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- New campaign calls on oil industry and Securities and Exchange Commission to support transparency law
- Case Study: Bolivian Government Consultation with the Guaraní Indigenous Peoples of Charagua Norte and Isoso
- Proposed hydrocarbons exploration project in San Isidro Block Santa Cruz, Bolivia
- The Right of Indigenous Peoples to Prior Consultation: The Situation in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru
- This study illustrates the barriers to exercising the right to prior consultation and consent in each of these four countries, and is intended to encourage ...
- Guatemala: Heart of our Mother Earth
- Indigenous Maya people in western Guatemala are calling on the government to suspend operations at the Marlin Mine, and investigate violent human rights ...
- Looking them in the eye
- In Ghana, a young woman learns to lead in a village flooded by water draining from an underground mine shaft.
- Knowledge is power
- Across Ghana, new leaders are emerging to voice concerns about the environment and basic justice.
- 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.
- Oxfam praises new bill to restore Gulf Coast communities, ecosystems and create jobs post-oil spill
- Protect Community Rights and Resources Fact Sheet
- Over 60 percent of the world's poorest people live in countries rich in natural resources—but they rarely share in the wealth. Too often, poor communities have ...
- OXFAMExchange Spring 2009
- The power of resilience
- Follow the Money
- Standing at the pump, watching the numbers tick away, do you ever wonder where the money goes? People on the other end of the pipeline are wondering too.
- Copper in the Clouds
- In Peru, local governments, community leaders, and farmers say the proposed Rio Blanco Copper Mine would be devastating to local communities. Where drinking ...
- Standing up for justice
- In 2005, thousands of unarmed Peruvians peacefully protested against the Rio Blanco Copper Mine. Cleofé Neyra describes how she and 27 others were tortured and ...
- Water is life
- High in the cloud forest of Piura, local communities understand the importance of the area's water and medicinal plants. They warn the proposed Rio Blanco ...
- A new generation
- Meet Eneyda, a young Machiguenga woman navigating the confusing waters connecting her remote indigenous community, and the environmental threats and economic ...
- Sabodala: Poverty in a land of gold
- In Senegal, a gold mine has displaced farmers from their fields, leaving hundreds without jobs or a decent way to make a living. Oxfam America's partner is ...
- Oxfam and partners hail Ghana for enacting law on petroleum revenue
- As Ghana joins the league of oil producing nations, Oxfam America and its local partners congratulate the country for putting in place the legal framework for ...
- Oxfam's oil, gas, and mining program
- Oxfam advocates just government policies and corporate practices in the oil, gas, and mining industries, and supports the right of communities to participate ...
- Ghana adopts West African mining principles
- After almost two years of its enactment by West Africa’s regional body, Ghana joins Senegal in adopting the principles on mining in the region.
- Community-based human rights impact assessments: Practical lessons
- Report from an international meeting, Canada 2010
- Relief agency hails Obama's historic endorsement of indigenous people's rights
- Big challenges remain for managing Ghana's oil future
- ECOWAS sets up committee on mining reforms
- Latest step in effort to improve, standardize requirements for oil, gas, and mining in West Africa.
- Some justice for a palm tree
- Inadvertent destruction of an oil palm tree leads to highest compensation ever.
- Oxfam calls for community rights improvements as IFC reviews standards
- Cambodia sees Oxfam as a partner in petroleum lawmaking process
- Public forum on extractive industries attracts attention of national government.
- Pacific Rim case against the Salvadoran government begins
- Civil society group criticizes handling of dispute between mining company Pacific Rim and the Salvadoran government, says environmental issues and the rights ...
- Chevron shareholders cast their votes for transparency
- Shareholders call for transparency and accountability at Chevron annual meeting
- Oxfam America to promote the rights of communities impacted by oil, gas, and mining development
- Aid group calls for mandatory disclosure legislation
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