their own people.
"By the end of the next two weeks, member states must have made real progress: and this means delivering a draft text," said Anna Macdonald of aid group Oxfam, which wants a treaty.
British delegate John Duncan described that as "over-ambitious," but said some countries now appeared more receptive to a treaty than they had last year.
"Even the Russians didn't disagree on the need to stop weapons falling into the hands of criminals and terrorists. The question is how it's going to be done," he told Reuters.
(Editing by Chris Wilson)
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Sat, 23 Jan 2010 13:07:29 -0800 Oxfam media reaction to end of rescue efforts http://oxfamemergency.posterous.com/oxfam-media-reaction-to-end-of-rescue-efforts http://oxfamemergency.posterous.com/oxfam-media-reaction-to-end-of-rescue-efforts

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Mark Fried, spokesman of the relief agency Oxfam International said:

“The end of search and rescue efforts does not mean we can slow down. Relief and recovery for the survivors is the priority now.

“Hundreds of thousands who lost everything but their lives need water for drinking and washing. They need latrines to contain the spread of disease. They need shelter and simple household items like cooking pots.

“Haitians are grieving, but they are also buoyed by the generous outpouring of support from around the world. Despite the losses they have suffered, they are working hard to turn the empty lots, golf courses and churchyards where they have taken refuge into places where they can live in dignity. Oxfam and other aid agencies are there working alongside them.”

***Broadcast quality video of Oxfam water distribution at Petionville club, Port-au-Prince, filmed Friday January 22. It’s loosely edited including interview with Oxfam Country Director Yolette Etienne. Downloadable in 3-set profiles. http://drop.io/haitivideo/media

 

22 Janvier

 

Mark Fried, porte-parole d’Oxfam en Haïti

 

« La fin des recherché ne veut pas dire que nous devons ralentir. Au contraire, les efforts d’aide humanitaire et de secours pour les rescapés est notre priorité. Des centaines de milliers de survivants  - qui ont tout perdu et survivent malgré la souffrance, la faim, la soin - ont besoin d’eau pour boire et se laver. Ils ont besoin de latrines pour éviter la propagation de maladies.  Ils ont besoin d’un toit et d’objets très simples comme des marmites pour se nourrir ou des verres dans lesquelles boire.

 

« Le people haïtien est en deuil, mais tout aussi reconnaissant envers la générosité démontrée a son égard. En dépit des pertes en vie humaines, ils travaillent extrêmement dur pour transformer de nombreux lieux vacants en refuges, où ils peuvent vivre en toute dignité. Oxfam et les autres agences humanitaires seront présents, cote-a-cote, jusqu’au bout. »

 

TV : Images haute résolution de distribution d’eau : http://drop.io/haitivideo/media

 

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