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Image: A truck carrying Oxfam water tanks on its way to the Abbotabad warehouse. Abbotabad is Oxfam’s main logistical hub from where relief goods leave for smaller zonal offices in the earthquake-hit area. Credit: Mirjam van den Berg/Oxfam

South Asia earthquake

Working with local partners Oxfam is supplying emergency aid to thousands affected by the earthquake, including introducing a new, innovative shelter design. Oxfam's new paper, 'A Mountain to Climb,' explains what needs to be done to prevent further deaths and to enable survivors to rebuild their lives and livelihoods.

emergency update
Image: Ignacia Pachuri Vaca, an elder from a Chiquitano indigenous community in Bolivia. Credit: Renato Guimaraes/Oxfam
 

Indigenous rights in Bolivia
 

Oxfam has been working with the Chiquitano people to achieve recognition of their right to land and territory, to protect their cultural identity, and to participate in decision-making forums. Thanks in part to the Oxfam Indigenous Program in Bolivia, the Chiquitano are now helping redesign their country’s political and social landscape.

program story
Image: Justin, Jayanthi and family outside their Oxfam built transitional shelter in Sri Lanka. "We were consulted as to how these shelters would be built and were able to request that our families live next to one another." Credit: Howard Davies/Oxfam
 

Three new Oxfam tsunami reports
 

The tsunami aid effort has been Oxfam's biggest ever relief operation according to its year-end 'Tsunami Accountability Report.' Two additional reports describe progress in providing shelter to the millions of people displaced, and show that more than half of people are back to work and economies are fast returning to normal.

emergency update
Image: The Make Trade Fair junk boat sails past the Hong Kong Convention Center, site of the WTO Ministerial conference. Negotiations are not on track to help developing countries despite promises of support from rich nations. Credit: David Vinuales/Oxfam
 

WTO deal betrays the poor
 

The WTO ministerial meeting in Hong Kong has closed with a deal that fails to deliver on promises to help developing countries work their way out of poverty. While the text includes a pledge to eliminate export subsidies by 2013, this is too little, too late, and there is no offer to cut rich countries' domestic subsidies.

campaign update

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