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- For architect, supporting the poor is best kind of building
- Indira Aryarathne of the Institute for Participatory Interaction in Development investigated the role of women in disaster risk reduction programs in Sri Lanka.
- Fighting off starvation in Zimbabwe
- After a poor harvest and subsequent drought depleted food supplies, Oxfam partners distributed food and seeds to reduce the need for future aid.
- "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 ...
- 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.
- 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.
- Field report from Afghanistan
- Smart Development in Practice series
- Oxfam on the ground in Haiti: Scaling up
- An estimated one million people in and around Port-au-Prince have lost their homes, forcing many into makeshift temporary camps. Oxfam is providing essentials ...
- US legislators, Oxfam partners discuss gold mining in Ghana
- Meeting focuses on the impact of mining on poor communities, and shows how upcoming US legislation can help people claim their rights.
- Reconstructing Haiti
- A summary of recommendations for moving forward following the January 12, 2010 earthquake.
- Oxfam relief efforts continue in Haiti
- Failing the Cardozo test
- Why US foreign assistance legislation needs a fresh start
- “Our entire world has changed”
- Yolette Etienne, Oxfam’s country director in Haiti, lost her mother in the earthquake a week ago. She buried her the next day and went to work. Caroline Gluck ...
- Haiti at risk
- A country already struggling to overcome poverty reels.
- Changing the way Americans prepare for the worst
- What if we could pinpoint who’d be hardest hit by disasters? Thanks to social vulnerability mapping, we can.
- Protect and serve or train and equip?
- US security assistance and protection of civilians
- Verapaz: four days after the landslide
- With her camera, Oxfam America's Tjarda Muller records the devastation in one community in El Salvador following torrential rains.
- The water started to rise, and it did not stop
- Three major storms struck Haiti in the space of two weeks, leaving devastation in their wake. Oxfam is providing relief supplies and clean water to those in ...
- Emergency update: storms in Haiti
- Oxfam continues to address water and sanitation problems in areas hit by hurricanes.
- After the storms, travel is almost impossible in remote areas of Haiti
- Olbert Nicolas, Oxfam's disaster risk reduction project officer describes his expedition from the water-logged Nippes Department to Port-au-Prince.
- Multi-agency report reveals disparity in living conditions for Louisianans
- A Portrait of Louisiana
- Louisiana Human Development Report 2009
- CIFCA mission confirms human rights violations in Honduras
- An international human rights mission that traveled to Honduras confirmed violations of human rights after the coup d'état that ousted President Manuel Zelaya.
- New Senate bill pushes for development aid transparency, stronger USAID
- New deadlines not enough to finalize a 'development' trade round
- Empty promises
- What happened to 'development' in the WTO's Doha Round?
- African leaders call for a new path on US foreign assistance
- Crisis in Honduras: Oxfam expresses concerns
- Following the arrest and expulsion of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya on June 29, Oxfam is closely following events in the country.
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