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- Host an Oxfam America Hunger Banquet® event
- Raise awareness and help fund Oxfam's work by hosting a Hunger Banquet® in your community! Few experiences bring to life the inequalities in our world more powerfully than an Oxfam America Hunger Banquet® event. Organizers and participants alike can experience firsthand how our decisions affect others in the world.
- New Senate bill would open the books in the oil, gas, and mining sector
- 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 calls for an end to violence in the Peruvian Amazon
- Aid agency urges US government to help resolve the crisis
- Oxfam urges miner to address community engagement practices
- West African countries endorse regional mining sector policy
- Oxfam urges miner to improve community relations
- New shareholder report identifies opportunities for stronger community engagement practices.
- Peru mining conflicts grow critical
- Central American mining could undermine economic well-being
- Oxfam urges informed public debate over costs and benefits
- Oil, mining industry anti-corruption efforts moving too slowly; mandatory regulations needed
- Oil 'hot spot' Ghana must proceed with caution
- G20 must put fight against poverty at the center of global economic reforms
- Global leaders must not squander historic opportunity for reform.
- Bold leadership is needed to turn the tide of poverty
- Oxfam's oil, gas, and mining program
- Oxfam advocates just government policies and corporate practices in the oil, gas, and mining industries, and supports the right of communities to participate meaningfully in decisions about the use of natural resources.
- OXFAMExchange Spring 2009
- The power of resilience
- OXFAMExchange Spring 2008
- Raising a generation without fear
- OXFAMExchange Winter 2008
- Hard Questions about Ghana's Gold Boom
- Working together to end poverty and injustice
- An overview of Oxfam America and our approach to poverty relief and lasting social change.
- Oxfam in West Africa
- Across the vast Sahel and down through the lush rainforests of Ghana, there is a growing sense of possibility.
- 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 the political dialogue, calling on their governments: Hear us now.
- OXFAMExchange Spring 2006
- Challenging Injustice
- 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 have a simple, yet important message: "We are here."
- OXFAMExchange Fall 2002
- What's in your coffee? Oxfam's coffee campaign. Plus Afghanistan, Make Trade Fair campaign, and the Hopi people's struggle for clean, safe drinking water.
- Mining conflicts in Peru: Condition critical
- Metals, mining, and sustainable development in Central America
- An assessment of benefits and costs
- Ghana's Big Test
- Oil's challenge to democratic development
- Corporate Social Responsibility in the Mining Sector in Peru
- Golden Rules
- Around the world, large-scale metals mining takes an enormous toll on the health of the environment and communities. Gold mining, in particular, is one of the dirtiest industries in the world.
- Hidden Treasure?
- In search of Mali's gold-mining revenues
- Transparency Begins at Home
- An assessment of United States revenue transparency and extractive industries transparency initiative requirements
- Dirty Metals
- Mining, Communities, and the Environment
- Tarnished Legacy
- A Social and Environmental Analysis of Mali's Syama Goldmine
- Investing in Destruction: Glamis Gold
- Poverty Reduction or Poverty Exacerbation?
- World Bank Group Support for Extractive Industries in Africa
- Digging to Development?
- A Historical Look at Mining and Economic Development
- Extractive Sectors and the Poor
- A Proposed Mine in Tambogrande, Peru: An Alternative Look
- Oxfam America Organizing Guide
- Tips for taking action in your community
- Oxfam America House Party Guide
- Tools for hosting a high-impact event
- Take Action: Protect Community Rights and Resources
- Over 60 percent of the world's poorest people live in countries rich in natural resources—but they rarely share in the wealth. Too often, poor communities have no say in the extraction of resources from their land and receive little information about these projects.
- CRUDE Film Screening - Hartford
- CRUDE, an independent film by Joe Berlinger, documents a landmark case in the Amazon jungles in Ecuador where indigenous communities are seeking redress from US oil giant Chevron for the alleged contamination of one of the world’s most biodiverse regions.
- CRUDE Film Screening - Baltimore
- CRUDE, an independent film by Joe Berlinger, documents a landmark case in the Amazon jungles in Ecuador where indigenous communities are seeking redress from US oil giant Chevron for the alleged contamination of one of the world’s most biodiverse regions.
- CRUDE Film Screening - St. Louis
- CRUDE, an independent film by Joe Berlinger, documents a landmark case in the Amazon jungles in Ecuador where indigenous communities are seeking redress from US oil giant Chevron for the alleged contamination of one of the world’s most biodiverse regions.
- CRUDE Film Screening - Cleveland
- CRUDE, an independent film by Joe Berlinger, documents a landmark case in the Amazon jungles in Ecuador where indigenous communities are seeking redress from US oil giant Chevron for the alleged contamination of one of the world’s most biodiverse regions.
- Open the Books on Corruption
- From Oxfam America partner Publish What You Pay, calling for transparency in the oil, gas and mining industries and asking Congress to introduce the Extractive Industries Transparency Disclosure Act.
- Is mining right for Central America?
- Farmers and indigenous people debate the costs and benefits of mining.
- Our Land, Our Life
- The struggle of Carrie and Mary Dann, two Western Shoshone elders, to address the threat mining development poses to the sacred and environmentally sensitive lands of Crescent Valley, Nevada.
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Peru overturns decrees, starts dialogue
The government of Peru and indigenous citizens to move from conflict to dialogue on land rights and the best way to consult native people as they work to protect their territory and way of life.
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 in the region.
Chile: Struggling for the right to decide
Farmers use the law to defend their water and their rights—but can't block a massive tailings dam.
President Saca speaks out against mining in El Salvador
El Salvador's President Elias Antonio Saca announced that his government would not give out any mining permits in El Salvador.
Ghana's president promises disclosure of oil contracts
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