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- 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
- Oxfam America to promote the rights of communities impacted by oil, gas, and mining development
- Aid group calls for mandatory disclosure legislation
- 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.
- International Labour Organization urges suspension of mining operations in Guatemala
- UN bodies push the government on rights violations in mining cases.
- Troop surge in Afghanistan must not endanger civilians, warn aid agencies
- Caught in the Conflict
- Civilians and the international security strategy in Afghanistan
- Rankin in Congo: 'Their humanity was what I wanted people to notice'
- In 2009, celebrity photographer Rankin returned to Congo where he captured the love stories and portraits of people struggling through years of conflict in the ...
- New potential for conflict in Peru’s Amazon
- Madre de Dios could be next flashpoint in ongoing confrontation between indigenous communities and foreign oil, gas, and mining companies.
- The struggle continues in Ghana
- Members of a farmers’ group continue their long struggle to claim their rights in court, but one farmer loses everything in a surprise legal move.
- Protect and serve or train and equip?
- US security assistance and protection of civilians
- President Karzai’s new government must deliver on schools, midwives and police say aid agencies
- 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
- Crisis in Honduras: Oxfam expresses concerns
- Following the arrest and expulsion of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya on June 29, Oxfam is closely following events in the country.
- Obama's visit to Africa: Time for a new partnership founded on transparency and shared responsibility
- New report reveals shared experiences of African Americans and Latinos
- Oxfam calls for an end to violence in the Peruvian Amazon
- Aid agency urges US government to help resolve the crisis
- Oxfam calls on mining company to respect human rights
- Update on protection of civilians in eastern Congo's peace process
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 ...
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