- Oxfam calls on mining company to respect human rights
- Oxfam calls for an end to violence in the Peruvian Amazon
- Aid agency urges US government to help resolve the crisis
- Oxfam urges miner to address community engagement practices
- West African countries endorse regional mining sector policy
- Oxfam urges miner to improve community relations
- New shareholder report identifies opportunities for stronger community engagement practices.
- Peru mining conflicts grow critical
- Central American mining could undermine economic well-being
- Oxfam urges informed public debate over costs and benefits
- Oil, mining industry anti-corruption efforts moving too slowly; mandatory regulations needed
- Oil 'hot spot' Ghana must proceed with caution
- G20 must put fight against poverty at the center of global economic reforms
- Global leaders must not squander historic opportunity for reform.
- Bold leadership is needed to turn the tide of poverty
- Oxfam's oil, gas, and mining program
- Oxfam advocates just government policies and corporate practices in the oil, gas, and mining industries, and supports the right of communities to participate meaningfully in decisions about the use of natural resources.
- OXFAMExchange Spring 2009
- The power of resilience
- OXFAMExchange Spring 2008
- Raising a generation without fear
- OXFAMExchange Winter 2008
- Hard Questions about Ghana's Gold Boom
- Working together to end poverty and injustice
- An overview of Oxfam America and our approach to poverty relief and lasting social change.
- Oxfam in West Africa
- Across the vast Sahel and down through the lush rainforests of Ghana, there is a growing sense of possibility.
- Oxfam in Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean
- All across this diverse and beautiful territory, new faces of leadership are emerging. Women, rural communities, and small farmers are adding their voices to the political dialogue, calling on their governments: Hear us now.
- OXFAMExchange Spring 2006
- Challenging Injustice
- Oxfam in South America
- To their government officials and to the corporations who want to exploit their lands and natural resources, the indigenous and rural people of South America have a simple, yet important message: "We are here."
- OXFAMExchange Fall 2002
- What's in your coffee? Oxfam's coffee campaign. Plus Afghanistan, Make Trade Fair campaign, and the Hopi people's struggle for clean, safe drinking water.
- Mining conflicts in Peru: Condition critical
- Metals, mining, and sustainable development in Central America
- An assessment of benefits and costs
- Ghana's Big Test
- Oil's challenge to democratic development
- Corporate Social Responsibility in the Mining Sector in Peru
- Golden Rules
- Around the world, large-scale metals mining takes an enormous toll on the health of the environment and communities. Gold mining, in particular, is one of the dirtiest industries in the world.
- Hidden Treasure?
- In search of Mali's gold-mining revenues
- Transparency Begins at Home
- An assessment of United States revenue transparency and extractive industries transparency initiative requirements
- Dirty Metals
- Mining, Communities, and the Environment
- Tarnished Legacy
- A Social and Environmental Analysis of Mali's Syama Goldmine
- Poverty Reduction or Poverty Exacerbation?
- World Bank Group Support for Extractive Industries in Africa
- Digging to Development?
- A Historical Look at Mining and Economic Development
- Extractive Sectors and the Poor
- A Proposed Mine in Tambogrande, Peru: An Alternative Look
- Oxfam America Organizing Guide
- Tips for taking action in your community
- Oxfam America House Party Guide
- Tools for hosting a high-impact event
- Take Action: Protect Community Rights and Resources
- Over 60 percent of the world's poorest people live in countries rich in natural resources—but they rarely share in the wealth. Too often, poor communities have no say in the extraction of resources from their land and receive little information about these projects.
- Open the Books on Corruption
- From Oxfam America partner Publish What You Pay, calling for transparency in the oil, gas and mining industries and asking Congress to introduce the Extractive Industries Transparency Disclosure Act.
- Is mining right for Central America?
- Farmers and indigenous people debate the costs and benefits of mining.
- 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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Oil and mineral wealth could change the country, and a new watchdog intends to ensure revenues are well spent, and reduce poverty.
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.
West Africa asks, "Where is my gold?"
Oxfam America and leading civil society organizations in West Africa are launching a week of action aimed at raising public awareness about the mining industry in the region.
Chile: Struggling for the right to decide
Farmers use the law to defend their water and their rights—but can't block a massive tailings dam.
President Saca speaks out against mining in El Salvador
El Salvador's President Elias Antonio Saca announced that his government would not give out any mining permits in El Salvador.
Ghana's president promises disclosure of oil contracts
Mills takes step toward greater transparency, regulation.
Rio Blanco: Massive copper project proposed for Cloud Forest
Controversy and torture allegations in northern Peru as farmers resist mining in an environmentally sensitive area.
Oxfam calls for an investigation of alleged torture of 28 in Peru
A new report and photographs show participants in peaceful march in 2005 were detained and mistreated by mine company security and police.
