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- Leadership from the bottom up
- Oxfam’s partner in Ghana, Wacam, is building a network of activists – many of them women – and helping them learn technical as well as leadership skills.
- Working with women
- Empowered women can change the world. At Oxfam America, that truth informs all our work, from our response to humanitarian emergencies to our campaigns for ...
- Saving for Change now exceeds 500,000 members
- Mali continues to lead rapid growth of innovative, savings-based microfinance program.
- Hardest hit: Ethiopia
- A women-led early warning system helps herding families in the southern part of the country find ways to cope with drought.
- Adaptation 101
- How climate change hurts poor communities—and how we can help
- 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.
- Saving for Change members celebrate International Women’s Day
- In El Salvador, opportunities to save and invest in small businesses come with training and reflection on food.
- Fighting destiny
- A heroine considers her role in re-aligning attitudes in Peru.
- 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.
- One step forward in campaign to end violence against women
- El Salvador’s legislative assembly passes new law regarding violence against women.
- Setting a good example
- Jesus Nazareno’s anti-discrimination ordinance is a model for others in the area.
- "La Ruta del Arte" an artistic way to prevent gender-based violence
- Music, dance, theatre, and painting help teach young people how to stop violence against women and girls in El Salvador.
- The injustice of racism
- How racism and discrimination contribute to poverty for indigenous people in Peru.
- Local approach to fighting racism
- Start with helping people confront their own attitudes, then change local laws to protect basic rights.
- Background
- Since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, some progress has been made in Afghanistan, such as in health and education. Yet overall progress has been slow and ...
- A source of income, funded by savings
- Women in Central America are leading efforts to reduce poverty, the overall purpose of the Millennium Development Goals, through participation in Oxfam ...
- Sewing for Change
- Women from small savings groups win their share of a national bid.
- Instead of tea: Respect
- A savings group in Senegal breeds entrepreneurs and independence on just a few cents a week.
- 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.
- Multi-agency report reveals disparity in living conditions for Louisianans
- A Portrait of Louisiana
- Louisiana Human Development Report 2009
- Domestic Violence Bill set to protect women in Mozambique
- New legislation is a major achievement for Women's Coalition.
- Gender Mainstreaming During Disasters
- A tsunami research journal article
- Gender justice in disaster response
- Tsunami research brief: An examination of good practices and challenges for aid providers in promoting gender equity in India during and after the tsunami.
- Oxfam in Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean
- All across this diverse and beautiful territory, new faces of leadership are emerging. Women, rural communities, and small farmers are adding their voices to ...
- Oxfam in Southern Africa
- Having fought hard for freedom from colonial and racial oppression, millions of rural poor across southern Africa, particularly women, still struggle 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 ...
- Taking steps toward gender equity
- In Tamil Nadu, India, Oxfam study finds approaches that work.
- OXFAMExchange Spring 2008
- Raising a generation without fear
- 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 ...
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