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New report reveals shared experiences of African Americans and Latinos
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Oxfam America applauds Peruvian Congress action to uphold rights of indigenous people
Sep 05, 2008
- US Gulf Coast Recovery Program Fact Sheet
- An overview of Oxfam America's continuing effort to rebuild the Gulf Coast
- A Portrait of Louisiana
- Louisiana Human Development Report 2009
- Building Common Ground
- How shared attitudes and concerns can create alliances between African-Americans and Latinos in a post-Katrina New Orleans
- Mining conflicts in Peru: Condition critical
- Mirror on America
- How the state of Gulf Coast recovery reflects on us all—Oxfam's report on the status of Gulf Coast recovery three years later.
- Oxfam Impact January 2008
- Landmark victory for indigenous people
- Oxfam Impact April 2007
- MIRA makes a difference
- Oxfam Impact September/October 2006
- Rebuilding the Gulf Coast: A Year Later
- Investing in Destruction: Glamis Gold
- US Gulf Coast Recovery Program Fact Sheet
- An overview of Oxfam America's continuing effort to rebuild the Gulf Coast
- Lifeblood at risk
- In northern Peru, small-scale farmers can earn more by growing organic products. They say the rush to mine for copper in the mountains above their farms would contaminate the region and put their futures at risk.
- Our Land, Our Life
- The struggle of Carrie and Mary Dann, two Western Shoshone elders, to address the threat mining development poses to the sacred and environmentally sensitive lands of Crescent Valley, Nevada.
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Cambodia: Working to avoid the resource curse
Cambodians are enthusiastic about the discovery of oil, gas, and minerals, but wary of possible governance and transparency issues.
New tool helps communities focus on human rights
A new system will help community members do their own analysis of the effects of foreign investment on human rights.
New potential for conflict in Peru’s Amazon
Madre de Dios could be next flashpoint in ongoing confrontation between indigenous communities and foreign oil, gas, and mining companies.
Oxfam and local partners help farmers cope with crop failures, food shortages.
Peru overturns decrees, starts dialogue
The government of Peru and indigenous citizens to move from conflict to dialogue on land rights and the best way to consult native people as they work to protect their territory and way of life.
Bolivian legal research organization firebombed
Oxfam America's South America regional office expressed concern and sympathy regarding the attack on the Centre for Legal Studies and Social Research (CEJIS) in Santa Cruz.
An indigenous Q'eq'chi community in Guatemala struggles to defend its agricultural land.
Peruvian village sees pollution, few benefits from gas pipeline project
Gas spills and lack of attention to community development raise questions in the forest villages of indigenous people affected by the Camisea pipeline.
In the mountains of Peru, indigenous leaders are taking a multicultural approach to overcoming centuries of racism and discrimination—and fighting poverty.
Environmental activists receive death threats
In Guatemala, a deep-rooted culture of violence limits debate about mining and the environment.
On the front lines of climate change: Nicaragua's Miskitos people
Central America's Miskitos Indians have been living in harmony with their remote jungle environment for centuries, but now they are falling victim to greater extremes of weather.
"Without land there is no life"
Elba Flores, head of research at the Center for Legal Studies and Social Research (CEJIS), describes the struggle of the Chiquitano people to overcome racism.
After centuries of discrimination and a decade of legal work supported by Oxfam, the indigenous Chiquitano people of eastern Bolivia now have legal title to their ancestral territory, Monte Verde.
First the rivers, then the forests: a fragile balance
Rural communities are struggling to survive as they lose their resources one at a time.
New attention on ChevronTexaco case
President of Ecuador speaks out on environment as indigenous leaders press for justice at shareholder meeting.
Human rights violations follow the money
Groundbreaking hearings on the responsibility of the World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank to respect human rights exposes violations related to loans in Latin America.
Peruvian villagers look beyond subsistence to their basic rights
Modest projects to grow food lead to a conviction to do more for a village and its children.
Writer learns what life is really like 'in the field'
Traveling by air, boat, and broken-down Toyota provides the best education.
Bolivian indigenous groups attacked
Oxfam expresses solidarity with Chiquitano indigenous people in eastern Bolivia after their offices are ransacked and leaders are threatened.
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