Word: oxfam
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...Organized by the Win Without War coalition, an umbrella group whose members include big names such as the NAACP, the Sierra Club, NOW, Oxfam America and the Rainbow/Push coalition, the "march" took the form of a barrage of faxes and phone calls directed at the phone lines of the White House and selected members of congress. And, perhaps mindful that most callers wouldn't get as far as a "your call is important to us" message, a primary goal was to drown out the drumbeat of war with a busy signal...
...people and in that respect Washington is not exactly even-handed. I hope that Labor leader Amram Mitzna will be elected. What is the role of humanitarian organizations in international affairs? I put more faith in nongovernmental organizations than in state governments, rogue or otherwise. The Red Cross, Amnesty, Oxfam, Human Rights Watch - no national politician would ever get a mandate to create such an institution, because they're all external. There are hundreds of NGOs and there are some very good ones among them. They're our best hope for the future...
...super-sized military budget or the agribusiness-loving farm bill. As individuals and corporations, we can donate to the U.N’s Global Fund on AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (www.apathy-is-lethal.org), which is using all the money it gets to save lives. Or we can donate to OXFAM, another worthy organization that fights suffering and death in Africa and around the world. Singer recommends UNICEF, which specifically helps mothers and children. When you’re considering that new North Face fleece this winter, think about how much more your $200 could do elsewhere...
...balance in an upcoming summit on intellectual property rights, but in fact, it’s true. Today, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick will be attending a summit on the World Trade Organization’s Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement, and many activist groups, including Oxfam, Student Global Aids Campaign and the Harvard Aids Coalition, are concerned he will push for patent protections. This move would prevent the manufacture of the generic medications that millions of people in the developing world, where patented medicines are prohibitively expensive, depend on in order to survive...
Trading conflict diamonds is already illegal; the Kimberly Process is just an attempt to enforce the law. Starting next year, all rough, unpolished diamonds must have certificates to prove that they do not come from “conflict” mines. Amnesty International, OXFAM, Global Witness and other human rights groups have spent years railing against conflict diamonds because the diamonds are a double dose of misery. In Sierra Leone, the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) captures mines and then forces locals to forage through the mud looking for diamonds. After extracting days of slave labor from these hapless workers...