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- In northern Ethiopia, weather insurance offers a buffer against drought
- A growing number of families have signed up for weather insurance to protect their crop investments from insufficient rainfall.
- Haiti: a grain milling operation offers an economic lifeline for women
- To help tackle unemployment and ensure families have access to food, Oxfam is working with a women's group to modernize and expand a service center.
- For a Safer Tomorrow
- This report, based on Oxfam International's experience in most of the world's conflicts, sets out an ambitious agenda to protect civilians in times of warfare.
- Darfur five years on: five steps forward
- Five years since the crisis in Darfur, Sudan, first erupted, 4.5 million people are caught in its grip and are in need of aid. As the violence continues, that ...
- Darfur video Q & A
- We asked Oxfam supporters to tell us what they wanted to know about the crisis in Darfur—and received an overwhelming response.
- What’s in a stove?
- In Darfur, fuel-efficient stoves benefit the environment and much more.
- The Right to Survive
- The humanitarian challenge for the twenty-first century
- Ghosts of Christmas past
- Protecting Congolese civilians from the LRA
- Prone to fierce storms, Bangladesh works to improve its preparedness
- A native of Bangladesh, Latif Khan has lived through many cyclones—and has spent much of his professional life working on ways to help prevent the death and ...
- The Andean challenge: getting there and catching your breath
- At 16,000 feet above sea level, the air is thin in the mountain hamlets of Peru. Oxfam America and its partner, Asociación Proyección, are reaching out to ...
- Oil spill presents array of threats to Gulf Coast
- Oxfam supports community efforts to respond to the spill.
- Travelling down West Salvation Road
- Travel in Darfur requires patience and time. Often, riding on the back of a donkey is the most reliable way to get where you want to go.
- Troop surge in Afghanistan must not endanger civilians, warn aid agencies
- Caught in the Conflict
- Civilians and the international security strategy in Afghanistan
- Rankin in Congo: 'Their humanity was what I wanted people to notice'
- In 2009, celebrity photographer Rankin returned to Congo where he captured the love stories and portraits of people struggling through years of conflict in the ...
- Protect and serve or train and equip?
- US security assistance and protection of civilians
- President Karzai’s new government must deliver on schools, midwives and police say aid agencies
- A Seat at the Table
- Step into the world where food is often scarce and difficult decisions have to be made every day.
- Multi-agency report reveals disparity in living conditions for Louisianans
- Crisis in Honduras: Oxfam expresses concerns
- Following the arrest and expulsion of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya on June 29, Oxfam is closely following events in the country.
- Obama's visit to Africa: Time for a new partnership founded on transparency and shared responsibility
- New report reveals shared experiences of African Americans and Latinos
- Update on protection of civilians in eastern Congo's peace process
- His childhood lost to war, teenager starts new life in Congo
- A former child soldier, this young man now supports himself as a furniture-maker in a small shop in Goma.
- Microinsurance builds resilience after tsunami
- Fishing families in Andhra Pradesh, India are relying on microinsurance to keep them out of debt to money lenders and help them save a little of what they earn.
- The Coir Industry in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka
- A tsunami research journal article
- Improving livelihoods after disasters
- Tsunami research brief: Studies of paddy agriculture and the coconut fiber industry in Sri Lanka point to ways aid providers can help improve incomes.
- An open letter to the President
- Oxfam President Raymond C. Offenheiser appeals to President Obama to focus on key poverty-related issues.
- Escalation of the crisis in Congo: November 2008
- A fresh wave of conflict in eastern Congo has forced a new round of displacement and violence.
- Just a boy: meeting child soldiers in eastern Congo
- Humanitarian press officer Rebecca Wynn reports from eastern Congo, where a wave of violence has forced more than 250,000 people to flee their homes since ...
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