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- What Happened at the G20?
- Initial analysis of the London summit
- Oxfam reaction to G8 communique
- Oxfam outlines four stepping stones to the G20's 'new world order'
- Oxfam welcomes Global Health Initiative announcement
- 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 ...
- Two promises kept on fight against poverty, one more left to go
- 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 ...
- Improving the wells improves community health in flood-prone parts of El Salvador
- Capped wells lined with a volcanic-rock filter provide families in Salvadoran communities with clean drinking water.
- Along the coast of El Salvador, families take steps to cope with climate change
- Oxfam and other aid groups is working with local activists to bring issues to the attention of the Salvadoran government.
- Hardest hit: Vietnam
- In response to drought, communities grow drought-resistant crops, raise alternative livestock breeds, and use water from a new reservoir.
- Hardest hit: Louisiana
- A house built on pilings – a lift house – can withstand hurricane-force winds and rains.
- Hardest hit: El Salvador
- “Healthy wells,” tightly sealed to keep out contamination after floods, provide clean drinking and cooking water for families.
- Not just more, better: improving aid to the developing world
- "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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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
- First phase of Haiti rehabilitation to focus on water, sanitation, and shelter
- Early assessments help Oxfam plan out the first six months of our post-earthquake assistance.
- In Prestea, Ghana, gold mine expansion threatens water sources
- Communities are requesting a comprehensive evaluation of the impact of a new mining project and for their right to free, prior, and informed consent regarding ...
- Clean water and sanitation prevent disease and save lives after disaster strikes
- During disasters, water and sanitation systems often collapse. Repairs can take time—time that people who depend on them to stay alive don’t have.
- 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 ...
- Video: The need for water is acute
- Without water, people cant last much beyond three days. Thats why Oxfam focuses much of its emergency response on rushing to provide survivors with a safe ...
- Why are humanitarian advocates leading on aid reform?
- AidNow series
- Former Afghan finance minister calls for greater foreign aid transparency
- US Senate’s commitment to aid reform critical to success for Shah and USAID
- Oxfam America on Dr. Rajiv Shah, Obama’s Nominee for USAID Administrator
- Transparency is happening right now: USAID and Indonesia's national budget
- AidNow series
- Oxfam calls for radical shake-up of aid system to break cycle of hunger in Ethiopia
- Millions of displaced Pakistanis missed out on aid because rich countries gave too little too late, says Oxfam
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- Loss of a leader in Ghana May 17, 2013
- Simple and Effective: System of Rice Intensification in Vietnam May 16, 2013
- Salvadoran activist to DC policymakers: “We are on a journey together.” May 16, 2013
- Why US Farmers Should Take “Pride” in Reforming Food Aid May 15, 2013 2
- With paper and pen, capturing a refugee’s reality May 15, 2013
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