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- After the quake: Preventing disease
- Oxfam has built latrines and bathing stalls, and provided basic necessities, such as soap and toothbrushes to thousands of people living temporarily in camps, ...
- Impact of climate change on response providers and socially vulnerable communities in the US
- Federal disaster programs, plans, and policies seldom address climate change or social vulnerability. Homeland security policy could be revised to accommodate ...
- Community-based human rights impact assessments: Practical lessons
- Report from an international meeting, Canada 2010
- A house for Miss Betty
- An innovative housing program in the US Gulf Coast led by Oxfam America partner TRAC is taking housing in flood-prone areas to new heights.
- A set of simple water pumps improves life in a Gambian village
- Oxfam on the ground in Haiti: Captured in photos
- One month after the earthquake, Oxfam is providing water, latrines, plastic sheeting, and relief materials–as well as cash payments for work—to thousands who ...
- Climate change wake-up call
- You know about global warming. You may already be doing your part to protect the environment. But, climate change is a human issue too—it's hitting the ...
- What’s in a bar of soap
- In the crowded camps of Pakistan, parents talk to Oxfam's Jane Beesley about the importance and challenges of keeping their families clean.
- 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 ...
- 100 people pushed into poverty every minute by economic crisis
- G20 must put fight against poverty at the center of global economic reforms
- Global leaders must not squander historic opportunity for reform.
- Gulf Coast government guide
- A Directory of the National, State, and Local Officials Representing Coastal Mississippi
- Questions and answers on Novartis and the Glivec patent case in India
- Ending the R&D Crisis in Public Health
- Take Action: Global Food Crisis
- Already 854 million people on our planet suffer from hunger. Now, as food prices climb high and fast, conditions are becoming worse and threatening the ...
- Improving the wells improves community health in flood-prone parts of El Salvador
- Capped wells lined with a volcanic-rock filter provide families in Salvadoran communities with clean drinking water.
- Fishermen prepare for the worst with BP oil spill
- Gulf Coast communities deal with the spill's impact on livelihoods and worry about the recovery process.
- Oil spill presents array of threats to Gulf Coast
- Oxfam supports community efforts to respond to the spill.
- Resilience and determination
- Gulf Coast organizations defending worker and immigrant rights in the aftermath of Katrina
- Rallying for rights
- Farmworkers in North Carolina take their case to RJ Reynolds.
- Hardest hit: Louisiana
- A house built on pilings – a lift house – can withstand hurricane-force winds and rains.
- Hardest hit: El Salvador
- “Healthy wells,” tightly sealed to keep out contamination after floods, provide clean drinking and cooking water for families.
- Business poised to push governments on climate deal
- New tool helps communities focus on human rights
- A new system will help community members do their own analysis of the effects of foreign investment on human rights.
- Biloxi braces for an uncertain future
- In a city already battling poverty and a legacy of severe hurricanes, the BP oil spill could bring a different kind of disaster.
- OXFAMExchange Fall 2009
- Facing Down Hunger: The global food crisis one year later
- Humanitarian crisis imminent in Somali refugee camp, Oxfam warns
- The long road home
- As the rainy season approaches, providing emergency shelter materials to those who have lost their houses is one of Oxfam's top priorities.
- Ten Point Plan to Change Course in Afghanistan
- Oxfam America's memo to President Obama
- A perfect storm is driving millions into poverty
- More than one billion people now face chronic hunger—and more could join their ranks if we don't act now. With increasing food prices, droughts and floods, and ...
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