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- Take Action: Democratic Republic of Congo
- According to Jan Egeland, the UN humanitarian chief in DRC from 2003-06, casualties in Congo amount to "a tsunami every month, year in and year out, for the ...
- 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 ...
- Oxfam in the Horn of Africa
- Drought. Conflict. Low crop prices. These are among the realities that poor people across the Horn of Africa face on a daily basis. But with new tools for ...
- Group lives up to its name: Coastal Women for Change
- Gulf Coast women join together to talk about what was happening in their community, what issues and problems they faced, and how these could be addressed.
- From the US and Senegal, stories of climate survival
- An Oxfam America speaking tour brings together two women who are leading the fight against climate change.
- A force of nature
- Three years after losing everything in Hurricane Katrina, one grassroots leader is harnessing the power of community.
- Women of influence get results on Capitol Hill
- Oxfam's Sisters on the Planet Ambassadors generate Congressional support for women who face the devastating effects of climate change.
- OXFAMExchange Fall 2007
- Moving Toward Lasting Solutions in Gambia
- Oxfam boosts aid effort to thousands fleeing new fighting in Somalia
- A new phase of the struggle in South Africa
- Gerard Payne of the AIDS Consortium is helping community organizations become stronger and more effective in the fight against HIV and AIDS.
- In Congo, women face sexual violence and legacy of shame
- Spilling beyond the conflict that has swept the region, sexual violence is now beginning to corrode the core of traditional Congolese communities.
- In retirement, Fernando finds a golden opportunity helping coir workers
- Four years after the tsunami, the women are earning double and in some cases triple what they made before.
- Sexual violence in DR Congo
- Oxfam's striking short film, shot in eastern Congo in 2008, elevates the stories of women working to overcome brutality and asks viewers to take action by ...
- Mission incomplete
- Why civilians remain at risk in eastern Chad
- In Her Own Words
- Iraqi women talk about their greatest concerns and challenges.
- Free, Quality Education for Every Afghan Child
- With the establishment of democracy, the main symbol of Afghanistan's regeneration lay in the dream of educating every child–boy and girl. However, there ...
- Arms Without Borders
- Why a globalized trade needs global controls
- Between Hope and Fear in Northern Uganda
- Challenges on the ground and an urgent need for peace
- Small investments, big changes
- Oxfam America's Saving for Change program in Mali is helping more than 24,000 women save money, invest in small businesses, and become more active in their ...
- Fighting malaria is fighting poverty
- Organizing women in Saving for Change groups helps them to reduce the threat of malaria.
- Numbers don't lie
- Early success of innovative finance program impresses experts in Mali.
- Women are key to solving AIDS crisis in Southern Africa
- Discrimination is at the root of the disproportionate burden of the disease on women.
- "This is the future"
- After centuries of discrimination and a decade of legal work supported by Oxfam, the indigenous Chiquitano people of eastern Bolivia now have legal title to ...
- Joanna Manu: community activist in Ghana
- Joanna Manu learns how to defend her rights and stands firm in protecting the environment in her community.
- Conflict surges in Congo
- Atrocities are being committed against villagers in remote areas of Eastern Congo, where fighting between the Congolese army and the FDLR rebel group ...
- Grave concerns over conditions for civilians who escaped Sri Lanka's war zone
- Pakistan faces greatest internal displacement of people in its history; Oxfam doubles aid effort
- Thousands at risk as families flee Pakistan conflict
- Rethinking culture: changing practices and proverbs in Oromiya
- Oxfam offers help to Ethiopians scrambling for water
- Oxfam's programs are aimed at solutions to the region's severe water shortages.
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