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Rachel George

Campaign Project Manager (Digital)

Rachel works with new technologies and social media to enhance Oxfam's campaigning and public engagement impact online.

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27 Mar 2013

10 amazing things #IF campaigners have achieved

10. Tweeted all about it!  When we launched a Thunderclap, IF reached more than 300,000 tweeters...

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IF campaigners dress up as George Osborne

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23 Jan 2013

Introducing... Enough food for everyone IF

Meet IF. It might be one little word, but we're hoping it's going to make 2013 the beginning...

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Enough food for everyone IF

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11 Dec 2012

Britain's got land grabbed!

This weekend across the UK Oxfam activists "grabbed" land where they lived. From big...

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'Land grabbers' with SOLD signs in front of the Angel of the North in Gateshead

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25 Oct 2012

Every bullet has a story - reflections from a Zambian doctor

This blog is by Dr. Robert Mtonga, a medical doctor (general practitioner) from Lusaka, Zambia...

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A spent bullet casing

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03 Sep 2012

Plan B and a strong ATT

When the negotiations for an Arms Trade Treaty were blocked by the US at the last moment in July...

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Illegal guns kill thousands worldwide every day

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25 Jul 2012

Two days left to make a strong treaty

There are now just two days to go at the UN Arms Trade Treaty negotiations in New York and the...

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Fake tombstones are placed along the East River by members of the Control Arms Coalition to coincide with a diplomatic conference on the future Arms Trade Treaty in New York. They are calling on the over 190 countries present to agree a strong global agreement that will bring the arms trade under control. July 24, 2012. Andrew Kelly

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25 Jul 2012

First reaction to the draft Arms Trade Treaty

It appears the treaty has been reduced from a humanitarian action to simply a regulatory document...

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Anna Macdonald, Paul Conroy and Olly Sprague with the Control Arms tank

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04 Jul 2012

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon accepts Control Arms petition

Overarmed and underfunded While receiving the handover of the global petition and the Parliamentarian,...

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Ban Ki-moon accepts the Control Arms petition

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03 Jul 2012

Bodies of evidence on first day of UN Arms Trade Treaty conference

Every day, 2000 people die around the world as a result of armed violence. Arms embargos are imposed...

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