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- Ethiopian women rediscover role as peace builders
- By raising awareness of the suffering produced by conflicts, women help find alternatives to violence.
- A Darfur mother faces bleak choices in camp for 15,000 people
- Collecting firewood and fodder are tasks full of risk for this Darfur mother. But without them, she won't be able to care for her family.
- Dream of rights for women
- The vision of equity drives new effort to defend rights and defeat HIV/AIDS.
- Crossing the cultural divide
- In the mountains of Peru, indigenous leaders are taking a multicultural approach to overcoming centuries of racism and discrimination—and fighting poverty.
- Boredom, worry fill the days for many in Darfur camps
- For many of the two million people displaced in Darfur, home is now a crowded camp far from the work and social interactions that once framed their lives.
- Balancing culture, new law in Mozambique
- Educating traditional leaders builds respect for women and their rights in the new Family Law.
- An Oxfam well driller hunts for water
- Under a scorching sun, Oxfam well drillers attempt to find new sources of water for people in Sudan.
- A new campaign led by women
- A call for more resources and better laws, along with education for women and all young people, will reduce violence.
- A lesson in rights
- A crowded urban school benefits from strong ideals of peace, citizenship, and human rights.
- A journey across Darfur imparts a critical lesson
- With gunshots rattling the air, the pleas of Darfur youths take on a whole new urgency.
- Zimbabwe looks to new domestic violence law
- Women's Coalition writes a progressive law and pushes it through Parliament.
- With Oxfam's help, women become entrepreneurs in Khartoum market
- Oxfam's partner helps women in Khartoum launch businesses that support their families.
- Who is Nick Anderson? He's Oxfam America's Youth Ambassador to Darfur
- In late July, 2008, Oxfam America sent Nick Anderson, a rising high school senior, to Darfur. His mission was to find a way for American teenagers to connect ...
- Volunteers in Darfur camps help improve health conditions for everyone
- Helping prevent the spread of waterborne diseases among 400,000 displaced people in camps scattered across Darfur and Chad is no small task. Volunteers are ...
- Una vida diferente: women create a different life
- A campaign in El Salvador to reduce violence against women is forcing people to take a hard look at their culture and painful history of violence.
- The second life of litter
- Little is wasted in poor Darfur: recycling is a way of life.
- Rebuilding lives in Darfur
- Responding to the emergency needs of the people.
- Profile: Gilma Molina de Vasquez
- How one woman redefined her relationship with her husband and family to become a community leader.
- Oxfam program head reflects on her years in Darfur
- Caroline Nursey has been involved with the humanitarian response in Darfur, Sudan, since the crisis there erupted—first as a regional director and most ...
- Oxfam Impact January 2009
- Altering the course of water—and women's lives.
- Oxfam Impact February 2007
- Small Investments, Big Changes
- Iraqi women in the grip of 'silent emergency' despite security gains, warns Oxfam
- A surge of state aid for women and their families, investment in basic services, urgently needed; 75 percent of widows interviewed not receiving pension.
- July was Darfur's worst-ever month for violence toward aid workers
- Oxfam Youth Ambassador Returns from Darfur with Call to Action for Young Americans
- Oxfam America Launches $50 Million Fundraising Campaign
- "Ocean's 13" Cast and Producer Donate $750,000 to Oxfam America through the "Not On Our Watch" Initiative
- Grammy award-nominated singer-songwriter Angelique Kidjo donates proceeds from her video download to Oxfam
- G8 Risk Going Into Reverse on Aid, Warns Oxfam on Eve of Summit
- Car-jacking prompts renewed call for protection of civilians in Chad
- Darfur: Aid Workers Evacuated as New Violence Threatens World?s Largest Humanitarian Response
- Half a Million People Increasingly Vulnerable After Evacuations of More Than 250 Staff Members in 10 Days
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