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- We can beat poverty and hunger—but we’ve got to ACT FAST. When you pledge to ACT FAST with Oxfam, you agree to do three things. Each step builds on the power of numbers: 1, 10, 100. And each person who takes the pledge brings us closer to our goal of beating poverty.
- 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.
- Join Oxfam's Humanitarian Action Team
- Join a core group dedicated to creating lasting change by influencing US legislation on humanitarian issues such as the crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the earthquake in China, and the global food crisis.
- DRC: Clinton should highlight rape and justice issues
- Rape, attack, torture surge in eastern Congo, says new Oxfam survey
- UN-backed military operation in eastern Congo likely to cause widespread suffering for thousands of civilians warns Oxfam
- Thousands of homes burned in new atrocities in Eastern Congo, villagers tell Oxfam
- Eastern DR Congo as bad as 2008, says Oxfam
- Agency scales up to provide water and sanitation to 150,000 newly displaced people
- OXFAMExchange Winter 2009
- These are extraordinary times
- OXFAMExchange Spring 2008
- Raising a generation without fear
- Oxfam at a glance: Saving lives
- In an emergency, Oxfam’s objective is to save lives.
- 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.
- Waking the Devil
- The impact of forced disarmament on civilians in the Kivus
- Out of Site
- Building better responses to displacement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by helping host families
- For a Safer Tomorrow
- This report, based on Oxfam International's experience in most of the world's conflicts, sets out an ambitious agenda to protect civilians in times of warfare.
- A Fragile Future
- Why scaling down MONUC too soon could spell disaster for the Congo
- Oxfam International Humanitarian Policy Notes
- These policy notes describe key issues for humanitarian organizations in the twenty-first century and provide recommendations derived from our experience working in the field as well as in the policy arena.
- In harm's way: Oxfam America's game on rethinking natural disasters
- 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: Democratic Republic of Congo
- According to Jan Egeland, the UN humanitarian chief in DRC from 2003-06, casualties in Congo amount to "a tsunami every month, year in and year out, for the last six years." Yet since Egeland made this statement in 2005 about the crisis in Congo, the situation remains grim, and the Congolese people are being subjected to unrivaled brutality.
- Conflict surges in Congo
- Atrocities are being committed against villagers in remote areas of Eastern Congo, where fighting between the Congolese army and the FDLR rebel group continues. At least 250,000 people have been forced to leave their homes since January.
- Sexual violence in DR Congo
- Oxfam's striking short film, shot in eastern Congo in 2008, elevates the stories of women working to overcome brutality and asks viewers to take action by joining a growing community of people who will not stand by any longer.
- Update on conflict in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
- Michael Gratton, from Oxfam Quebec, reports on the needs of displaced people around Goma.
- Update from DRC, Part 2
- Samual Ngabe, Oxfam's humanitarian coordinator in Goma, gives a first-hand account of what's happening in DRC. Part 2 of 3.
- Update from DRC, Part 1
- Samual Ngabe, Oxfam's humanitarian coordinator in Goma, gives a first-hand account of what's happening in DRC. Part 1 of 3.
- Update from DRC, Part 3
- Samual Ngabe, Oxfam's humanitarian coordinator in Goma, gives a first-hand account of what's happening in DRC. Part 3 of 3.
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New respect needed for international law designed to protect civilians.
As villagers flee new fighting in Congo, Oxfam works to bring them clean water
Many are now sheltering with host families and often crowded into single-room houses with poor access to clean water and sanitation.
'If only the world would not look away'
A new wave of atrocities hits villagers as fighting continues between the Congolese army and a rebel group in eastern Congo.
An aid worker's diary from Congo
Helen Hawking, Oxfam's public health coordinator in eastern Congo, relates her day-by-day experiences coping with the crisis.
Humanitarian press officer Rebecca Wynn reports from eastern Congo, where a wave of violence has forced more than 250,000 people to flee their homes since August.
Just a boy: meeting child soldiers in eastern Congo
Humanitarian press officer Rebecca Wynn reports from eastern Congo, where a wave of violence has forced more than 250,000 people to flee their homes since August.
Escalation of the crisis in Congo: November 2008
A fresh wave of conflict in eastern Congo has forced a new round of displacement and violence.
Eyewitness in Congo: Godefroid Marhegane
A first-hand account from staff member Godefroid Marhegane, who lives in Goma with his wife and six children.
Rape: one global step toward stopping it
A new bill proposes a five-year strategy to address violence against women in countries around the world, particularly during times of conflict and humanitarian crises.
