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- In Peru, women confront climate change with traditional gardens
- Can ancient knowledge help solve today’s problems? Indigenous women in the Amazon believe that it can—and to prove it, they’re going back to their roots.
- Fighting destiny
- A heroine considers her role in re-aligning attitudes in Peru.
- Setting a good example
- Jesus Nazareno’s anti-discrimination ordinance is a model for others in the area.
- The injustice of racism
- How racism and discrimination contribute to poverty for indigenous people in Peru.
- Local approach to fighting racism
- Start with helping people confront their own attitudes, then change local laws to protect basic rights.
- 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 ...
- Women are key to solving AIDS crisis in Southern Africa
- Discrimination is at the root of the disproportionate burden of the disease on women.
- Oxfam funds fuel-efficient stoves that help women
- A $132,000 program helps thousands of displaced women stay safer in Darfur by providing 4,200 households with fuel-efficient stoves.
- Guardians of culture hold key to change
- Local traditional healers work to transform views of women—and their role in Mozambique society.
- Ethiopian women rediscover role as peace builders
- By raising awareness of the suffering produced by conflicts, women help find alternatives to violence.
- Balancing culture, new law in Mozambique
- Educating traditional leaders builds respect for women and their rights in the new Family Law.
- Spirit world
- Acknowledging and working with spiritual leaders is essential to long-term changes leading to better respect for women and their rights.
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