23 May 2012
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Caroline Gluck
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Blog channel: Conflict & Emergencies
I’ve often had to document Oxfam’s hygiene promotion activities in communities, schools, markets and other public places. But never a prison. Until now.
23 May 2012
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Caroline Berger
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Blog channel: Conflict & Emergencies
The Friends of Yemen conference taking place today offers a critical opportunity to make a difference in the lives of millions of ordinary Yemenis. Yemen is facing a severe humanitarian crisis with...
18 May 2012
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Joel M Bassuk
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Blog channel: Conflict & Emergencies
In the Sahel region of West Africa, families are facing a grim reality. A food crisis is now threatening more than 18 miillion people. Without help they won't get enough to eat.Drought, poor harvests...
8 May 2012
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Joel M Bassuk
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Blog channel: Conflict & Emergencies
In the Sahel region of West Africa, families are facing a grim reality. A food crisis is now threatening more than 15 miillion people. Without help they won't get enough to eat.Drought, poor harvets...
2 May 2012
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Martin Butcher
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Blog channel: Conflict & Emergencies
The growing food crisis provoked by drought in the Sahel is affecting millions of people. This crisis has been deepened by the conflict in Mali sparked by the proliferation of arms from Libya in the...
26 April 2012
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Caroline Gluck
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Blog channel: Conflict & Emergencies
In the village of Bangadi, in Congo's north-eastern Orientale province, you don't have to look hard to see the impact that the vicious rebel group, the Lord's Resistance Army, the LRA, has had on the...
16 April 2012
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Rima Chemirik
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Blog channel: Conflict & Emergencies
Rima Chemirik, Advocacy Officer for the Treaty on the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) of Oxfam France, has recently been in Lebanon to attend the launch of the regional campaign for the ATT.
It is always a...
11 April 2012
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Jeremy Hobbs
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Blog channel: Conflict & Emergencies
Hunger affects about 1 billion people around the world, and as the economic crisis continues, the push for growth can actually make matters worse.
6 April 2012
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Liesbeth van der Hoogte
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Blog channel: Conflict & Emergencies
After two successful summer school sessions in 2010 and 2011, Oxfam Novib once again organizes a summer school on Women, Peace and Security in The Hague, the Netherlands this year.
28 March 2012
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Øistein Thorsen
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Blog channel: Conflict & Emergencies
One hundred days from now, the 193 member states of the United Nations will gather in New York for a month-long negotiating conference to agree the first ever international treaty to regulate the...
