Oxfam

Peter Murtagh in Cebu, the Philippines   The United Nations wants to step up significantly its relief operation in the Philippines and has appealed f(...)

Irish charities have renewed appeals for relief aid as new storms threaten to hamper rescue efforts in the Philippines. Plan Ireland chief exec(...)

Oxfam Ireland experts have reported seeing children begging for help and holding up signs that read: “Help. We need water, food and medicines.”The ch(...)

Armindo de Deus has worked all his life as a coffee farmer in the Ermera district of Timor-Leste. He is a wiry, weather-beaten man with darting, milky(...)

The World Bank’s 188 member countries endorsed a strategy that president Jim Yong Kim says should enable the lender to better respond to clients’ need(...)

Mário Silva and his partner, Elisa Teixeira, sit eating vegetable soup and bread in a cheerily decorated charity restaurant in the seaside city of Mat(...)

Is Bono IDA Ireland’s biggest nightmare?Richard Boyd Barrett may want to bring some multinational executives into Leinster House to give them a Margar(...)

Southern Afghanistan’s top policewoman has died after being shot in an ambush, months after her predecessor was murdered.Her death, one of the latest (...)

Former minister for the environment Dick Roche has been lobbying MEPs on behalf of a Hungarian ethanol producer ahead of a European Parliament decisio(...)

Charities will learn tonight whether they are to be banned from opening shops that fund their work on Dublin’s Grafton Street.Dublin city councillors (...)