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- Actor visits the Democratic Republic of Congo with International Aid Agency Oxfam
- The statistics of gender violence in El Salvador
- More that 15 percent of all Salvadorans don't consider acts of sexual violence a crime, according to a public opinion poll about gender-based violence.
- Ghosts of Christmas past
- Protecting Congolese civilians from the LRA
- Background
- Since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, some progress has been made in Afghanistan, such as in health and education. Yet overall progress has been slow and ...
- In border village in Gambia, hardships hit everybody
- Protect and serve or train and equip?
- US security assistance and protection of civilians
- A Fragile Future
- Why scaling down MONUC too soon could spell disaster for the Congo
- As villagers flee new fighting in Congo, Oxfam works to bring them clean water
- Many are now sheltering with host families and often crowded into single-room houses with poor access to clean water and sanitation.
- Waking the Devil
- The impact of forced disarmament on civilians in the Kivus
- Oxfam calls for an end to violence in the Peruvian Amazon
- Aid agency urges US government to help resolve the crisis
- His childhood lost to war, teenager starts new life in Congo
- A former child soldier, this young man now supports himself as a furniture-maker in a small shop in Goma.
- Camp conditions in Somalia are among worst this aid worker has ever seen
- Shelter, clean water, food, medicine—all of these are needed in camps for displaced people in Somalia.
- Rape: one global step toward stopping it
- A new bill proposes a five-year strategy to address violence against women in countries around the world, particularly during times of conflict and ...
- Eyewitness in Congo: Godefroid Marhegane
- A first-hand account from staff member Godefroid Marhegane, who lives in Goma with his wife and six children.
- Escalation of the crisis in Congo: November 2008
- A fresh wave of conflict in eastern Congo has forced a new round of displacement and violence.
- The war just got closer
- Humanitarian press officer Rebecca Wynn reports from eastern Congo, where a wave of violence has forced more than 250,000 people to flee their homes since ...
- 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.
- Take Action: Democratic Republic of Congo
- According to Jan Egeland, the UN humanitarian chief in DRC from 2003-06, casualties in Congo amount to "a tsunami every month, year in and year out, for the ...
- Oxfam boosts aid effort to thousands fleeing new fighting in Somalia
- 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.
- 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 ...
- Mission incomplete
- Why civilians remain at risk in eastern Chad
- Arms Without Borders
- Why a globalized trade needs global controls
- Between Hope and Fear in Northern Uganda
- Challenges on the ground and an urgent need for peace
- "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 ...
- Conflict surges in Congo
- Atrocities are being committed against villagers in remote areas of Eastern Congo, where fighting between the Congolese army and the FDLR rebel group ...
- Grave concerns over conditions for civilians who escaped Sri Lanka's war zone
- Pakistan faces greatest internal displacement of people in its history; Oxfam doubles aid effort
- Thousands at risk as families flee Pakistan conflict
- Oxfam evacuates aid workers from Chad capital
- Oxfam has evacuated its international staff from its N'Djamena office, following the latest upsurge in fighting in the Chadian capital.
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