- 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.
- States vote overwhelmingly for first ever Arms Trade Treaty
- Syria, Iran and North Korea stall agreement of Arms Trade Treaty
- Irrelevant Senate Amendment mischaracterizes Arms Trade Treaty
- Oil transparency rule strongly defended by SEC in court
- Oscar-nominated actor joins growing chorus in support of the Arms Trade Treaty
- Oxfam separates fact from NRA's fiction on the Arms Trade Treaty
- Global oil company distances itself from oil transparency fight
- Community and business leaders applaud "Path Forward" plan for restoring Gulf Coast
- Members of Congress & Oxfam defend oil and mining transparency law of Dodd-Frank Act
- Lawsuit seeking to overturn oil transparency law moves forward
- US Gulf Coast Recovery Program Fact Sheet
- An overview of Oxfam America's continuing effort to rebuild the Gulf Coast
- A state of fear: Human rights abuses in North Carolina’s tobacco industry
- Inventory of Farmworker Issues and Protections in the United States
- Impact of climate change on response providers and socially vulnerable communities in the US
- Federal disaster programs, plans, and policies seldom address climate change or social vulnerability. Homeland security policy could be revised to accommodate climate change impacts on socially vulnerable populations.
- Community-based human rights impact assessments: Practical lessons
- Report from an international meeting, Canada 2010
- Resilience and determination
- Gulf Coast organizations defending worker and immigrant rights in the aftermath of Katrina
- 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
- Oxfam Impact April 2007
- MIRA makes a difference
- 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
- Oxfam Impact September/October 2006
- Rebuilding the Gulf Coast: A Year Later
- 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
- Rebuilding our economy, restoring our environment
- How the emerging restoration economy offers new and expanded opportunities for Gulf Coast businesses and communities
- Gulf 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
- US Gulf Coast Recovery Program Fact Sheet
- An overview of Oxfam America's continuing effort to rebuild the Gulf Coast
- Oxfam Action Corps volunteers fight hunger
- Join Oxfam volunteers around the US as we take action to end global hunger and poverty.
- The New Pornographers for Oxfam's Gulf Coast Program
- The New Pornographers and Oxfam collaborate to bring you their new video for the song "Sweet Talk, Sweet Talk," featuring local residents still reeling from the BP oil spill.
- BP oil spill: Voices from the Gulf Coast
- Loyde Duncan talks about his life as a fisherman off the coast of Louisiana and the uncertainty that lies ahead.
- 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.
- Hardest hit: Survival strategies from the frontlines of climate change
- Learn how four communities around the world are fighting back against climate change, and how you can help.
- Hardest hit: Louisiana
- A house built on pilings – a lift house – can withstand hurricane-force winds and rains.
- 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.
- 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 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
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Speaking up for North Carolina's tobacco pickers
Many still face unhealthy and difficult working conditions; Oxfam and partners helped them make their case to companies in 2012.
Food price spikes
After decades of progress, the number of people without enough to eat has reversed course and is increasing. It could soon top one billion. That's more than one in seven people going to bed hungry. Today. In the 21st century.
Historic breakthrough in Florida’s tomato fields
Longtime Oxfam partner brings about wide-ranging transformation in farm labor conditions
Star-studded Oxfam benefit party at Esquire House LA
Joy Bryant, Kristin Davis, Minnie Driver, and Mark Ruffalo host "The Oxfam Party" at luxury home in Hollywood Hills.
Fishermen prepare for the worst with BP oil spill
Gulf Coast communities deal with the spill's impact on livelihoods and worry about the recovery process.
Oxfam, partner delivers new report to Secretary of Labor
Secretary Solis responds to findings of "Weeding out abuses: Recommendations for a law-abiding farm labor system."
Rallying for rights
Farmworkers in North Carolina take their case to RJ Reynolds.
Biloxi braces for an uncertain future
In a city already battling poverty and a legacy of severe hurricanes, the BP oil spill could bring a different kind of disaster.
Oil spill presents array of threats to Gulf Coast
Oxfam supports community efforts to respond to the spill.
New tool helps communities focus on human rights
A new system will help community members do their own analysis of the effects of foreign investment on human rights.
Majora Carter: ‘Women represent a new vision’
The environmental justice advocate talks with Oxfam about poverty here and abroad, the need for climate change adaptation, and why women can lead the way in coming up with solutions.
Changing the way Americans prepare for the worst
What if we could pinpoint who’d be hardest hit by disasters? Thanks to social vulnerability mapping, we can.
Women of influence get results on Capitol Hill
Oxfam's Sisters on the Planet Ambassadors generate Congressional support for women who face the devastating effects of climate change.
From the US and Senegal, stories of climate survival
An Oxfam America speaking tour brings together two women who are leading the fight against climate change.
Emerging artist paints with a purpose
For Ashley Cecil, each work of art means a chance to make a difference.
A force of nature
Three years after losing everything in Hurricane Katrina, one grassroots leader is harnessing the power of community.
Some people dread evacuations almost as much as hurricanes
Leaving home in advance of a storm is costly and exhausting. Facing the prospect of having to do it more than once in short order makes some residents think twice.
Taking on the 'green monster'
In the tobacco fields of North Carolina, workers put in long days under grueling conditions. Baldemar Velasquez finds out just how hard the job is.
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