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- 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 ...
- Taking steps toward gender equity
- In Tamil Nadu, India, Oxfam study finds approaches that work.
- OXFAMExchange Spring 2008
- Raising a generation without fear
- 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 ...
- A new phase of the struggle in South Africa
- Gerard Payne of the AIDS Consortium is helping community organizations become stronger and more effective in the fight against HIV and AIDS.
- Training and jobs to empower rural women
- The construction of greenhouses creates employment, which empowers them economically, while training leads to the emergence of new women leaders.
- In retirement, Fernando finds a golden opportunity helping coir workers
- Four years after the tsunami, the women are earning double and in some cases triple what they made before.
- Sexual violence in DR Congo
- Oxfam's striking short film, shot in eastern Congo in 2008, elevates the stories of women working to overcome brutality and asks viewers to take action by ...
- In Her Own Words
- Iraqi women talk about their greatest concerns and challenges.
- Gradual change in the status of women
- Saving for Change doesn't just help women earn money—it is a means to change their role in the family and the village.
- Women are key to solving AIDS crisis in Southern Africa
- Discrimination is at the root of the disproportionate burden of the disease on women.
- Communities fight against AIDS in South Africa
- Local organizations help people with HIV and AIDS learn to live positively.
- Cuba: Emerging from the crisis
- After 15 years of economic crisis, Cuba is still facing significant challenges. But there are real signs that Cuba is starting to move forward.
- Oxfam in Cuba
- After 15 years of economic crisis, Cuba is still facing significant challenges. But there are real signs that Cuba is starting to move forward.
- Rethinking culture: changing practices and proverbs in Oromiya
- OXFAMExchange Spring 2002
- Oxfam launches the Make Trade Fair campaign
- OXFAMExchange Winter 2003
- Mary Robinson on human rights, functional literacy in West Africa, and saving the family farm
- OXFAMExchange Spring 2004
- Engendering an Equitable Society: Focus on Women's Rights
- Oxfam funds fuel-efficient stoves that help women
- A $132,000 program helps thousands of displaced women stay safer in Darfur by providing 4,200 households with fuel-efficient stoves.
- New laws and new-found respect for women in Mozambique
- Legal reforms help widows provide for their children, and will change the status of women.
- Guardians of culture hold key to change
- Local traditional healers work to transform views of women—and their role in Mozambique society.
- Ethiopian women rediscover role as peace builders
- By raising awareness of the suffering produced by conflicts, women help find alternatives to violence.
- Dream of rights for women
- The vision of equity drives new effort to defend rights and defeat HIV/AIDS.
- Balancing culture, new law in Mozambique
- Educating traditional leaders builds respect for women and their rights in the new Family Law.
- A new campaign led by women
- A call for more resources and better laws, along with education for women and all young people, will reduce violence.
- Zimbabwe looks to new domestic violence law
- Women's Coalition writes a progressive law and pushes it through Parliament.
- Una vida diferente: women create a different life
- A campaign in El Salvador to reduce violence against women is forcing people to take a hard look at their culture and painful history of violence.
- Profile: Gilma Molina de Vasquez
- How one woman redefined her relationship with her husband and family to become a community leader.
- Oxfam Impact January 2009
- Altering the course of water—and women's lives.
- Iraqi women in the grip of 'silent emergency' despite security gains, warns Oxfam
- A surge of state aid for women and their families, investment in basic services, urgently needed; 75 percent of widows interviewed not receiving pension.
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