Yesterday, Oxfam and Amnesty International UK drove a tank around central London, startling passers-by and even getting stopped by the police for a documentation check. Just days away from the start of the United Nations Diplomatic Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty in New York, (2-27 July) the tank journey in London was part of a global day of action for the Control Arms campaign. Thousands of campaigners from around the world...

David Grimason has today announced he will take his campaign for a strong Arms Trade Treaty to the United Nations during the final talks in New York. Mr Grimason's son Alistair was two-years-old when he was shot dead during a holiday to Turkey in 2003 and he has campaigned for tougher laws on arms ever since. Alistair was asleep in his pram in a cafe when an argument broke out at a nearby table and a man opened fire - killing...

With one billion people going hungry, the climate changing and resources depleting, we are doing what we always do to create sustainable, positive change. We are employing the tactics of the people who went before us, from those involved in the ending of the slave trade to those who ensured an end to South African apartheid. We are campaigning at every opportunity, recognising the power we hold as individuals to change the structures and systems...

For nearly 20 years, Oxfam has been campaigning at some of the UK's biggest festivals, but now we're spreading... and reaching some of the country's lesser-known events. Often independently run, often award-winning, and always unique, we have found some of the more hidden but no less fantastic festivals to take our campaigners too. Y Not Festival - winner of 'The Grassroots Festival Award' in 2011, and described...

Friday saw the end of the Rio+20 conference and, rather appropriately, outside it was wet and rainy. During my time in Rio it has been uncharacteristically wet and stormy, a subtle indication of the shifting seasons and weather patterns that this conference was meant to address. On Thursday I had access to the plenary hall, a vast cavernous space in semi-darkness with row upon row of desks and laptops, where delegates and leaders were...

Oxfam's rooting for an Andy Murray-Roger Federer final Wimbledon this year. Here's why. Charities are known for receiving strange gifts in people's Wills, and Oxfam is no exception. Oxfam supporter Nicholas Newlife left his entire estate to Oxfam when he died in February 2009. This included the outcomes of a series of outstanding bets he had placed. Oxfam has already received £16,750 from one of his bets, when he placed...

"The world is full of dreams that became a reality when people had the determination to make them so." These were the words of Kristalina Georgieva, EU Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid, on Monday as she addressed an urgent meeting on the Sahel food crisis.  ...

A friend from London and I have a long standing joke about how great we Scots are as inventors. We are certainly a small nation that likes to lead the way: the T.V, telephone and tarmac - and that's just the T's! More recently Scotland has been leading the way in a different area. The three year anniversary of Scotland's world leading climate change legislation is just days away, and this year saw another first with Scotland...

An incredible 4,000 UK supporters of the Robin Hood Tax contacted their MPs to demand this tiny tax on banks in the last eight weeks - that's more than 70 per day!  Some in the UK even wore green hats and took photos in their home towns as part of the Global Week of Action - their pictures were seen in all 35 campaigning countries from Mexico to Malawi as a way to show leaders the global backing of the tax.  The...

As a campaigning organisation we regularly ask you, our supporters, to sign action cards and petitions or take online actions. But what happens to those actions after you take them? Over the last few weeks we, along with our campaigning partner The Co-operative, have been encouraging you to ask the UK Government to champion smallholder farmers at the Rio Sustainability Summit next week. Last week Deputy Prime Minister Nick...