- Tell Congress: Don't cut aid. It's working.
- American poverty-fighting assistance saves lives and helps millions of people lift themselves out of poverty, all for less than 1% of the federal budget. Cutting aid won't close the budget gap -- but it will close the door on a better future for the world's most vulnerable communities. Speak up with us now: Tell Congress to oppose any cuts to lifesaving foreign aid.
- Support effective, efficient aid programs – they save lives.
- Right now, forty percent of the world’s population – more than 2.5 billion people – live in poverty, struggling to survive on less than $2 per day. The persistence of global poverty poses a challenge to the security, prosperity and values of the United States. Cuts to the world's most vulnerable communities have real impacts. Tell Congress we won't stand by while they make cuts that will cost lives.
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- Women and the big business of chocolate
- Chocolate is a $100 billion industry, but most cocoa farmers live on less than $2 a day. Among them, women in particular are more likely to face poverty, low wages, and discrimination.
- Effective Foreign Aid at Work: Majeda Begum Shiru
- A local leader is leveraging a tiny investment of US foreign aid to enable women to speak up to improve health and education services in Bangladesh.
- Una vida diferente | A different life
- Widespread cultural change is slow work: At the highest levels, laws must be in place to safeguard peoples’ rights. On the ground, women and men must re-examine how they think and act. In El Salvador, the next chapter in a battle against gender violence is a broad-based education initiative.
- Halving Hunger: Still Possible?
- Building a rescue package to set the Millennium Development Goals back on track
- Achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): The Road Forward for the U.S.
- This paper outlines key recommendations on each of the eight MDGs that we strongly believe the U.S. Government should include in its promised plan.
- Exchanging tea for respect
- A savings group in Senegal breeds entrepreneurs and independence on just a few cents a week.
- Now, the world is without me
- An investigation of sexual violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
- Small herds support families during hard times
- Programs that distribute goats and sheep help Ethiopian herders recover from drought.
- A Portrait of Louisiana
- Louisiana Human Development Report 2009
- Oxfam Impact July 2009
- A quarter million now Saving for Change
- Oxfam Impact January 2009
- Altering the course of water—and women's lives.
- Tsunami Fund end of program report
- Oxfam's final report on its four-year response to the tsunami disaster of December 2004.
- Gender justice in disaster response
- Tsunami research brief: An examination of good practices and challenges for aid providers in promoting gender equity in India during and after the tsunami.
- Adaptation 101
- How climate change hurts poor communities—and how we can help
- In Her Own Words
- Iraqi women talk about their greatest concerns and challenges.
- Understanding the Effect of the Tsunami and its Aftermath on Vulnerability to HIV in Coastal India
- A tsunami research journal article
- Gender Mainstreaming During Disasters
- A tsunami research journal article
- Free, Quality Education for Every Afghan Child
- With the establishment of democracy, the main symbol of Afghanistan's regeneration lay in the dream of educating every child–boy and girl. However, there remain many obstacles to achieving this dream.
- Afghanistan Education Report Card
- Women and the big business of chocolate
- Chocolate is a $100 billion industry, but most cocoa farmers live on less than $2 a day. Among them, women in particular are more likely to face poverty, low wages, and discrimination.
- GROW: Food. Justice. Planet.
- An overview of Oxfam's global GROW campaign
- Talks at Google with Kristin Davis & Raymond Offenheiser
- Raymond Offenheiser, Oxfam Ambassador Kristin Davis, Female Food Hero Susan Godwin and Chef Aarti Sequeira participate in a "Talks at Google" focused on ending hunger.
- Honoring women, fighting hunger
- This spring, thousands of supporters joined Oxfam in celebrating 100 years of International Women's Day. Check out photos from your events around the country.
- Education for girls: 'Our future depends on it'
- In Afghanistan, education for girls is crucial to the future development of the country.
- Sisters on the Planet 4:30-minute version
- Fight hunger. Invest in women. Watch Oxfam's video featuring the Sisters on the Planet ambassadors, then sign up as a Sister (or a Brother) at oxfamamerica.org/sisters.
- Sisters on the Planet 1-minute PSA
- Fight hunger. Invest in women. Watch Oxfam's video featuring the Sisters on the Planet ambassadors, then sign up as a Sister (or a Brother) at oxfamamerica.org/sisters.
- Sisters on the Planet 30-second PSA
- Fight hunger. Invest in women. Watch Oxfam's video featuring the Sisters on the Planet ambassadors, then sign up as a Sister (or a Brother) at oxfamamerica.org/sisters.
- A new tool for tackling poverty
- Using labor to pay for their premiums, poor farmers in Ethiopia earn a measure of security.
- A very good week
- During the MDG summit in September, we saw huge progress on the commitment to reduce hunger and poverty--and President Obama announced the first-ever US global development policy.
- Speak out because you can
- WINNER of Google and YouTube's 1forAll video contest! Oxfam America produced this 30-second spot celebrating our freedom of speech. Many women all around the world do not have this right, so by exercising our first amendment rights we are working together for change.
- 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 climate change.
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