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Climate change wake-up call
You know about global warming. You may already be doing your part to protect the environment. But, climate change is a human issue too—it's hitting the ...
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
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 ...
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.
Thank you from Oxfam and Ethiopian coffee farmers
Starbucks and Ethiopia finalized a trademark agreement, ending their dispute and bringing both sides together in partnership to help Ethiopian farmers.
OXFAMExchange Fall 2009
Facing Down Hunger: The global food crisis one year later
International Labour Organization urges suspension of mining operations in Guatemala
UN bodies push the government on rights violations in mining cases.
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 ...
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.
Oxfam: More than 3 million face death while Berlusconi and the G8 fiddle
Camp conditions in Somalia are among worst this aid worker has ever seen
Shelter, clean water, food, medicine—all of these are needed in camps for displaced people in Somalia.
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 ...
The singing wells of Dubluq
How herders in southern Ethiopia find water for their cows in the deadly winter dry season.
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 ...
Oxfam boosts aid effort to thousands fleeing new fighting in Somalia
Women are key to solving AIDS crisis in Southern Africa
Discrimination is at the root of the disproportionate burden of the disease on women.
Pasture pressure
Erratic rains and encroaching bush limits grasslands for herders in southern Ethiopia.
In Ethiopia, hunger lurks as rain begins to fall
4.6 million people now need emergency assistance as drought and high food prices take their toll.
Bolivian indigenous groups attacked
Oxfam expresses solidarity with Chiquitano indigenous people in eastern Bolivia after their offices are ransacked and leaders are threatened.
First the rivers, then the forests: a fragile balance
Rural communities are struggling to survive as they lose their resources one at a time.
"This is the future"
After centuries of discrimination and a decade of legal work supported by Oxfam, the indigenous Chiquitano people of eastern Bolivia now have legal title to ...
"Without land there is no life"
Elba Flores, head of research at the Center for Legal Studies and Social Research (CEJIS), describes the struggle of the Chiquitano people to overcome racism.
Oxfam America applauds Peruvian Congress action to uphold rights of indigenous people
Defending the people, and Lake Izabal
Despite threats to her life, Eloyda Mejía raises awareness about industrial mining near a beautiful lake in eastern Guatemala.
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