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- 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.
- An open letter to the President
- Oxfam President Raymond C. Offenheiser appeals to President Obama to focus on key poverty-related issues.
- Historic House climate bill passes, provides resources for hardest hit
- New coalition to monitor resource revenues in Cambodia
- Oil and mineral wealth could change the country, and a new watchdog intends to ensure revenues are well spent, and reduce poverty.
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- OXFAMExchange Winter 2009
- These are extraordinary times
- 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.
- An Oxfam partner tackles hurricane disasters—past, present, and future
- Oxfam's local partner TRAC is joining hands with other agencies to ensure that hurricane Gustav recovery efforts are fair, coordinated, and forward-thinking.
- After the storm: Oxfam takes stock, rushes in aid
- Gustav hit trailers and vulnerable homes the hardest.
- Some people dread evacuations almost as much as hurricanes
- Leaving home in advance of a storm is costly and exhausting. Facing the prospect of having to do it more than once in short order makes some residents think ...
- 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.
- Building Common Ground
- How shared attitudes and concerns can create alliances between African-Americans and Latinos in a post-Katrina New Orleans
- OXFAMExchange Spring 2008
- Raising a generation without fear
- OXFAMExchange Fall 2008
- A root revolution in Cambodia
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Oxfam urges miner to improve community relations
- New shareholder report identifies opportunities for stronger community engagement practices.
- Bank bailout could end poverty for 50 years
- Oxfam urges miner to address community engagement practices
- New bipartisan congressional bill promises renewed hope for US foreign assistance and global poverty reduction
- Oxfam welcomes climate bill, urges increased support for hardest hit
- Oxfam welcomes Berman's action to increase development and diplomatic capacity
- Historic house climate bill passes first test, more resources still needed for hardest hit
- Yum! Brands agree to hike pay for Florida tomato pickers
- Florida tomato pickers, among some of the poorest paid workers in the United States, have won another victory in their fight to earn a decent living wage.
- US farmworkers reach historic agreement with McDonald's
- Some tomato pickers in southwestern Florida could see their wages nearly double now that McDonald's has agreed to pay them a penny a pound more for the produce ...
- The Lift House: Living on the bayou—or above it
- MIT architecture students design a new housing concept for the Gulf Coast that combines affordability with hurricane-ready sturdiness, and ease of construction.
- Taking on the 'green monster'
- In the tobacco fields of North Carolina, workers put in long days under grueling conditions. Baldemar Velasquez finds out just how hard the job is.
- Oxfam, CIW celebrate Burger King's promise of a wage hike
- A penny a pound more for the tomatoes they pick could mean a near doubling of wages for Florida field laborers.
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