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  • Oxfam condemns cancellation of legal registration of the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights

    13 December 2018
    Oxfam condemns the Nicaraguan National Assembly’s decision yesterday to cancel the legal registration of the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (CENIDH), the country’s most prominent human rights organization.
  • For 40 years, the Quechua communities in Perú have lived with contaminated rivers, and poor health as a result of oil drilling

    Unearthed: land, power and inequality in Latin America

    30 November 2016

    Combating inequality in Latin America requires addressing the extreme concentration in access to and control over land, as well as in the distribution of benefits from its use.

  • 200 million in Latin America at risk of poverty again

    29 September 2015

    The richest 1% in Latin America and the Caribbean owns 41% of the region’s total wealth and if this trend continues, in only 8 years’ time the progress that has been achieved there in reducing poverty could drastically reverse, warns Oxfam today. On average, the annual income of Latin American billionaires is almost 5,000 times greater than that of the region’s poorest people.

  • Mexico: Initial reaction from Oxfam on the Oaxaca mudslides

    28 September 2010

    Silvia Mancilla, Spokesperson of Oxfam Mexico said:

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