http://www.oxfamamerica.org daily 1 2009-06-01T14:41:44Z http://www.oxfamamerica.org/publications/climate-change-and-security-fact-sheet It begins with changes in weather: higher temperatures; rising sea levels; more frequent droughts, floods, and storms. But climate change is more than environmental shifts. Because of its human consequences—including widespread hunger, water shortages, forced migrations, and disease—it threatens to undermine global stability and security.

]]> No publisher mborum climate change 2009-05-29T19:25:47Z Fact Sheet http://www.oxfamamerica.org/publications/climate-change-and-women-fact-sheet When natural disasters strike, they hit poor communities first and worst. And since women make up an estimated 70 percent of those living below the poverty line, they are most likely to bear the heaviest burdens. At the same time, women are often left out of the conversation about adapting to climate change, even though they are sometimes in the best position to provide solutions.

]]> No publisher mborum climate change 2009-05-29T19:23:21Z Fact Sheet http://www.oxfamamerica.org/publications/us-gulf-coast-recovery-program-fact-sheet An overview of Oxfam America's continuing effort to rebuild the Gulf Coast Even before Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated the Gulf Coast, Louisiana and Mississippi were the two poorest states in the nation. Nearly one in five residents lived below the national poverty line of about $20,000 in annual income for a family of four. Good schools, job opportunities, and decent housing were scarce. Now the region is in crisis. The 2005 storms, coupled with levee failures, severely damaged or destroyed more than 300,000 homes across the Gulf Coast. Seventy-one percent of the housing Katrina damaged or ruined was affordable to low-income households. Today communities are struggling to rebuild schools, health facilities, and businesses—all while residents remain displaced or still live in trailers.

]]> No publisher Oxfam America US Gulf Coast Recovery United States affordable housing humanitarian relief immigrant rights minority rights natural disaster politics and government workers' rights 2009-06-08T15:56:31Z Fact Sheet http://www.oxfamamerica.org/publications/darfur-crisis-fact-sheet An overview of the continuing humanitarian crisis in Sudan. No publisher Oxfam America Africa Darfur Horn of Africa Sudan humanitarian relief 2009-06-09T20:55:08Z Fact Sheet