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- Ethiopian women rediscover role as peace builders
- By raising awareness of the suffering produced by conflicts, women help find alternatives to violence.
- A Darfur mother faces bleak choices in camp for 15,000 people
- Collecting firewood and fodder are tasks full of risk for this Darfur mother. But without them, she won't be able to care for her family.
- Crossing the cultural divide
- In the mountains of Peru, indigenous leaders are taking a multicultural approach to overcoming centuries of racism and discrimination—and fighting poverty.
- Boredom, worry fill the days for many in Darfur camps
- For many of the two million people displaced in Darfur, home is now a crowded camp far from the work and social interactions that once framed their lives.
- Balancing culture, new law in Mozambique
- Educating traditional leaders builds respect for women and their rights in the new Family Law.
- Eastern DR Congo as bad as 2008, says Oxfam
- Agency scales up to provide water and sanitation to 150,000 newly displaced people
- After the floods in Mozambique, it's time to build the future
- As recurring floods wreck their homes and livelihoods, people in Mozambique are looking to the future and thinking about new ways to avoid disaster.
- A journey across Darfur imparts a critical lesson
- With gunshots rattling the air, the pleas of Darfur youths take on a whole new urgency.
- With early warning, small problems in Ethiopia won't grow
- Around the southern Ethiopia border town of Moyale, where herders compete to eke a living from often-parched pasture land, a mysterious disease is slowly ...
- Who is Nick Anderson? He's Oxfam America's Youth Ambassador to Darfur
- In late July, 2008, Oxfam America sent Nick Anderson, a rising high school senior, to Darfur. His mission was to find a way for American teenagers to connect ...
- Volunteers in Darfur camps help improve health conditions for everyone
- Helping prevent the spread of waterborne diseases among 400,000 displaced people in camps scattered across Darfur and Chad is no small task. Volunteers are ...
- The semblance of disaster
- Carrying out realistic disaster simulations is one way Oxfam ensures that its staff members are prepared to respond quickly and effectively.
- The second life of litter
- Little is wasted in poor Darfur: recycling is a way of life.
- Still shell-shocked by hurricane Stan, Guatemalan coffee farmers try to recover
- Oxfam provides $100,000 grant to help farmers rebuild.
- Aid still at 1993 level despite increase
- Oxfam warns of devastating impact for Afghan civilians if violence intensifies
- Meeting humanitarian needs on the Kenya border with Somalia
- Rebuilding lives in Darfur
- Responding to the emergency needs of the people.
- Peruvian villagers look beyond subsistence to their basic rights
- Modest projects to grow food lead to a conviction to do more for a village and its children.
- Oxfam program head reflects on her years in Darfur
- Caroline Nursey has been involved with the humanitarian response in Darfur, Sudan, since the crisis there erupted—first as a regional director and most ...
- Oxfam Impact January 2009
- Altering the course of water—and women's lives.
- Oxfam Impact January 2008
- Landmark victory for indigenous people
- Oxfam Impact April 2008
- Where the ground remembers the rain
- Oxfam applauds Congress for passing Hurricane Housing Recovery Act
- Gulf Coast advocates play key role in passage of legislation
- Affordable housing needs to be part of disaster planning, says Oxfam America
- As new hurricane season arrives, urgent needs remain unaddressed
- Mining conflicts in Peru: Condition critical
- New Zimbabwe government must prioritize worsening humanitarian crisis
- July was Darfur's worst-ever month for violence toward aid workers
- Spirit world
- Acknowledging and working with spiritual leaders is essential to long-term changes leading to better respect for women and their rights.
- World Bank Announces Funding Approval for Peru Pipeline Project
- The IFC pledges $300 million to fund Camisea II pipeline project; Oxfam warns of serious implications for indigenous communities and the environment.
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