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- Oxfam praises new bill to restore Gulf Coast communities, ecosystems and create jobs post-oil spill
- Protect Community Rights and Resources Fact Sheet
- Over 60 percent of the world's poorest people live in countries rich in natural resources—but they rarely share in the wealth. Too often, poor communities have ...
- Smart Development
- Oxfam's briefing paper on making aid work.
- Ownership in practice: The key to smart development
- Countries should provide foreign aid in ways that strengthen the voice of poor people and the responsiveness of the state.
- Predictable, multiyear aid is life-saving in difficult contexts
- An interview with Melissa Phillips, NGO Secretariat Coordinator in Juba, Southern Sudan.
- OXFAMExchange Spring 2009
- The power of resilience
- Field Report from Southern Sudan
- Smart Development in Practice Series
- The Right to Survive
- The humanitarian challenge for the twenty-first century
- Oxfam America President Ray Offenheiser on Bloggingheads.tv
- Mark Leon Goldberg of UN Dispatch and The American Prospect, chats with Ray Offenheiser about how we can bring US foreign assistance and foreign aid practices ...
- Enhancing US aid effectiveness: The state of play and ways forward
- This panel considers three important policy processes, and the historic opportunity they offer to reshape US foreign assistance and global development policy.
- Follow the Money
- Standing at the pump, watching the numbers tick away, do you ever wonder where the money goes? People on the other end of the pipeline are wondering too.
- Copper in the Clouds
- In Peru, local governments, community leaders, and farmers say the proposed Rio Blanco Copper Mine would be devastating to local communities. Where drinking ...
- Standing up for justice
- In 2005, thousands of unarmed Peruvians peacefully protested against the Rio Blanco Copper Mine. Cleofé Neyra describes how she and 27 others were tortured and ...
- Water is life
- High in the cloud forest of Piura, local communities understand the importance of the area's water and medicinal plants. They warn the proposed Rio Blanco ...
- A new generation
- Meet Eneyda, a young Machiguenga woman navigating the confusing waters connecting her remote indigenous community, and the environmental threats and economic ...
- Sabodala: Poverty in a land of gold
- In Senegal, a gold mine has displaced farmers from their fields, leaving hundreds without jobs or a decent way to make a living. Oxfam America's partner is ...
- 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 ...
- Oxfam's oil, gas, and mining program
- Oxfam advocates just government policies and corporate practices in the oil, gas, and mining industries, and supports the right of communities to participate ...
- 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.
- Community-based human rights impact assessments: Practical lessons
- Report from an international meeting, Canada 2010
- Relief agency hails Obama's historic endorsement of indigenous people's rights
- Big challenges remain for managing Ghana's oil future
- 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.
- Oxfam calls for community rights improvements as IFC reviews standards
- Oxfam's humanitarian response department expands into public health
- New public health practice is part of a three-pronged effort to sharpen the effectiveness of the agency's emergency response. The other two components are ...
- What Happened at the G20?
- Initial analysis of the London summit
- Oxfam reaction to G8 communique
- Oxfam outlines four stepping stones to the G20's 'new world order'
- Cambodia sees Oxfam as a partner in petroleum lawmaking process
- Public forum on extractive industries attracts attention of national government.
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