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- The Right of Indigenous Peoples to Prior Consultation: The Situation in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru
- This study illustrates the barriers to exercising the right to prior consultation and consent in each of these four countries, and is intended to encourage ...
- The politics of partnership: How donors manage risk while letting recipients lead their own development
- This paper provides recommendations for the US government as it continues grappling with ways of improving foreign aid, taking lessons from successful donor ...
- Oxfam: US Government needs to be bolder in efforts to fight poverty
- Guatemala: Heart of our Mother Earth
- Indigenous Maya people in western Guatemala are calling on the government to suspend operations at the Marlin Mine, and investigate violent human rights ...
- Information: Let countries know what donors are doing
- In trying to improve US foreign aid, Oxfam America believes that we must listen to the people who know aid best: those who receive and deliver aid.
- Calling the shots under country ownership
- How should US foreign aid decisions be made to ensure that poor countries are in the lead?
- Looking to Sacha Inchi for their future
- How indigenous farmers are growing an ancient plant that promises to bring new opportunities—and money—to the central Amazonian jungle.
- Smart Development
- Oxfam's briefing paper on making aid work.
- Ownership in practice: The key to smart development
- Countries should provide foreign aid in ways that strengthen the voice of poor people and the responsiveness of the state.
- Predictable, multiyear aid is life-saving in difficult contexts
- An interview with Melissa Phillips, NGO Secretariat Coordinator in Juba, Southern Sudan.
- Field Report from Southern Sudan
- Smart Development in Practice Series
- The Right to Survive
- The humanitarian challenge for the twenty-first century
- Oxfam America President Ray Offenheiser on Bloggingheads.tv
- Mark Leon Goldberg of UN Dispatch and The American Prospect, chats with Ray Offenheiser about how we can bring US foreign assistance and foreign aid practices ...
- Enhancing US aid effectiveness: The state of play and ways forward
- This panel considers three important policy processes, and the historic opportunity they offer to reshape US foreign assistance and global development policy.
- Copper in the Clouds
- In Peru, local governments, community leaders, and farmers say the proposed Rio Blanco Copper Mine would be devastating to local communities. Where drinking ...
- Standing up for justice
- In 2005, thousands of unarmed Peruvians peacefully protested against the Rio Blanco Copper Mine. Cleofé Neyra describes how she and 27 others were tortured and ...
- A new generation
- Meet Eneyda, a young Machiguenga woman navigating the confusing waters connecting her remote indigenous community, and the environmental threats and economic ...
- Fighting destiny
- A heroine considers her role in re-aligning attitudes in Peru.
- Relief agency hails Obama's historic endorsement of indigenous people's rights
- 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.
- Song of the Forest
- Indigenous people in Peru's Central Jungle look to the future while preserving their culture and traditions, deeply rooted in the past.
- "This is the future"
- After centuries of discrimination and a decade of legal work supported by Oxfam, the indigenous Chiquitano of eastern Bolivia people now have legal title to ...
- Waiting for justice
- In Peru, indigenous people are awaiting legislation that would uphold their rights—rights to be consulted about oil, gas, mining, and other economic ...
- Oxfam's humanitarian response department expands into public health
- New public health practice is part of a three-pronged effort to sharpen the effectiveness of the agency's emergency response. The other two components are ...
- What Happened at the G20?
- Initial analysis of the London summit
- Oxfam reaction to G8 communique
- Oxfam outlines four stepping stones to the G20's 'new world order'
- Coffee cooperatives still rebuilding after Stan
- How Guatamalan coffee cooperatives are recovering from heavy rains. Part I of III
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