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- Women of influence get results on Capitol Hill
- Oxfam's Sisters on the Planet Ambassadors generate Congressional support for women who face the devastating effects of climate change.
- 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 Congo, women face sexual violence and legacy of shame
- Spilling beyond the conflict that has swept the region, sexual violence is now beginning to corrode the core of traditional Congolese communities.
- Up in Smoke? Asia and the Pacific
- The fifth report from the Working Group on Climate Change and Development.
- Oxfam America's Climate Change Campaign
- We are asking that the US cut greenhouse gas emissions, and provide financial assistance so that the most vulnerable communities can adapt.
- Sexual violence in DR Congo
- Oxfam's striking short film, shot in eastern Congo in 2008, elevates the stories of women working to overcome brutality and asks viewers to take action by ...
- Little progress at the G8 in Japan
- In the end, the results fell short of what the world's poorest people require.
- Climate Change and Security Fact Sheet
- Climate Change and Women Fact Sheet
- Ethiopia sets the stage for immediate response to global warming
- Leaders from government, NGOs, and the private sector come together to discuss creation of national policy.
- Climate Wrongs and Human Rights
- Putting people at the heart of climate-change policy
- Climate, Poverty, and Justice
- What the Poznań UN climate conference needs to deliver for a fair and effective global climate regime
- Turning Carbon into Gold
- How the international community can finance climate change adaptation without breaking the bank
- Women are key to solving AIDS crisis in Southern Africa
- Discrimination is at the root of the disproportionate burden of the disease on women.
- Deepening droughts hinder efforts to fight HIV/AIDS in South Africa
- In rural Hluhluwe, a drier, hotter climate means fewer nutritious crops for people living with HIV/AIDS.
- Pasture pressure
- Erratic rains and encroaching bush limits grasslands for herders in southern Ethiopia.
- Credibility Crunch
- Food, poverty, and climate change: an agenda for rich-country leaders
- Bolivian indigenous groups attacked
- Oxfam expresses solidarity with Chiquitano indigenous people in eastern Bolivia after their offices are ransacked and leaders are threatened.
- "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.
- 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.
- Environmental activists receive death threats
- In Guatemala, a deep-rooted culture of violence limits debate about mining and the environment.
- "We are united"
- An indigenous Q'eq'chi community in Guatemala struggles to defend its agricultural land.
- 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) ...
- Oxfam welcomes appointment of Stern on climate
- President-Elect Obama's commitment to re-engage in global climate talks praised
- Rodolfo Pocop: an indigenous perspective on mining in Guatemala
- New economic realities in Central America reveal strong concerns about the future of Mayan culture.
- 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 ...
- Papua New Guinea: "The islands are shrinking"
- The low-lying Carteret Islands are disappearing under a rising Pacific Ocean, and their 2,500 inhabitants face an uncertain future.
- Oxfam America denounces death threats against rights advocate in Peru
- Calls on the authorities to investigate death threats and intimidation.
- In cyclone-ravaged Bangladesh, worst may be yet to come
- As Bangladesh begins to recover from Cyclone Sidr, a changing climate means that more disasters lie ahead.
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