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- 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
- 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.
- Building a better well
- Steady supply of water in rehabilitated well brings joy to a community in southern Ethiopia.
- Credibility Crunch
- Food, poverty, and climate change: an agenda for rich-country leaders
- First the rivers, then the forests: a fragile balance
- Rural communities are struggling to survive as they lose their resources one at a time.
- "This is the future"
- 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 ...
- 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.
- "We are united"
- An indigenous Q'eq'chi community in Guatemala struggles to defend its agricultural land.
- Oxfam welcomes appointment of Stern on climate
- President-Elect Obama's commitment to re-engage in global climate talks praised
- Coffee growers earn a better price, protect the environment
- Oxfam America invests in eco-friendly coffee processing, and helps farmers grow a world-class crop.
- The Majaz effect
- What is the likely environmental impact of Minera Majaz's proposed copper mine?
- 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 ...
- Pollution risk at new gold mine in Ghana exposed
- Journalist in Ghana writes about environmental risks, wins award.
- 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.
- New attention on ChevronTexaco case
- President of Ecuador speaks out on environment as indigenous leaders press for justice at shareholder meeting.
- 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.
- In Cambodia, climate extremes threaten an ancient community
- Unpredictable floods are destroying the rice crops of the Cham people, forcing families to migrate in a search for survival.
- Improvements big and small in East Asia
- Oxfam America partner Green Watershed helps local villagers preserve their way of life through their own expertise.
- Green Watershed wins second award of the year
- Oxfam partner in China wins water conservation-themed competition.
- Green Watershed earns top honors
- Oxfam partner wins award for sustainable development project in China.
- Farmers battle effects of changing seasons
- In Papua New Guinea, generations of farming knowledge can no longer guarantee subsistence farmers a stable food supply.
- 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.
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