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Business of Making Bullets Tops $4 Billion

Louis Belanger | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Oxfam, Att, Weapons, Oxfam International, Arms Trade Treaty, Arms Trade, Trade, Global Ammunition Trade, World News
Louis Belanger

According to a new study by Oxfam, the ammunition trade tops $4 billion and yet the world has little regulation to control and keep track of who the bullets are sold to.

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Fear for the Women of Afghanistan

Dr. Peggy Drexler | Posted 03.18.2012

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Women's Rights, Vietnam, Taliban, Afghan Women, Oxfam International, Women News
Dr. Peggy Drexler

As the United States begins to tidy up its affairs in Afghanistan, I have a bad feeling about the women we'll leave behind.

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2 Years Later: How To Help In Haiti

Posted 01.12.2012

Read More: Video, Haiti Earthquake, Care, International Rescue Committee, Haiti, American Red Cross, Haiti Earthquake Relief, Haiti Progress, Mercy Corps, Unicef, Sean Penn, Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, Oxfam International, J/P HRO, Impact, Impact News

Two years after the devastating 7.0 earthquake devastated Haiti, lives and buildings are still far from restored. Although $4.6 billion has been c...

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Turkana: Photo Story of How North Kenya Is Coping With Drought

Louis Belanger | Posted 10.17.2011

Read More: Drought, Oxfam, Oxfam International, Food Crisis, Kenya, Turkana, World News
Louis Belanger

2011-08-17-turkana.pngTurkana is just one of many regions in the Horn of Africa that have been affected by the serious drought that has put more than 15 million people at risk.

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Laos: the World's Most Bombed Country

Louis Belanger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: International Law, Cluster Bomb Treaty, Cluster Bombs, Laos, Oxfam International, Treaty, World News
Louis Belanger

We walked around a field where the ground was literally littered with small holes and flags, marking the dangerous bomblets buried inches beneath the surface. There must have been 50 munitions scattered across a field the size of a basketball court.

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Pakistan & the children of the floods - PHOTO-BLOG

Louis Belanger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Photos, Pakistan Floods, Oxfam, Children, Oxfam International, World Photos, Pakistan, World News
Louis Belanger

This photo blog was written by my colleague Mubashar Hasan who was recently in Pakistan doing the ground work for Oxfam affiliates. Mubashar travelled...

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Pakistan Floods: Saving livestock While Fleeing

Louis Belanger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pakistan Floods, Oxfam, Oxfam International, Humanitarian Aid, Pakistan, World News
Louis Belanger

Which one should come first? Human life or livestock? At least to some people here, saving livestock means saving their own life because without those livestock living would be as difficult or equal to death.

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Pakistan floods: Voices of People From Sindh Province

Louis Belanger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pakistan Floods, Oxfam, Oxfam International, Pakistan, Oxfam America, World News
Louis Belanger

Tonight, after a fresh wave of flood-affected people came to the relief camps in Kot Mithan, those who had been there for the last two days were instructed to leave within an hour of the newcomers' arrival.

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More Rain Expected This Weekend in South Pakistan: Oxfam Boosts Its Aid Effort

Louis Belanger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pakistan Floods, Oxfam, Oxfam International, Pakistan, Oxfam America, World News
Louis Belanger

Mobile water tanks, first aid, boats and local volunteers have been put on high alert by Oxfam as the worst floods in living memory surge south. Local organisations supported by Oxfam in Sindh are mobilised and on standby.

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Double Catastrophe for People in Pakistan Swat Valley

Louis Belanger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Floods, Oxfam, Oxfam International, Humanitarian Aid, Pakistan, Oxfam America, World News
Louis Belanger

People in the Swat Valley in Northern Pakistan hit by the catastrophic floods were only just recovering from the conflict that forced them from their homes last year.

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On the Front Lines of the War Against Hunger in Niger

Louis Belanger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oxfam Novib, West Africa, Oxfam, Niger, Oxfam International, Food Crisis, Famine, World News
Louis Belanger

The 2009 harvest in Niger produced less than a quarter of the country's annual needs. The period between harvests began in April this year, instead of June. Now half of all Nigeriens do not have enough food.

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Arms Trade Treaty Talks at the UN: Bulletproof Arms Trade Treaty Needed

Louis Belanger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Negotiations, Oxfam, Arms Control, Oxfam International, United Nations, Oxfam America, World News
Louis Belanger

Official talks for an Arms Trade Treaty starts on July 12th at the United nations HQ in New York. We need a robust deal to stop arms getting into the hands of human rights abusers and warmongers.

