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- Human rights violations follow the money
- Groundbreaking hearings on the responsibility of the World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank to respect human rights exposes violations related to loans ...
- Early rains reveal vulnerability of many communities in El Salvador
- The rainy season has only just begun and El Salvador is already mourning its first landslide victims.
- 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.
- Chile: Struggling for the right to decide
- Farmers use the law to defend their water and their rights—but can't block a massive tailings dam.
- Conflict surrounds expansion of Peru gold mine
- Local communities turn to legal measures to protect land, water.
- Extractive Sectors and the Poor
- Corporate Social Responsibility in the Mining Sector in Peru
- A Proposed Mine in Tambogrande, Peru: An Alternative Look
- OXFAMExchange Winter 2008
- Hard Questions about Ghana's Gold Boom
- OXFAMExchange Fall 2002
- What's in your coffee? Oxfam's coffee campaign. Plus Afghanistan, Make Trade Fair campaign, and the Hopi people's struggle for clean, safe drinking water.
- OXFAMExchange Spring 2006
- Challenging Injustice
- Oxfam preps for oil and mining's new focus
- American, Chinese, and Australian companies look to Cambodia.
- Oxfam America partner Dr. Juan Almendares receives humanitarian award
- "My greatest inspiration was my mother...When I graduated from the university, I had three callings: To work on behalf of the poor, to educate, and to dedicate ...
- More valuable than gold
- Andrea Perera explores how, for those living on gold deposits in Ghana, free, prior, and informed consent means the right to define the terms of development ...
- Interview: Humberto Piaguaje
- Humberto Piaguaje is the representative of the Secoya people to the Assembly of Delegates of Communities Affected by Texaco.
- In Texistepeque, El Salvador, farmers question wisdom of relying on mining
- Concerns about water and land lead to a debate about the role of mining in long-term economic development.
- West African countries endorse regional mining sector policy
- Number of people affected by climate disaster up 54 percent by 2015
- In Jiabi, Chinese government and local people build dike together
- Oxfam partner invites villagers and county officials to share ideas about development and the environment.
- Ghana's president promises disclosure of oil contracts
- Mills takes step toward greater transparency, regulation.
- For resettled community, not all are satisfied with new home
- New clinic doesn't quite make up for lost lands, higher expenses for displaced farmers.
- Demolished Ghanaian village wins court decision
- Mining company gets bill for houses, school destroyed in 1997.
- With early warning, small problems in Ethiopia won't grow
- Around the southern Ethiopia border town of Moyale, where herders compete to eke a living from often-parched pasture land, a mysterious disease is slowly ...
- The semblance of disaster
- Carrying out realistic disaster simulations is one way Oxfam ensures that its staff members are prepared to respond quickly and effectively.
- Río Blanco: history of a mismatch in Peru
- Here is a summary of the facts that have marked the relationship between the mining company and the local communities.
- Peruvian villagers look beyond subsistence to their basic rights
- Modest projects to grow food lead to a conviction to do more for a village and its children.
- President Saca speaks out against mining in El Salvador
- El Salvador's President Elias Antonio Saca announced that his government would not give out any mining permits in El Salvador.
- Ghana's Big Test
- Oil's challenge to democratic development
- Affordable housing needs to be part of disaster planning, says Oxfam America
- As new hurricane season arrives, urgent needs remain unaddressed
- Mining conflicts in Peru: Condition critical
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