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- Song of the Sirens
- Why the US–Andean FTAs undermine sustainable development and regional integration
- Ending the R&D Crisis in Public Health
- Take Action: Global Food Crisis
- Already 854 million people on our planet suffer from hunger. Now, as food prices climb high and fast, conditions are becoming worse and threatening the ...
- 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 ...
- Improving the wells improves community health in flood-prone parts of El Salvador
- Capped wells lined with a volcanic-rock filter provide families in Salvadoran communities with clean drinking water.
- 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.
- Hardest hit: El Salvador
- “Healthy wells,” tightly sealed to keep out contamination after floods, provide clean drinking and cooking water for families.
- Humanitarian crisis imminent in Somali refugee camp, Oxfam warns
- In Peru, farmers and shopkeepers wonder how they will begin again after destructive rains
- Heavy rainfall in Peru has caused flooding and left widespread damage, including the destruction of homes, crops, and small businesses.
- Rains across Peru destroy crops, small businesses, and thousands of homes
- Oxfam partner works to install toilets and distribute hygiene kits to families living in temporary shelters.
- Lifeblood at risk
- In northern Peru, small-scale farmers can earn more by growing organic products. They say the rush to mine for copper in the mountains above their farms would ...
- Oxfam emergency response experts assess quake in Chile
- The five-member team, including water engineers, will be ready to help local partners who can respond to the 8.8-magnitude temblor.
- Tsunami warning passes as staff move in to Chile
- The long road home
- As the rainy season approaches, providing emergency shelter materials to those who have lost their houses is one of Oxfam's top priorities.
- British High Court freezes mine company assets
- Monterrico Metals will be required to compensate injured people and their communities if courts in the UK find the company responsible for human rights ...
- A perfect storm is driving millions into poverty
- More than one billion people now face chronic hunger—and more could join their ranks if we don't act now. With increasing food prices, droughts and floods, and ...
- A journey to Zimbabwe with Emile Hirsch
- As the fight against cholera continues in Zimbabwe, a public health worker documents her travels alongside the actor and Oxfam Ambassador.
- 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.
- Muriel's story
- Muriel Saragoussi uses her voice to ensure that women's needs are taken into account in all environmental policies in Brazil.
- Giada de Laurentiis marks World Food Day with trip to Peru
- Why should water, sanitation, and hygiene advocates lead on aid reform?
- AidNow series
- Lessons on how PEPFAR can be integrated into a country's own health system
- PEPFAR's evolving role in Mozambique is a model for countries that have only just begun to hold donors accountable to their national health priorities.
- Climate change affecting Peru right now
- Farmers report changing weather and negative effects on livelihoods.
- In Mudzi, shortages of fuel and medicine compound challenges of tackling cholera epidemic
- Numerous challenges confront aid workers as they race to stem the spread of cholera in Zimbabwe.
- Oxfam calls for an end to violence in the Peruvian Amazon
- Aid agency urges US government to help resolve the crisis
- Oxfam: More than 3 million face death while Berlusconi and the G8 fiddle
- Oxfam calls on mining company to respect human rights
- Mugged: Poverty in Your Coffee Cup
- In this report, Oxfam calls for the major players in the coffee industry to support a Coffee Rescue Plan to overcome the current crisis and create a more ...
- Resource revenues elusive in Peru
- Money from mines and pipelines is hard to track, and not obviously helping the poorest people in the country.
- Fighting cholera, Oxfam helps clinics in Congo with clean water
- Outbreaks of cholera are just one of the consequences of Congo's underinvestment in everything from roads to health clinics to clean water.
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- Loss of a leader in Ghana May 17, 2013
- Simple and Effective: System of Rice Intensification in Vietnam May 16, 2013
- Salvadoran activist to DC policymakers: “We are on a journey together.” May 16, 2013
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- With paper and pen, capturing a refugee’s reality May 15, 2013
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