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- Small loans make a big difference for women in Afghanistan
- Oxfam America's sister organizations are working hard to help women in drought-prone areas of Afghanistan find ways to improve their lives.
- 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 ...
- Reducing vulnerability to HIV before and after disasters
- Tsunami research brief: An exploration of how the tsunami and its aftermath led to an increase in vulnerability to HIV in coastal India.
- 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.
- 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.
- Stop Violence Against Women
- Oxfam America’s Gender Violence Prevention campaign supports local upcoming artists while contributing to cultural change and new youth practices. Salvadoran ...
- Giada de Laurentiis marks World Food Day with trip to Peru
- Modern urban Latin music to prevent gender violence
- Oxfam America’s Gender Violence Prevention campaign supports local upcoming artists while contributing to cultural change and new youth practices.
- Climate change affecting Peru right now
- Farmers report changing weather and negative effects on livelihoods.
- Oxfam Impact July 2009
- A quarter million now Saving for Change
- Women in Mali lead Saving for Change
- An innovative savings and loan program is helping people work their own way out of extreme poverty. Women in Mali are leading the way as the program expands to ...
- Rape, attack, torture surge in eastern Congo, says new Oxfam survey
- Oxfam calls for an end to violence in the Peruvian Amazon
- Aid agency urges US government to help resolve the crisis
- Oxfam: More than 3 million face death while Berlusconi and the G8 fiddle
- Oxfam calls on mining company to respect human rights
- Mugged: Poverty in Your Coffee Cup
- In this report, Oxfam calls for the major players in the coffee industry to support a Coffee Rescue Plan to overcome the current crisis and create a more ...
- Resource revenues elusive in Peru
- Money from mines and pipelines is hard to track, and not obviously helping the poorest people in the country.
- The Coir Industry in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka
- A tsunami research journal article
- 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 ...
- Rape: one global step toward stopping it
- A new bill proposes a five-year strategy to address violence against women in countries around the world, particularly during times of conflict and ...
- Eyewitness in Congo: Godefroid Marhegane
- A first-hand account from staff member Godefroid Marhegane, who lives in Goma with his wife and six children.
- Taking steps toward gender equity
- In Tamil Nadu, India, Oxfam study finds approaches that work.
- Oxfam calls for an investigation of alleged torture of 28 in Peru
- A new report and photographs show participants in peaceful march in 2005 were detained and mistreated by mine company security and police.
- Take Action: Democratic Republic of Congo
- According to Jan Egeland, the UN humanitarian chief in DRC from 2003-06, casualties in Congo amount to "a tsunami every month, year in and year out, for the ...
- 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 ...
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