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Starbucks takes step towards recognizing Ethiopian rights to coffee names. Campaigners urge company to follow through.
International agency Oxfam responded to a joint statement from coffee company Starbucks and the Government of Ethiopia in which Starbucks pledged not to oppose ...
New tool helps communities focus on human rights
A new system will help community members do their own analysis of the effects of foreign investment on human rights.
"Africa's future is up to Africans"
President Obama's first speech in sub-Saharan Africa hits important points on good governance, responsible use of natural resources, trade, and defeating ...
Oxfam Responds to National Coffee Association and Starbucks
Oxfam: Novartis PR offensive not enough to mask aggressive tactics
Oxfam targeted with email campaign as Novartis's legal action against India approaches climax
Influential member of US Congress calls on Novartis to reconsider its legal actions
Djimon Hounsou learns how US subsidies affect Africa
In June 2005, Academy Award-nominated actor Djimon Hounsou took a fact-finding mission to Mali on behalf of Oxfam's Make Trade Fair campaign. Oxfam's Lyndsay ...
In Prestea, Ghana, gold mine expansion threatens water sources
Communities are requesting a comprehensive evaluation of the impact of a new mining project and for their right to free, prior, and informed consent regarding ...
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.
Bill will galvanize trade in the fight against poverty
Oxfam reaction to WTO judgment on US cotton subsidies
New deadlines not enough to finalize a 'development' trade round
Empty promises
What happened to 'development' in the WTO's Doha Round?
New irrigation channel changes lives in Shasha Korke
An improved system to share water helps Ethiopian farmers switch to growing fruit and vegetables, improving health and increasing incomes.
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 ...
Cocoa farmers threatened by gold mine
Farmers in a small town seem more interested in keeping their farms than selling out—but the struggle to protect their land will be a hard one.
Historic House climate bill passes, provides resources for hardest hit
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 ...
OXFAMExchange Winter 2009
These are extraordinary times
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 urges miner to address community engagement practices
Backroom Deals Enable DR-CAFTA to Pass
Bad Trade Agreement Could Devastate Agriculture, Deepen Poverty in Central America
Farmers in the US speak out
Farmers in the US and Central America had similar concerns about DR-CAFTA.
A popular campaign
US-based activists played a significant role in forcing Congress to examine the merits of DR-CAFTA.
The struggle of Carrie and Mary Dann, two Western Shoshone elders, to address the threat mining development poses to the sacred and environmentally sensitive ...
Cultivating Poverty
The impact of US cotton subsidies on Africa
Investing in Destruction: Glamis Gold
Fairness in the Fields
A vision for the 2007 Farm Bill
How Does the USDA Farm Bill Proposal Measure Up?
Little progress at the G8 in Japan
In the end, the results fell short of what the world's poorest people require.
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