The year 1965 saw the creation of the first Alternative Trading Organization ( ATO ): that year, British NGO Oxfam launched " Helping-by-Selling ", a program which sold imported handicrafts in Oxfam stores in the UK and from mail-order catalogues.

Oxfam has the largest number of charity shops in the UK with over 700 stores.

Other Oxfam affiliates also have stores, such as Jersey, Germany, Ireland ( 45 shops in NI / ROI ), the Netherlands and Hong Kong.

Robinson has been Honorary President of Oxfam International since 2002 and of the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation EIUC since 2005, she is Chair of the International Institute for Environment and Development ( IIED ) and is also a founding member and Chair of the Council of Women World Leaders.

Oxfam have denied working for the ICC saying that " We don't have an agreement with the ICC, we are a humanitarian organisation and we are impartial ," and " We don't have anything to do with the ICC and we don't have a position on its decision.

Health care was another area where the Sandinistas made incredible gains and are widely recognized for this accomplishment, e. g. by Oxfam.

* Jay Kay, frontman of the funk / acid jazz group Jamiroquai, is known for donating a part of the profits earned from his album sales to Friends of the Earth and Oxfam, among other things.

* INGO stands for international NGO ; Oxfam, INSPAD, Institute of Peace and Development " A European Think Tank For Peace Initiatives ";

In return for their work at the festival Oxfam receive a donation, which in 2005 was £ 200, 000.

In December 2008 several of the 7 Worlds Collide lineup reconvened in Auckland, New Zealand to record The Sun Came Out, a charity album for Oxfam to be released 29 September 2009.

Thousands of people hold events for Oxfam on International Women's Day, join the celebration by visiting the website and registering their events.

Because of the strong economic advantages realizable by widespread proliferation of freight bicycles, Oxfam has designed the OxTrike and established local production at community workshops in non-industrialized countries for use in non-industrialized countries worldwide.

Windschuttle claimed that Daum " had done no research into the matter " and that " the reports of the Sudanese operations of the several Western aid agencies, including Oxfam, Médecins sans Frontières, and Norwegian People ’ s Aid, who have been operating in this region for decades, will not find any evidence of an unusual increase in the death toll at the time ".

It is a non-stop 100km endurance event along the South Downs Way to raise money for Oxfam and the Gurkha Welfare Trust.

John McAllion ( born 13 February 1948, Glasgow, Scotland ) is a former Labour Party convener of Tayside Regional Council, Member of Parliament ( MP ) and Member of the Scottish Parliament ( MSP ), and a campaigner for Oxfam in Scotland.

Before that, he traveled to West Africa with the Academy for Educational Development, Oxfam and Save the Children to work on programs related to women ’ s health and education in Africa.

He subsequently worked for Christian Aid, Oxfam and other development agencies until his election to Westminster.

As well as her party political activities, Lucas has worked with developmental NGO Oxfam as Press Officer ( 1989 – 91 ), Asia Desk Communications Officer ( 1991 – 94 ), Policy Adviser on Trade and the Environment ( 1994 – 97 ) and Team Leader for Trade and Investment ( 1998 – 99 ).

The album was promoted with a small UK tour, profits from which were donated to Oxfam, a charity which " offers the chance for thousands of people to use music to achieve something together, which is an idea that gets me excited ", said Gough.

In October 2007, the same line up performed again as Monaco at the Ritz in Manchester which raised money for Oxfam.

Groups such as Oxfam have criticized the Uruguay Round for paying insufficient attention to the special needs of developing countries.

Meyer is currently Chair Emeritus for Oxfam Canada.

Following heavy rainfall and flooding in February 2007 the United Nations Assistance Mission for Afghanistan ( UNAMA ) opened a sub-office in the province and Oxfam, one of the few NGOs operating in the province, described UNAMA's input into coordinating flood relief as impressive.

Gaventa was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire ( OBE ) in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to Oxfam.

In 2007, British animal rights group Animal Aid criticized World Vision, Oxfam, and other aid groups for sending farm animals to families in developing countries.

