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- Sahel food crisis: Where are we at the end of 2012?
- Good rainfall and better harvests have provided some relief, but challenges still remain as families work hard to recover.
- Sahel food crisis: "Now I have peace"
- Rather than distribute food to the hungry in Senegal, Oxfam partners are providing something even more valuable in an emergency: cash.
- Solidarity and sharing: How Chadians cope in a food crisis
- When one family in a community receives food during a distribution, many others often share a portion of it.
- La Oroya, Peru: Poisoned town
- American-owned Doe Run polluted this small mountain community for more than a decade. Now citizens are joining with Oxfam to hold the company accountable.
- La Oroya speaks to Washington
- Citizens of polluted city in Peru take their case to US Congress.
- Sahel food crisis: Farmers cope with food shortages
- Confronted with a poor 2011 harvest, farmers find creative ways to earn money to buy food.
- Sahel food crisis: Senegalese singer Baaba Maal performs benefit concert
- Maal visits drought-affected communities to raise awareness in growing Sahel crisis
- Sahel food crisis: Dry times in 2011 threaten ability to plant in 2012
- A farmer recounts the struggle to grow food and prepare for the 2012 growing season
- Sahel food crisis: Waiting for water--and the garden to grow--in Burkina Faso
- Women in Burkina Faso are growing produce to feed their families and to sell, but getting access to enough water for the enterprise is a daily challenge.
- Oxfam responds as hundreds of thousands flee Ivory Coast capital
- Fifty tons of relief supplies delivered to neighboring Liberia.
- Guatemalan government continues to ignore ruling of human rights commission
- Public events put spotlight on non-compliance with precautionary measures recommendation.
- Guatemalan human rights and environmental advocates under threat
- Oxfam calls on government to ensure safety of CALAS officials and investigate origins of death threats.
- A new law changes the landscape for Peru's indigenous people
- Oxfam and partners joined forces to support the consultation law, which gives communities greater decision-making power over their natural resources and ...
- Q&A: La Oroya's future
- A government decision could mean good news for families in Peru's most polluted town, and for their supporters here in the US. But the struggle to clean up La ...
- Conflict in Mali disrupts fragile food markets and threatens to escalate food crisis in West Africa
- In Kolda, Senegal, farmers are struggling to feed their families
- The last harvest of peanuts, a major cash crop in this region, plummeted by 60 percent leaving families with little money to buy the food they need.
- Food security concerns at World Food Day events in Ghana
- Land grabs for biofuels, and gender inequity take center stage.
- Marlin Mine: Violence and pollution lead to call for suspension
- Concerns about human rights violations and the environment in Guatemala lead indigenous communities to seek a suspension of mine operations in western ...
- Congress ramps up pressure on SEC to fully implement oil payment transparency law
- OXFAMExchange, Fall 2011
- Africa's last famine?
- Struggle in Sahel: 'If there's no pasture, nothing works'
- 'We've stayed on our ancestors' land and we've put up with everything, but if rain doesn't come, life would turn into a nightmare," says Koubra Hamid.
- As food crisis looms, the lean season hits early in northern Senegal
- An Oxfam team assesses the conditions around a group of small villages where many of the food reserves are now exhausted.
- New campaign calls on oil industry and Securities and Exchange Commission to support transparency law
- Case Study: Bolivian Government Consultation with the Guaraní Indigenous Peoples of Charagua Norte and Isoso
- Proposed hydrocarbons exploration project in San Isidro Block Santa Cruz, Bolivia
- The Right of Indigenous Peoples to Prior Consultation: The Situation in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru
- This study illustrates the barriers to exercising the right to prior consultation and consent in each of these four countries, and is intended to encourage ...
- Guatemala: Heart of our Mother Earth
- Indigenous Maya people in western Guatemala are calling on the government to suspend operations at the Marlin Mine, and investigate violent human rights ...
- Looking them in the eye
- In Ghana, a young woman learns to lead in a village flooded by water draining from an underground mine shaft.
- Knowledge is power
- Across Ghana, new leaders are emerging to voice concerns about the environment and basic justice.
- Leadership from the bottom up
- Oxfam’s partner in Ghana, Wacam, is building a network of activists – many of them women – and helping them learn technical as well as leadership skills.
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