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.
A few weeks ago the government identified a temporary relocation site for those most vulnerable to the rain in the settlement camps. Last week people began to be relocated there. The camp now houses five thousand people.
This week's International Donors' Conference could mean the difference between life and death for many in Haiti. It's our hope that governments agree upon long-term reconstruction commitments.
Hundreds of Chevron shareholders will descend upon Houston this week to participate in the oil company's annual general meeting.
Marching through the streets of Saint Michel, revelers celebrate on the eve before a feast day honoring the patron saint of their community. Photo by...
Chrisner Roche has sent his children to school in Port-au-Prince, far from where he lives, because there are few good schools in Haiti's rural areas...
According to USA Today, Oxfam America has raised a total of $3,499 for relief in Chile since an 8.8 earthquake hit the South American country on Satur...
Samuel, 12, digs a trench to help drain water from his family's shelter. Photo by Kenny Rae/Oxfam America My Oxfam colleague, Kenny Rae, is in Port-...
Late last week, rain doused the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, heightening the dread of hundreds of thousands of people there who have been living in makeshift shelters since the massive earthquake.
The Haitian earthquake interrupted many things, but the certainty, order and measure of opportunity that the school day brought Haitian kids might be essential to restoring normalcy.
Tonight's my last in Port-au-Prince before flying back to Boston. I arrived here about a week after the earthquake. The hardship people are enduring is profound. I won't forget it.
Food, water, and a tent: That's what 12-year-old Sebastian says would improve life for his family right now -- essentials that reveal just how far away normal is for so many in Port-au-Prince.
Buildings lie in heaps. Rubble blocks the roads. Streets serve as beds at night. But still, people here in Port-au-Prince are reclaiming bits and pieces of the old normal.
Workers in Port-au-Prince assemble supply kits for displaced families. Photo: Oxfam Oxfam America's Coco McCabe is one of several Boston-based coll...
At the Petionville Club, the hills undulate with bed sheets fastened to wooden poles -- makeshift huts pitched on slopes so steep that no one inside could possibly get a good night's sleep.
There's something even more important for Haitians to have if they are going to move their country forward following this disaster. That's education.
A quake survivor at the Petionville Club. Photo: Liz Lucas / Oxfam America Oxfam America's Coco McCabe is one of several Boston-based colleagues in...
Oxfam America's Coco McCabe is one of several Boston-based colleagues in Haiti to help with the relief effort. Here's her latest update, dated January...
Oxfam America has launched a campaign calling on major oil, gas, and mining companies to respect people's "right to know" all the facts about how oil, gas, and mining projects affect their communities.
Photo: Kenny Rae / Oxfam America Oxfam America's Coco McCabe is one of several Boston-based colleagues in Haiti to help with the relief effort. He...
It's Sunday in Port-au-Prince -- the second Sunday in this deeply religious country since a devastating earthquake rocked the Haitian capital. Do we work or do we rest?
Friday's 'Hope For Haiti' telethon, organized by George Clooney and broadcast across nearly every major network, raised over $57 million in phone, onl...
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...
