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- Nine hectares of hope: an irrigation project promises better harvests for Ethiopian farmers
- With the help of an Oxfam partner, local farmers have tapped well water to nourish their fields in the Central Rift Valley.
- OXFAMExchange, Fall 2011
- Africa's last famine?
- Outwitting the fox: Women join forces to tackle poverty
- Oxfam’s Coco McCabe reports from Ethiopia on the efforts of a group of women in the Shashemene district to pool their resources and strengthen their community. ...
- Hardest hit: Ethiopia
- A women-led early warning system helps herding families in the southern part of the country find ways to cope with drought.
- Hardest hit: Survival strategies from the frontlines of climate change
- Learn how four communities around the world are fighting back against climate change, and how you can help.
- The statistics of gender violence in El Salvador
- More that 15 percent of all Salvadorans don't consider acts of sexual violence a crime, according to a public opinion poll about gender-based violence.
- Rape: one global step toward stopping it
- A new bill proposes a five-year strategy to address violence against women in countries around the world, particularly during times of conflict and ...
- 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 ...
- 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.
- 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 ...
- OXFAMExchange Spring 2004
- Engendering an Equitable Society: Focus on Women's Rights
- Oxfam funds fuel-efficient stoves that help women
- A $132,000 program helps thousands of displaced women stay safer in Darfur by providing 4,200 households with fuel-efficient stoves.
- Dream of rights for women
- The vision of equity drives new effort to defend rights and defeat HIV/AIDS.
- 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.
- Zimbabwe looks to new domestic violence law
- Women's Coalition writes a progressive law and pushes it through Parliament.
- Violence against women at root of HIV/AIDS crisis
- Oxfam partners mobilize public, research ways to improve respect for women and reduce the infection rate.
- 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.
- Profile: Gilma Molina de Vasquez
- How one woman redefined her relationship with her husband and family to become a community leader.
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