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Israeli organization empowers Palestinians to appeal against house demolition threats

Louis Belanger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Palestinian Territories, Palestine, Oxfam, Israel, West Bank, Oxfam International, World News
Louis Belanger

On a calm morning in the south of the West Bank, Palestinian villagers in At-Tuwani are experiencing two very different types of encounters with Israe...

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Afghanistan: Aid group fighting in the frontline - in the battle against poverty

Louis Belanger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oxfam, Oxfam International, Afghanistan, World News
Louis Belanger

Oxfam's Zahra Akkerhuys spent a week in rural Afghanistan visiting Oxfam's team. This is her diary. Monday It's hard to get a handle on Afghanistan. ...

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The World's Richest Nations are Fair-Weather Friends to the Poor

Bill Nighy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill Nighy, Oxfam International, Oxfam, G20 Summit, g20, Bill Nighy Oxfam, Impact News
Bill Nighy

The world's richest nations are proving themselves to be fair-weather friends to the world's poorest people: unreliable at a time when they are reeling from the economic crisis and food shortages.

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Nicholas Newlife Bets On Sports, Leaves Money To Oxfam In Will

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oxfam, Gambling Money to Oxfam, Kidlington Oxford, Roger Federer, Oxfam International, Nicholas Newlife, Man Leaves Money to Oxfam, Impact News

A few years back, Nicholas Newlife of Kidlington (near Oxford) placed a bet of €275 (that's Euros) -- he wagered that tennis superstar Roger Federer...

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Photo Blog: Niger Food Crisis

Louis Belanger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Photos, World Photos, Food Crisis, Humanitarian Crisis, West Africa, Oxfam, West-Africa, Oxfam International, Humanitarian Aid, World News
Louis Belanger

More than ten million people across West Africa are facing severe hunger and malnutrition because of drought, poor harvests and rising food prices.

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Too early for an Afghan amnesty?

Louis Belanger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jirga, Oxfam, Oxfam International, Peace, Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, World News
Louis Belanger

The Afghan 'peace jirga' is under way - but reconciliation will be difficult when support for the insurgency is still so strong "They don't want peac...

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WATCH: Haitians Explain Their Needs In Student Film Project

Adam Clark Estes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Haitiblog, Video, Haiti Earthquake, Cine Institute, Film Students, Cnn, Haiti, Associated Press, Oxfam, Port-Au-Prince, Oxfam International, Ap, World News
Adam Clark Estes

The world is used to seeing videos from Haiti emblazoned with the CNN logo or AP watermark. But the moment is rare when Haitians can tell their own st...

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Working with communities to rebuild Haiti - Oxfam is there

Louis Belanger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oxfam, Haiti Earthquake, Oxfam International, Humanitarian Aid, Haiti, Haitiblog, Impact News
Louis Belanger

Marcel Stoessel is Oxfam Great Britain's Humanitarian lead in Haiti Oxfam continues to work closely with Haitian communities in the aftermath of Ja...

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Gaza Unplugged - The electricity crisis in Gaza sometimes means life or death

Louis Belanger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gaza Humanitarian Crisis, Oxfam, Gaza Strip, Electricity, Gaza, Oxfam International, World News
Louis Belanger

Daily power cuts in Gaza resulting from the Israeli blockade mean that Palestinians must now use cheap generators in their attempt to carry on with da...

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Food crisis in Sahel - Looking for food in anthills

Louis Belanger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: West Africa, Global Food Crisis, Oxfam, Oxfam International, Food Crisis, Chad, Sahel, World News
Louis Belanger

Almost 10 million people across West Africa are facing a food crisis following erratic rains that have caused poor food harvests and water shortages. ...

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Cité-Soleil: Oxfam at Work in the Heart of the City's Most Notorious 'Hoods

Caroline Gluck | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Haiti Earthquake Relief, Oxfam, Haiti Earthquake, Oxfam International, Impact News
Caroline Gluck

Every day, around 1,000 kits are assembled and distributed to needy communities. "These kits will be a big help because some people lost everything. They don't have anything at all," a Haitian woman told me.

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Moving forward, one street at a time

Coco McCabe | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Haiti Earthquake Relief, Oxfam, Haiti Earthquake, Oxfam International, Oxfam America, Haiti, Home News
Coco McCabe

Oxfam's Yolette Etienne talks with quake survivors in Port-au-Prince. Photo: Liz Lucas / Oxfam America Oxfam America's Coco McCabe is one of severa...

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Someone needs to keep watch

Coco McCabe | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Haiti Earthquake Relief, Oxfam, Haiti Earthquake, Oxfam International, Haiti, Oxfam America, World News
Coco McCabe

Yesterday evening, a colleague received an email from Nelson Gaviria, a Peruvian national who was working for Oxfam in Haiti when the January 12, 2010...

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