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Berta Cáceres peacefully opposed a dam being built in her community. For this she paid with her life.
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This week marks one year in office for Jim Yong Kim as president of the World Bank.
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Senait Gebregziabher, Oxfam’s Country Director for Somalia said:
In response to President Obama’s climate plan announcement scheduled for this afternoon Gawain Kripke, research and policy director for Oxfam America said:
Welcoming the publication of the World Bank report, Turn Down the Heat: Climate Extremes, Regional Impa
At the close of the UN Climate Change talks in Bonn, Germany, Oxfam Climate Change Policy Adviser Jan Kowalzig said:
12 June 2013 - Oxfam welcomed the Prime Minister’s announcement today that Canada will require mandatory disclosure of payments to governments by mining, oil and gas companies.
Oxfam welcomes today’s European Parliament vote in favor of legislation which will oblige EU-listed and non-listed big oil, gas, mining and logging companies to declare payments they make i
The poorest nations in the world succeeded in securing a deal to extend the transition period on the implementation of Trade Related Aspects on Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) by eight more ye
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