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Beyond Viktor Bout
A briefing paper on why the United States needs an Arms Trade Treaty
Looking them in the eye
In Ghana, a young woman learns to lead in a village flooded by water draining from an underground mine shaft.
Knowledge is power
Across Ghana, new leaders are emerging to voice concerns about the environment and basic justice.
Leadership from the bottom up
Oxfam’s partner in Ghana, Wacam, is building a network of activists – many of them women – and helping them learn technical as well as leadership skills.
In a city of water
Heavy rains in Senegal have turned the low-lying city of Pikine into a lake. Oxfam and a local partner are working to improve the conditions of life for those ...
Beyond Sudan's big day
What next for one of the least developed places on earth?
For a Safer Tomorrow
This report, based on Oxfam International's experience in most of the world's conflicts, sets out an ambitious agenda to protect civilians in times of warfare.
OXFAMExchange Spring 2009
The power of resilience
In promoting public health, compassion is Margaret Asewe's best medicine
In Chad, Margaret Asewe worked with some of the first refugees from Darfur. In the summer of 2007, she returned to confront another rainy season and thousands ...
Darfur five years on: five steps forward
Five years since the crisis in Darfur, Sudan, first erupted, 4.5 million people are caught in its grip and are in need of aid. As the violence continues, that ...
Geneva Convention turns 60
New respect needed for international law designed to protect civilians.
Saving Lives 24/7: Flood response in Senegal
Emergency fund allows fast response to severe flooding in suburbs of Dakar.
People-centered resilience
Working with vulnerable farmers towards climate change adaptation and food security
The rains have come, but food crisis continues to afflict West Africa, hitting Chad hard
With harvests still weeks away, Oxfam is increasingly concerned about the situation in western Chad.
Saving for Change
Oxfam America has pioneered an alternative microfinance model called Saving for Change, which self-replicates on a large scale and at a low cost, serving those ...
Oxfam and partners hail Ghana for enacting law on petroleum revenue
As Ghana joins the league of oil producing nations, Oxfam America and its local partners congratulate the country for putting in place the legal framework for ...
Clock is ticking for refugees fleeing Ivory Coast
Oxfam warns of potential regional crisis as thousands flee Ivory Coast
Thousands pour over Ivory Coast border, with more on the way
Risk of another forgotten emergency in Africa as thousands flee Ivory Coast violence
Ghana adopts West African mining principles
After almost two years of its enactment by West Africa’s regional body, Ghana joins Senegal in adopting the principles on mining in the region.
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
A set of simple water pumps improves life in a Gambian village
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
Coping during the hungry season in Gambia
Nyama Filly Fofana leads the way.
ECOWAS sets up committee on mining reforms
Latest step in effort to improve, standardize requirements for oil, gas, and mining in West Africa.
Some justice for a palm tree
Inadvertent destruction of an oil palm tree leads to highest compensation ever.
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