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- Darfur five years on: five steps forward
- Five years since the crisis in Darfur, Sudan, first erupted, 4.5 million people are caught in its grip and are in need of aid. As the violence continues, that ...
- Darfur video Q & A
- We asked Oxfam supporters to tell us what they wanted to know about the crisis in Darfur—and received an overwhelming response.
- Geneva Convention turns 60
- New respect needed for international law designed to protect civilians.
- The Right to Survive
- The humanitarian challenge for the twenty-first century
- Exposed: Social vulnerability and climate change in the US Southeast
- The new adaptation marketplace
- Climate change and opportunities for green economic growth
- People-centered resilience
- Working with vulnerable farmers towards climate change adaptation and food security
- BP oil spill: Voices from the Gulf Coast
- Loyde Duncan talks about his life as a fisherman off the coast of Louisiana and the uncertainty that lies ahead.
- Oxfam, local advocates protest plan to cut housing money
- Using money earmarked for housing restoration is not the way to pay for a port expansion—not when hurricane victims still have no real homes to move into.
- Hardest hit: Survival strategies from the frontlines of climate change
- Learn how four communities around the world are fighting back against climate change, and how you can help.
- The ones who feed the world
- During a US speaking tour organized by Oxfam, four international farmers find common ground with their Iowa counterparts.
- The statistics of gender violence in El Salvador
- More that 15 percent of all Salvadorans don't consider acts of sexual violence a crime, according to a public opinion poll about gender-based violence.
- Ghosts of Christmas past
- Protecting Congolese civilians from the LRA
- Impact of climate change on response providers and socially vulnerable communities in the US
- Federal disaster programs, plans, and policies seldom address climate change or social vulnerability. Homeland security policy could be revised to accommodate ...
- Community-based human rights impact assessments: Practical lessons
- Report from an international meeting, Canada 2010
- One step forward in campaign to end violence against women
- El Salvador’s legislative assembly passes new law regarding violence against women.
- A house for Miss Betty
- An innovative housing program in the US Gulf Coast led by Oxfam America partner TRAC is taking housing in flood-prone areas to new heights.
- Climate change wake-up call
- You know about global warming. You may already be doing your part to protect the environment. But, climate change is a human issue too—it's hitting the ...
- 100 people pushed into poverty every minute by economic crisis
- G20 must put fight against poverty at the center of global economic reforms
- Global leaders must not squander historic opportunity for reform.
- Gulf Coast government guide
- A Directory of the National, State, and Local Officials Representing Coastal Mississippi
- Fishermen prepare for the worst with BP oil spill
- Gulf Coast communities deal with the spill's impact on livelihoods and worry about the recovery process.
- Oil spill presents array of threats to Gulf Coast
- Oxfam supports community efforts to respond to the spill.
- Resilience and determination
- Gulf Coast organizations defending worker and immigrant rights in the aftermath of Katrina
- Rallying for rights
- Farmworkers in North Carolina take their case to RJ Reynolds.
- Hardest hit: Louisiana
- A house built on pilings – a lift house – can withstand hurricane-force winds and rains.
- Oxfam America to promote the rights of communities impacted by oil, gas, and mining development
- Aid group calls for mandatory disclosure legislation
- Business poised to push governments on climate deal
- 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.
- Biloxi braces for an uncertain future
- In a city already battling poverty and a legacy of severe hurricanes, the BP oil spill could bring a different kind of disaster.
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