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- Stand with the Sisters on the Planet
- On International Women's Day 2010, over 100 women leaders joined Oxfam with one message: we are Sisters on the Planet. And it's up to us to fight poverty and ...
- Take Action: Global Food Crisis
- Already 854 million people on our planet suffer from hunger. Now, as food prices climb high and fast, conditions are becoming worse and threatening the ...
- Fighting off starvation in Zimbabwe
- After a poor harvest and subsequent drought depleted food supplies, Oxfam partners distributed food and seeds to reduce the need for future aid.
- Instead of tea: Respect
- A savings group in Senegal breeds entrepreneurs and independence on just a few cents a week.
- New administration plan brings hope against hunger
- OXFAMExchange Fall 2009
- Facing Down Hunger: The global food crisis one year later
- Majora Carter: ‘Women represent a new vision’
- The environmental justice advocate talks with Oxfam about poverty here and abroad, the need for climate change adaptation, and why women can lead the way in ...
- Small loans make a big difference for women in Afghanistan
- Oxfam America's sister organizations are working hard to help women in drought-prone areas of Afghanistan find ways to improve their lives.
- Haiti no longer grows much of its own rice
- Once almost self-sufficient, Haiti now imports 80 percent of the rice it consumes. A dramatic cut in import tariffs led to a drop in national rice production.
- Reducing vulnerability to HIV before and after disasters
- Tsunami research brief: An exploration of how the tsunami and its aftermath led to an increase in vulnerability to HIV in coastal India.
- Martina's story
- Martina Longom campaigned for and helped to build a borehole to make collecting water easier in Caicaoan village, Uganda.
- Sharon's story
- Sharon Hanshaw helps women speak out and prepare for future storms in post-Hurricane Katrina Biloxi, MS
- Muriel's story
- Muriel Saragoussi uses her voice to ensure that women's needs are taken into account in all environmental policies in Brazil.
- Sahena's story
- Sahena Begum is spearheading community efforts to cope with changing weather in Kunderpara village, Bangladesh.
- Food crisis in Guatemala
- Oxfam and local partners help farmers cope with crop failures, food shortages.
- Oxfam calls for radical shake-up of aid system to break cycle of hunger in Ethiopia
- Secretary Clinton announces new government-wide initiative to reduce poverty and hunger in developing countries
- Stop Violence Against Women
- Oxfam America’s Gender Violence Prevention campaign supports local upcoming artists while contributing to cultural change and new youth practices. Salvadoran ...
- Giada de Laurentiis marks World Food Day with trip to Peru
- 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.
- Going hungry during lunch hour
- A Boston law firm celebrates the holiday season with an Oxfam America Hunger Banquet, where participants get first-hand experience of the vast differences ...
- A Seat at the Table
- Step into the world where food is often scarce and difficult decisions have to be made every day.
- Oxfam Impact July 2009
- A quarter million now Saving for Change
- Women in Mali lead Saving for Change
- An innovative savings and loan program is helping people work their own way out of extreme poverty. Women in Mali are leading the way as the program expands to ...
- New deadlines not enough to finalize a 'development' trade round
- Empty promises
- What happened to 'development' in the WTO's Doha Round?
- Rape, attack, torture surge in eastern Congo, says new Oxfam survey
- Obama's visit to Africa: Time for a new partnership founded on transparency and shared responsibility
- Faltering agricultural investments leaving two-thirds of rural poor behind
- Investing in Poor Farmers Pays
- Rethinking how to invest in agriculture
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