- 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.
- Vulnerability and Climate Change in the US Southeast
- An interactive Web experience highlighting the intersection of climate hazards such as drought, hurricane winds, sea-level rise, and floods with socially vulnerable communities in thirteen southeastern states.
- Exposed: Groundbreaking report details climate change hotspots in US Southeast
- 100 people pushed into poverty every minute by economic crisis
- New Senate bill would open the books in the oil, gas, and mining sector
- Thousands turn out for climate change stunt in New York
- Multi-agency report reveals disparity in living conditions for Louisianans
- New Senate bill pushes for development aid transparency, stronger USAID
- African leaders call for a new path on US foreign assistance
- New deadlines not enough to finalize a 'development' trade round
- Climate impacts could reverse progress in the fight against global poverty
- Historic House climate bill passes, provides resources for hardest hit
- New report reveals shared experiences of African Americans and Latinos
- Oxfam: More than 3 million face death while Berlusconi and the G8 fiddle
- Oxfam boosts aid effort to thousands fleeing new fighting in Somalia
- Business poised to push governments on climate deal
- Historic house climate bill passes first test, more resources still needed for hardest hit
- Oxfam welcomes Berman's action to increase development and diplomatic capacity
- Oxfam welcomes climate bill, urges increased support for hardest hit
- Oxfam urges miner to address community engagement practices
- New bipartisan congressional bill promises renewed hope for US foreign assistance and global poverty reduction
- Bank bailout could end poverty for 50 years
- Oxfam urges miner to improve community relations
- New shareholder report identifies opportunities for stronger community engagement practices.
- Oxfam's Reaction to President's Budget Proposal
- ALSO: Launch of Oxfam America Advocacy Fund Web Site
- Backroom Deals Enable DR-CAFTA to Pass
- Bad Trade Agreement Could Devastate Agriculture, Deepen Poverty in Central America
- Help Family Farmers Here and Abroad: Support the Rural America Preservation Act
- Oxfam at a glance: CHANGE Initiative
- The CHANGE Initiative is a highly competitive national program that trains college students to become actively engaged with Oxfam America’s work. Its goals: to broaden perspectives, inspire action, and shape a new generation of global citizens.
- 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 Winter 2009
- These are extraordinary times
- OXFAMExchange Fall 2008
- A root revolution in Cambodia
- US Gulf Coast Recovery Program Fact Sheet
- An overview of Oxfam America's continuing effort to rebuild the Gulf Coast
- OXFAMExchange Fall 2007
- Moving Toward Lasting Solutions in Gambia
- 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.
- Working together to end poverty and injustice
- An overview of Oxfam America and our approach to poverty relief and lasting social change.
- OXFAMExchange Spring 2007
- A Fragile Balance
- OXFAMExchange Winter 2006
- The Year of Disasters
- People-centered resilience
- Working with vulnerable farmers towards climate change adaptation and food security
- Exposed
- Social vulnerability and climate change in the US Southeast
- A Portrait of Louisiana
- Louisiana Human Development Report 2009
- The new adaptation marketplace
- Climate change and opportunities for green economic growth
- Empty promises
- What happened to 'development' in the WTO's Doha Round?
- Building Common Ground
- How shared attitudes and concerns can create alliances between African-Americans and Latinos in a post-Katrina New Orleans
- The White Oak Recommendations on Effective Global Development in the US National Interest
- A Portrait of Mississippi
- Mississippi Human Development Report 2009
- Mirror on America
- How the state of Gulf Coast recovery reflects on us all—Oxfam's report on the status of Gulf Coast recovery three years later.
- "Foreign Assistance Reform in the Next Administration: Challenges and Solutions"
- Shut Out
- How US farm programs fail minority farmers
- Impacts of Reductions in US Cotton Subsidies on West African Cotton Producers
- How Does the USDA Farm Bill Proposal Measure Up?
- Oxfam America Testimony on US Trade Agenda
- Fairness in the Fields
- A vision for the 2007 Farm Bill
- Forgotten Communities, Unmet Promises
- An unfolding tragedy on the Gulf Coast
- Transparency Begins at Home
- An assessment of United States revenue transparency and extractive industries transparency initiative requirements
- Like Machines in the Fields
- Workers without rights in American agriculture
- Investing in Destruction: Glamis Gold
- Cultivating Poverty
- The impact of US cotton subsidies on Africa
- Gulft Coast government guide
- A Directory of the National, State, and Local Officials Representing Coastal Mississippi
- In harm's way: Oxfam America's game on rethinking natural disasters
- A perfect storm is driving millions into poverty
- More than one billion people now face chronic hunger—and more could join their ranks if we don't act now. With increasing food prices, droughts and floods, and economic pressures, 40 years of progress against extreme poverty is at risk. Oxfam is ready with innovative programs that can save lives.
- Climate change wake-up call
- You know about global warming. You may already be doing your part to protect the environment. But, climate change is a human issue too—it's hitting the poorest people hardest.
- ACT FAST with Oxfam
- We can beat hunger and poverty -- but we've got to ACT FAST. Pledge to ACT FAST with Oxfam today and help us add 5,000 new people to the movement by November 30.
- Hardest hit: Louisiana
- Survival strategies from the frontlines of climate change
- TCK TCK TCK - It's Time to Act on Climate Change
- With only 100 days to go until world leaders meet in Copenhagen to hammer out a global climate change treaty, Oxfam has launched a new video with Oxfam Ambassador and Hollywood actor Gael Garcia Bernal.
- Oxfam America President Ray Offenheiser on Bloggingheads.tv
- Mark Leon Goldberg of UN Dispatch and The American Prospect, chats with Ray Offenheiser, president of Oxfam America, about how we can bring US foreign assistance and foreign aid practices into the 21st century.
- Sharon's story
- Sharon Hanshaw helps women speak out and prepare for future storms in post-Hurricane Katrina Biloxi, MS
- Reform US Foreign Aid Policy
- US foreign aid has saved millions of lives and helped millions more overcome poverty. Yet foreign aid is still under-performing and often fails to reach the people who need it most.
- Sustainable Security
- Oxfam America president Raymond C. Offenheiser discusses how 21st century sustainable security requires working together across borders for joint solutions to global challenges.
- 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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