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- A source of income, funded by savings
- Women in Central America are leading efforts to reduce poverty, the overall purpose of the Millennium Development Goals, through participation in Oxfam ...
- Sewing for Change
- Women from small savings groups win their share of a national bid.
- Waiting for justice
- In Peru, indigenous people are awaiting legislation that would uphold their rights—rights to be consulted about oil, gas, mining, and other economic ...
- Coffee cooperatives still rebuilding after Stan
- How Guatamalan coffee cooperatives are recovering from heavy rains. Part I of III
- The Andean challenge: getting there and catching your breath
- At 16,000 feet above sea level, the air is thin in the mountain hamlets of Peru. Oxfam America and its partner, Asociación Proyección, are reaching out to ...
- Calling Caylloma: mountain radio connects far-flung herders
- A newly installed network allows Peruvian herders to call for help fast.
- In Peru, Oxfam helps mountain hamlets prepare for the next bout of bad weather
- Acres of barley, gravity-fed sprinklers, and radio towers are some of the tools Oxfam has helped to provide Peruvian herders working high in the Andes.
- Instead of tea: Respect
- A savings group in Senegal breeds entrepreneurs and independence on just a few cents a week.
- International Labour Organization urges suspension of mining operations in Guatemala
- UN bodies push the government on rights violations in mining cases.
- 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.
- Food crisis in Guatemala
- Oxfam and local partners help farmers cope with crop failures, food shortages.
- Modern urban Latin music to prevent gender violence
- Oxfam America’s Gender Violence Prevention campaign supports local upcoming artists while contributing to cultural change and new youth practices.
- Multi-agency report reveals disparity in living conditions for Louisianans
- A Portrait of Louisiana
- Louisiana Human Development Report 2009
- Domestic Violence Bill set to protect women in Mozambique
- New legislation is a major achievement for Women's Coalition.
- Gender Mainstreaming During Disasters
- A tsunami research journal article
- Gender justice in disaster response
- Tsunami research brief: An examination of good practices and challenges for aid providers in promoting gender equity in India during and after the tsunami.
- Oxfam in Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean
- All across this diverse and beautiful territory, new faces of leadership are emerging. Women, rural communities, and small farmers are adding their voices to ...
- Oxfam in Southern Africa
- Having fought hard for freedom from colonial and racial oppression, millions of rural poor across southern Africa, particularly women, still struggle to ...
- Peru overturns decrees, starts dialogue
- The government of Peru and indigenous citizens to move from conflict to dialogue on land rights and the best way to consult native people as they work to ...
- 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 ...
- Our Land, Our Life
- The struggle of Carrie and Mary Dann, two Western Shoshone elders, to address the threat mining development poses to the sacred and environmentally sensitive ...
- 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 ...
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