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Speaking up for North Carolina's tobacco pickers
Many still face unhealthy and difficult working conditions; Oxfam and partners helped them make their case to companies in 2012.
Interactive map reveals “pressure points” of food price spikes on poor communities around the world
Saving Lives
Disasters, and the way we respond to them, can be catalysts for social change—a chance to create lasting solutions to poverty and injustice.
In harm's way: Oxfam America's game on rethinking natural disasters
The new adaptation marketplace
Climate change and opportunities for green economic growth
Community-based human rights impact assessments: Practical lessons
Report from an international meeting, Canada 2010
Oil spill presents array of threats to Gulf Coast
Oxfam supports community efforts to respond to the spill.
Rallying for rights
Farmworkers in North Carolina take their case to RJ Reynolds.
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.
New deadlines not enough to finalize a 'development' trade round
New report reveals shared experiences of African Americans and Latinos
OXFAMExchange Winter 2009
These are extraordinary times
After the storm: Oxfam takes stock, rushes in aid
Gustav hit trailers and vulnerable homes the hardest.
Some people dread evacuations almost as much as hurricanes
Leaving home in advance of a storm is costly and exhausting. Facing the prospect of having to do it more than once in short order makes some residents think ...
OXFAMExchange Winter 2006
The Year of Disasters
Building Common Ground
How shared attitudes and concerns can create alliances between African-Americans and Latinos in a post-Katrina New Orleans
OXFAMExchange Fall 2008
A root revolution in Cambodia
Yum! Brands agree to hike pay for Florida tomato pickers
Florida tomato pickers, among some of the poorest paid workers in the United States, have won another victory in their fight to earn a decent living wage.
US farmworkers reach historic agreement with McDonald's
Some tomato pickers in southwestern Florida could see their wages nearly double now that McDonald's has agreed to pay them a penny a pound more for the produce ...
Oxfam, CIW celebrate Burger King's promise of a wage hike
A penny a pound more for the tomatoes they pick could mean a near doubling of wages for Florida field laborers.
New report documents the fading of the American dream
New index is a single measure of well-being for all Americans based on indicators in three key areas: health, education and income.
Gulf Coast housing plan is good news, but...
A plan to expand workforce housing in Mississippi is welcomed, but advocates say the unmet housing needs in the state go way beyond what the plan will cover.
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.
Farmers in the US speak out
Farmers in the US and Central America had similar concerns about DR-CAFTA.
Designed to last, new "Lift House" holds promise for Louisiana
A new concept takes shape and offers hope for residents of the Gulf that future hurricanes might inflict less, if any, property damage.
A popular campaign
US-based activists played a significant role in forcing Congress to examine the merits of DR-CAFTA.
OXFAMExchange Fall 2007
Moving Toward Lasting Solutions in Gambia
Cultivating Poverty
The impact of US cotton subsidies on Africa
Forgotten Communities, Unmet Promises
An unfolding tragedy on the Gulf Coast
Fairness in the Fields
A vision for the 2007 Farm Bill
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