- Tell Congress: No more secret payments!
- A bill now in Congress would help protect poor people by making oil, gas, and mining companies open their books–but industry lobbyists are fighting it. Poor communities have a right to follow the money–and to call for a fair share for schools, health care, and jobs.
- 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
- OxfamExchange Winter 2010
- Ensuring Peace Of Mind?
- OXFAMExchange Fall 2009
- Facing Down Hunger: The global food crisis one year later
- 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.
- International Conference on Extractive Industries Contracts
- Conference Report
- 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
- Tarnished Gold
- Mining and the unmet promise of development
- 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.
- Water is life
- High in the cloud forest of Piura, local communities understand the importance of the area's water sources and medicinal plants. They warn the proposed Rio Blanco copper mine would be catastrophic to the fragile and pristine environment here.
- Lifeblood at risk
- In northern Peru, small-scale farmers can earn more by growing organic products. They say the rush to mine for copper in the mountains above their farms would contaminate the region and put their futures at risk.
- Standing up for justice
- In 2005, thousands of unarmed Peruvians peacefully protested against the Rio Blanco Copper Mine for illegally exploring for minerals on community land without their consent. One local resident, Cleofé Neyra, describes how she and 27 others were tortured and their struggle to defend their land and human rights.
- Copper in the Clouds
- In northern Peru, local governments, community leaders, and farmers say the proposed Rio Blanco Copper Mine would be devastating to local communities. In an area where drinking water is already scarce, pollution from the mine would be an environmental disaster for the entire region.
- Follow the Money
- Standing at the pump, watching the numbers tick away, do you ever wonder where the money goes? You're not alone: People on the other end of the pipeline are wondering too. While we feel the pinch in our pockets, citizens of oil-producing countries are often not seeing the profits.
- 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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