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- A new leader of concerned farmers in rural Ghana
- Emilia Amoateng helps defend the rights of fellow villagers, presses a legal case for compensation for their lost farms.
- Guatemalan government continues to ignore ruling of human rights commission
- Public events put spotlight on non-compliance with precautionary measures recommendation.
- Guatemalan human rights and environmental advocates under threat
- Oxfam calls on government to ensure safety of CALAS officials and investigate origins of death threats.
- Marlin Mine: Violence and pollution lead to call for suspension
- Concerns about human rights violations and the environment in Guatemala lead indigenous communities to seek a suspension of mine operations in western ...
- OXFAMExchange, Fall 2011
- Africa's last famine?
- 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.
- 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.
- Community-based human rights impact assessments: Practical lessons
- Report from an international meeting, Canada 2010
- New tool helps communities focus on human rights
- A new system will help community members do their own analysis of the effects of foreign investment on human rights.
- International Labour Organization urges suspension of mining operations in Guatemala
- UN bodies push the government on rights violations in mining cases.
- New potential for conflict in Peru’s Amazon
- Madre de Dios could be next flashpoint in ongoing confrontation between indigenous communities and foreign oil, gas, and mining companies.
- The struggle continues in Ghana
- Members of a farmers’ group continue their long struggle to claim their rights in court, but one farmer loses everything in a surprise legal move.
- Obama's visit to Africa: Time for a new partnership founded on transparency and shared responsibility
- Oxfam calls on mining company to respect human rights
- 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 calls for an investigation of alleged torture of 28 in Peru
- A new report and photographs show participants in peaceful march in 2005 were detained and mistreated by mine company security and police.
- 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 ...
- West Africa asks, "Where is my gold?"
- Oxfam America and leading civil society organizations in West Africa are launching a week of action aimed at raising public awareness about the mining industry ...
- Bolivian indigenous groups attacked
- Oxfam expresses solidarity with Chiquitano indigenous people in eastern Bolivia after their offices are ransacked and leaders are threatened.
- Defending the people, and Lake Izabal
- Despite threats to her life, Eloyda Mejía raises awareness about industrial mining near a beautiful lake in eastern Guatemala.
- Environmental activists receive death threats
- In Guatemala, a deep-rooted culture of violence limits debate about mining and the environment.
- "We are united"
- An indigenous Q'eq'chi community in Guatemala struggles to defend its agricultural land.
- Rodolfo Pocop: an indigenous perspective on mining in Guatemala
- New economic realities in Central America reveal strong concerns about the future of Mayan culture.
- Referendum on Rio Blanco mining project
- "Do you agree with having mining activity in the district of Carmen de la Frontera?" This is the question that thousands of citizens will answer on Sunday ...
- Oxfam America denounces death threats against rights advocate in Peru
- Calls on the authorities to investigate death threats and intimidation.
- Human rights violations follow the money
- Groundbreaking hearings on the responsibility of the World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank to respect human rights exposes violations related to loans ...
- Conflict surrounds expansion of Peru gold mine
- Local communities turn to legal measures to protect land, water.
- Oxfam America partner Dr. Juan Almendares receives humanitarian award
- "My greatest inspiration was my mother...When I graduated from the university, I had three callings: To work on behalf of the poor, to educate, and to dedicate ...
- For resettled community, not all are satisfied with new home
- New clinic doesn't quite make up for lost lands, higher expenses for displaced farmers.
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