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- 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 ...
- Darfur video Q & A
- We asked Oxfam supporters to tell us what they wanted to know about the crisis in Darfur—and received an overwhelming response.
- 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.
- The Right to Survive
- The humanitarian challenge for the twenty-first century
- 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 ...
- 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.
- 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
- Community-based human rights impact assessments: Practical lessons
- Report from an international meeting, Canada 2010
- One step forward in campaign to end violence against women
- El Salvador’s legislative assembly passes new law regarding violence against women.
- A set of simple water pumps improves life in a Gambian village
- 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.
- 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 ...
- Food crisis grips Sahel region of West Africa, 10 million affected
- Poor rains last year reduced the size of harvests and dried out pastureland across the region.
- 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 ...
- Oxfam America to promote the rights of communities impacted by oil, gas, and mining development
- Aid group calls for mandatory disclosure legislation
- Photos, panel discussion demonstrate impact of oil extraction on Nigeria and other African nations
- Oxfam expert explains that oil revenues do not always translate into money to fight poverty.
- 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.
- "Africa's future is up to Africans"
- President Obama's first speech in sub-Saharan Africa hits important points on good governance, responsible use of natural resources, trade, and defeating ...
- OXFAMExchange Fall 2009
- Facing Down Hunger: The global food crisis one year later
- International Labour Organization urges suspension of mining operations in Guatemala
- UN bodies push the government on rights violations in mining cases.
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