Conflict surrounds expansion of Peru gold mine
Local communities turn to legal measures to protect land, water.
Photos, panel discussion demonstrate impact of oil extraction on Nigeria and other African nations
Oxfam expert explains that oil revenues do not always translate into money to fight poverty.
Student activists hear the voices behind the issues
Oxfam America CHANGE Leaders learn how US legislation can help communities affected by oil, gas, and mining.
Resource revenues elusive in Peru
Money from mines and pipelines is hard to track, and not obviously helping the poorest people in the country.
Cocoa farmers threatened by gold mine
Farmers in a small town seem more interested in keeping their farms than selling out—but the struggle to protect their land will be a hard one.
Land and heritage at risk in Ghana
A proposal to mine in a forest reserve raises concerns about the environment and the future of a nearby farming community.
An indigenous Q'eq'chi community in Guatemala struggles to defend its agricultural land.
Defending the people, and Lake Izabal
Despite threats to her life, Eloyda Mejía raises awareness about industrial mining near a beautiful lake in eastern Guatemala.
Andrea Perera explores how, for those living on gold deposits in Ghana, free, prior, and informed consent means the right to define the terms of development for their own communities.
In Texistepeque, El Salvador, farmers question wisdom of relying on mining
Concerns about water and land lead to a debate about the role of mining in long-term economic development.
US legislators, Oxfam partners discuss gold mining in Ghana
Meeting focuses on the impact of mining on poor communities, and shows how upcoming US legislation can help people claim their rights.
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.
Amazon Defense Front wins prestigious environmental prize
Luis Yanza and Pablo Fajardo of Ecuador are recognized for their effort to protect the natural world with the Goldman Environmental Prize for 2008.
Oxfam America and ECOWAS to create new mining code
Oxfam America and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) agreed on April 4, 2008 to collaborate on creating a common mining code for all of West Africa.
In Prestea, Ghana, gold mine expansion threatens water sources
Communities are requesting a comprehensive evaluation of the impact of a new mining project and for their right to free, prior, and informed consent regarding new ones.
Caught on the wrong side of a gold boom
Farmers in Ghana talk candidly about the impact of gold mining on their communities and how to hold mining companies and government accountable.
Joanna Manu: community activist in Ghana
Joanna Manu learns how to defend her rights and stands firm in protecting the environment in her community.
Demolished Ghanaian village wins court decision
Mining company gets bill for houses, school destroyed in 1997.
Environmental activists receive death threats
In Guatemala, a deep-rooted culture of violence limits debate about mining and the environment.
What is the likely environmental impact of Minera Majaz's proposed copper mine?
Dead fish and acid pollution point to cyanide in stream
Farmers in Ghana affected by chemical spill call on government to investigate and punish polluters.
Ghana discovers oil, and has an opportunity to use it for development—if it can avoid the usual traps of new oil wealth in developing countries.
Majority who voted say 'No' to Majaz Mining Company
Citizens express their will in peaceful referendum in Peru.
Pollution risk at new gold mine in Ghana exposed
Journalist in Ghana writes about environmental risks, wins award.
Río Blanco: history of a mismatch in Peru
Here is a summary of the facts that have marked the relationship between the mining company and the local communities.
Referendum on Rio Blanco mining project
"Do you agree with having mining activity in the district of Carmen de la Frontera?" This is the question that thousands of citizens will answer on Sunday September 16th in this and two other districts in northern Peru.
A new leader of concerned farmers in rural Ghana
Emilia Amoateng helps defend the rights of fellow villagers, presses a legal case for compensation for their lost farms.
For resettled community, not all are satisfied with new home
New clinic doesn't quite make up for lost lands, higher expenses for displaced farmers.
Oxfam America partner Dr. Juan Almendares receives humanitarian award
"My greatest inspiration was my mother...When I graduated from the university, I had three callings: To work on behalf of the poor, to educate, and to dedicate myself to science."
Cambodia sees Oxfam as a partner in petroleum lawmaking process
Public forum on extractive industries attracts attention of national government.
New attention on ChevronTexaco case
President of Ecuador speaks out on environment as indigenous leaders press for justice at shareholder meeting.
Oxfam preps for oil and mining's new focus
American, Chinese, and Australian companies look to Cambodia.
Oxfam America denounces death threats against rights advocate in Peru
Calls on the authorities to investigate death threats and intimidation.
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.
Bolivian indigenous groups attacked
Oxfam expresses solidarity with Chiquitano indigenous people in eastern Bolivia after their offices are ransacked and leaders are threatened.
Rodolfo Pocop: an indigenous perspective on mining in Guatemala
New economic realities in Central America reveal strong concerns about the future of Mayan culture.
Humberto Piaguaje is the representative of the Secoya people to the Assembly of Delegates of Communities Affected by Texaco.
Pablo Fajardo is the Amazon Defense Front's legal coordinator for the case against Texaco.
