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Oxfam Optimistic on Progress Between Starbucks and Ethiopia on Trademarking Initiative
International Labour Organization urges suspension of mining operations in Guatemala
UN bodies push the government on rights violations in mining cases.
Travelling down West Salvation Road
Travel in Darfur requires patience and time. Often, riding on the back of a donkey is the most reliable way to get where you want to go.
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.
A Seat at the Table
Step into the world where food is often scarce and difficult decisions have to be made every day.
Multi-agency report reveals disparity in living conditions for Louisianans
Oxfam reaction to WTO judgment on US cotton subsidies
New report reveals shared experiences of African Americans and Latinos
His childhood lost to war, teenager starts new life in Congo
A former child soldier, this young man now supports himself as a furniture-maker in a small shop in Goma.
Microinsurance builds resilience after tsunami
Fishing families in Andhra Pradesh, India are relying on microinsurance to keep them out of debt to money lenders and help them save a little of what they earn.
The Coir Industry in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka
A tsunami research journal article
Improving livelihoods after disasters
Tsunami research brief: Studies of paddy agriculture and the coconut fiber industry in Sri Lanka point to ways aid providers can help improve incomes.
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 ...
Just a boy: meeting child soldiers in eastern Congo
Humanitarian press officer Rebecca Wynn reports from eastern Congo, where a wave of violence has forced more than 250,000 people to flee their homes since ...
Zimbabwe: hopes for a better 2009
A new year's celebration hardly masks the troubles countless people face in a country crippled by hyperinflation and a cholera outbreak.
The singing wells of Dubluq
How herders in southern Ethiopia find water for their cows in the deadly winter dry season.
Building Common Ground
How shared attitudes and concerns can create alliances between African-Americans and Latinos in a post-Katrina New Orleans
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 ...
New report documents the fading of the American dream
New index is a single measure of well-being for all Americans based on indicators in three key areas: health, education and income.
Group lives up to its name: Coastal Women for Change
Gulf Coast women join together to talk about what was happening in their community, what issues and problems they faced, and how these could be addressed.
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 Portrait of Mississippi
Mississippi Human Development Report 2009
West Africa asks, "Where is my gold?"
Oxfam America and leading civil society organizations in West Africa are launching a week of action aimed at raising public awareness about the mining industry ...
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.
Women are key to solving AIDS crisis in Southern Africa
Discrimination is at the root of the disproportionate burden of the disease on women.
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.
Bolivian indigenous groups attacked
Oxfam expresses solidarity with Chiquitano indigenous people in eastern Bolivia after their offices are ransacked and leaders are threatened.
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