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- Gender justice in disaster response
- Tsunami research brief: An examination of good practices and challenges for aid providers in promoting gender equity in India during and after the tsunami.
- Deepening community engagement
- Tsunami research brief: A study of disaster preparedness programs in Sri Lanka that points to the importance of listening carefully to communities.
- Listening to disaster-affected communities
- An executive summary of "Collaboration in Crises"
- An open letter to the President
- Oxfam President Raymond C. Offenheiser appeals to President Obama to focus on key poverty-related issues.
- 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.
- Such important work
- The Advanced Center for Enabling Disaster Risk Reduction (ACEDRR) explores new ways of helping impoverished communities improve their resilience to future ...
- An Oxfam partner tackles hurricane disasters—past, present, and future
- Oxfam's local partner TRAC is joining hands with other agencies to ensure that hurricane Gustav recovery efforts are fair, coordinated, and forward-thinking.
- After the storm: Oxfam takes stock, rushes in aid
- Gustav hit trailers and vulnerable homes the hardest.
- Some people dread evacuations almost as much as hurricanes
- Leaving home in advance of a storm is costly and exhausting. Facing the prospect of having to do it more than once in short order makes some residents think ...
- 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.
- Just a boy: meeting child soldiers in eastern Congo
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- An aid worker's diary from Congo
- Helen Hawking, Oxfam's public health coordinator in eastern Congo, relates her day-by-day experiences coping with the crisis.
- Zimbabwe: hopes for a better 2009
- A new year's celebration hardly masks the troubles countless people face in a country crippled by hyperinflation and a cholera outbreak.
- In grip of Cholera, Zimbabwe marshalls messengers to spread the word on hygiene
- Zimbabwe launches a nationwide blitz to control, cure, and eliminate the disease.
- Disaster resilience is useful now
- Because disasters and development are intricately linked, disaster risk reduction projects can improve people's day to day lives.
- OXFAMExchange Winter 2006
- The Year of Disasters
- Building Common Ground
- How shared attitudes and concerns can create alliances between African-Americans and Latinos in a post-Katrina New Orleans
- OXFAMExchange Spring 2008
- Raising a generation without fear
- 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 in South America
- To their government officials and to the corporations who want to exploit their lands and natural resources, the indigenous and rural people of South America ...
- Oxfam in the Horn of Africa
- Drought. Conflict. Low crop prices. These are among the realities that poor people across the Horn of Africa face on a daily basis. But with new tools for ...
- New report documents the fading of the American dream
- New index is a single measure of well-being for all Americans based on indicators in three key areas: health, education and income.
- Gulf Coast housing plan is good news, but...
- A plan to expand workforce housing in Mississippi is welcomed, but advocates say the unmet housing needs in the state go way beyond what the plan will cover.
- Group lives up to its name: Coastal Women for Change
- Gulf Coast women join together to talk about what was happening in their community, what issues and problems they faced, and how these could be addressed.
- Designed to last, new "Lift House" holds promise for Louisiana
- A new concept takes shape and offers hope for residents of the Gulf that future hurricanes might inflict less, if any, property damage.
- OXFAMExchange Fall 2007
- Moving Toward Lasting Solutions in Gambia
- Forgotten Communities, Unmet Promises
- An unfolding tragedy on the Gulf Coast
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