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- Fighting malaria is fighting poverty
- Organizing women in Saving for Change groups helps them to reduce the threat of malaria.
- Gradual change in the status of women
- Saving for Change doesn't just help women earn money—it is a means to change their role in the family and the village.
- Numbers don't lie
- Early success of innovative finance program impresses experts in Mali.
- Joanna Manu: community activist in Ghana
- Joanna Manu learns how to defend her rights and stands firm in protecting the environment in her community.
- Land and heritage at risk in Ghana
- A proposal to mine in a forest reserve raises concerns about the environment and the future of a nearby farming community.
- Pollution risk at new gold mine in Ghana exposed
- Journalist in Ghana writes about environmental risks, wins award.
- Oxfam America and ECOWAS to create new mining code
- Oxfam America and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) agreed on April 4, 2008 to collaborate on creating a common mining code for all of ...
- OXFAMExchange Winter 2007
- Creating Peace
- OXFAMExchange Winter 2008
- Hard Questions about Ghana's Gold Boom
- OXFAMExchange Winter 2003
- Mary Robinson on human rights, functional literacy in West Africa, and saving the family farm
- OXFAMExchange Spring 2003
- Red Tomato, ethnic discrimination and the Mayan defense, clearing landmines in Afghanistan, and community radio breathes life into democracy in Senegal
- OXFAMExchange Spring 2004
- Engendering an Equitable Society: Focus on Women's Rights
- More valuable than gold
- Andrea Perera explores how, for those living on gold deposits in Ghana, free, prior, and informed consent means the right to define the terms of development ...
- Lure of clean water: some displaced Chadians may not return
- In temporary settlements in eastern Chad, displaced people have found some comfort in the new things around them: clean water and access to a large market.
- Like the baobabs, cereal banks help Gambians weather hard times
- Oxfam America and its local partners are helping Gambians in the North Bank and Western divisions of the country plan for bouts of destructive weather and the ...
- West African countries endorse regional mining sector policy
- Holding politicians accountable
- Oxfam America and CONGAD call on candidates to refocus the political debate on the fight against poverty and economic governance.
- Ghana's president promises disclosure of oil contracts
- Mills takes step toward greater transparency, regulation.
- Gambian villagers find hope in easy-to-fix hand pumps
- Through a series of emergency programs, Oxfam America and its local partners are helping Gambians in the North Bank and Western divisions of the country plan ...
- For resettled community, not all are satisfied with new home
- New clinic doesn't quite make up for lost lands, higher expenses for displaced farmers.
- Demolished Ghanaian village wins court decision
- Mining company gets bill for houses, school destroyed in 1997.
- Dead fish and acid pollution point to cyanide in stream
- Farmers in Ghana affected by chemical spill call on government to investigate and punish polluters.
- Building a culture of peace in Senegal
- In a region reeling from over 20 years of war, students learn about peace, respect, human rights, and how to resolve conflicts peacefully.
- An act of courage
- Gaspard Onokoko is a man of peace, and a courageous defender of human rights.
- A new leader of concerned farmers in rural Ghana
- Emilia Amoateng helps defend the rights of fellow villagers, presses a legal case for compensation for their lost farms.
- A commitment to peace
- Oxfam's Eva Kouka leads the campaign in Senegal to eliminate the global trade in illegal arms.
- Students take the lead
- Trained student mediators take responsibility for resolving conflicts at high schools in Casamance.
- Ghana's Big Test
- Oil's challenge to democratic development
- Oil 'hot spot' Ghana must proceed with caution
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