Dawson is involved with the Lower East Side Girls Club and supports other charities such as environmental group Global Cool, the ONE Campaign, Oxfam, Amnesty International, Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, Stay Close. org ( a poster and public service ad campaign for PFLAG where she is featured with her uncle Frank Jump ), International Rescue Committee, and Voto Latino, and she participated in the Vagina Monologues.

For example, the survey of corporate social responsibility, published January 2005, produced largely critical letters from Oxfam, the World Food Programme, United Nations Global Compact, the Chairman of BT Group, an ex-Director of Shell and the UK Institute of Directors.

*-An example of a local bookshop that says it has been driven out of business by Oxfam.

One example for World Food Day events is the World Food Day Sunday Dinners that Oxfam America sponsors in collaboration with several other non profits.

Many Oxfam shops also sell books, and the organization now operates over 70 specialist Oxfam Bookshops, making them the largest retailer of second-hand books in Britain.

The group had originally spoken of the issue of fair trade in the Oxfam campaign Make Trade Fair.

In addition to food and medicine, Oxfam also provides tools to enable people to become self-supporting and opens markets of international trade where crafts and produce from poorer regions of the world can be sold at a fair price to benefit the producer.

Oxfam works on trade justice, fair trade, education, debt and aid, livelihoods, health, HIV / AIDS, gender equality, conflict ( campaigning for an international arms trade treaty ) and natural disasters, democracy and human rights, and climate change.

Various international organizations ( including Oxfam International, IANSA and Amnesty International, as part of the Control Arms Campaign, and the United Nations ) and domestic groups ( e. g. the Small Arms Working Group in the US ) have committed themselves to limiting the trade in, and proliferation of, small arms around the world.

Fair trade sales prior to labelling initiatives were contained to relatively small world shops ( also called charity shops ), operated by alternative trading organizations ( ATOs ) such as Oxfam and Traidcraft.

* Oxfam GB-Working to build a just and safer world and campaigning in the areas trade, conflict, debt and aid, and education

For instance, an NGO such as Oxfam, concerned with poverty alleviation, might provide needy people with the equipment and skills to find food and clean drinking water, whereas an NGO like the FFDA helps through investigation and documentation of human rights violations and provides legal assistance to victims of human rights abuses.

* the focus of the Project ( 1977 – 1990 ) on public education and advocacy, rather than providing food and other direct action ( on May 30, 1981 the board of directors of Oxfam Canada passed a resolution which stated they would not endorse any activities or programs sponsored by The Hunger Project, nor would they accept funds from the project.

According to Oxfam researchers, there are many other aspects of the agricultural processing and the food supply chain that also contribute to greenhouse gas emissions which are not taken into account by simple " food miles " measurements.

Oxfam International, March 2005.

Recently, Oxfam has claimed that the lifestyle of the Maasai should be embraced as a response to climate change because of their ability to farm in deserts and scrublands.

Singer himself reports that he donates 25 percent of his salary to Oxfam and UNICEF.

In March 2009, Sudan expelled several major foreign aid agencies including Oxfam and Save the Children from Darfur in response to the extradition request of Omar al-Bashir to answer ICC charges.

" The Sudanese government simultaneously expelled " the International Rescue Committee, Oxfam UK, CARE, Mercy Corps and the Dutch section of Doctors Without Borders.

On 19 October 2007, a first edition ( number 349 of 1, 000 ) was discovered inside a handbag in an Oxfam shop in Nantwich, Cheshire, mimicking the discovery of Jack Worthing as an infant.

Give your dirty shirts to Oxfam.

The Oxfam Trailwalker is a one hundred km event.

Also, Michael Bond wrote " Most large NGOs, such as Oxfam, the Red Cross, Cafod and Action Aid, are striving to make their aid provision more sustainable.

Some 2000 stewards are organised by the aid charity Oxfam.

* Lord Judd ( born 1935 ) former director of Oxfam.

Other musical ventures include work with African musicians in aid of the charity, Oxfam, forming part of supergroups ( The Good, the Bad and the Queen and Rocket Juice & the Moon ) and work on film soundtracks.

According to Brian Walker, director of Oxfam, " a solidarity and compassion surged across our nation " from the broadcast of Year Zero.