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- Business poised to push governments on climate deal
- Business leadership vs. business as usual?
- 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 ...
- OXFAMExchange Fall 2009
- Facing Down Hunger: The global food crisis one year later
- New Senate climate bill welcomed, greater investments in the resilience of the hardest hit needed now
- 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.
- White House report highlights the critical need for innovative solutions to climate impacts
- Majora Carter: ‘Women represent a new vision’
- The environmental justice advocate talks with Oxfam about poverty here and abroad, the need for climate change adaptation, and why women can lead the way in ...
- Lifeblood at risk
- In northern Peru, small-scale farmers can earn more by growing organic products. They say the rush to mine for copper in the mountains above their farms would ...
- British High Court freezes mine company assets
- Monterrico Metals will be required to compensate injured people and their communities if courts in the UK find the company responsible for human rights ...
- 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.
- Campaigners in Cambodia Demand Climate Justice
- While the UN climate conference in Copenhagen has largely centered on emissions reductions, poor countries like Cambodia are focusing on financing that could ...
- Historic moment, historic gathering, historic breakthrough?
- Oxfam reaction to Clinton Copenhagen announcement
- “Climate change undermining human rights on an unprecedented scale”
- Oxfam reaction to Obama announcement on Copenhagen travel
- $200BN - The price of success in Copenhagen
- Grameen Foundation and Oxfam America release new report on climate change and microfinance
- 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.
- Martina's story
- Martina Longom campaigned for and helped to build a borehole to make collecting water easier in Caicaoan village, Uganda.
- Sharon's story
- Sharon Hanshaw helps women speak out and prepare for future storms in post-Hurricane Katrina Biloxi, MS
- Muriel's story
- Muriel Saragoussi uses her voice to ensure that women's needs are taken into account in all environmental policies in Brazil.
- Sahena's story
- Sahena Begum is spearheading community efforts to cope with changing weather in Kunderpara village, Bangladesh.
- Obama announcement adds to Copenhagen momentum
- Senate action climate bill keeps United States in the game for Copenhagen
- The other green revolution
- African farmers have reclaimed farmland lost to drought in the Sahel, bringing hope for the future of this arid region and a model for fighting hunger ...
- EU-US must jump together on climate finance
- As politicians debate action on climate change, Cambodians rally in the capital city
- At the Wat Phnom event, they call on governments to meet the needs of poor countries already struggling to deal with the impacts of climate change.
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