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CORONAVIRUS UPDATE

As the globe tackles Coronavirus, this blog is highlighting the challenges of those affected and the systemic changes needed.

Farmers work on land next to a silver mine in Guatemala.

On human rights, the US must repair, reflect, and re-engage

Vicki Gass

March 29th, 2021 Active citizenship, Land rights

On January 16, Julio David González Arango, an Indigenous land defender involved in peaceful resistance to a mining operation in Guatemala, was shot in his home. The next day, two other …

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Damares Ramírez, of the Shipibo-Konibo people of the indigenous Shambo Porvenir community. An Oxfam partner in Ucayali, Peru. Photo: Leslie Searles

Averting a Coronavirus-Induced Ethnocide in Latin America

Stephanie Burgos

August 5th, 2020 Climate Change, Indigenous People, Land rights

This year August 9th – International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples – comes at a critical moment. Far from hospitals and news cameras, indigenous people in Latin America are …

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In the Dominican Republic, the Coalition for the Rights and Life of Women demonstrate to demand a presidential veto of a law criminalising abortion even in cases of rape or harm to the mother or baby. Credit: Lorena Espinosa, Oxfam in Dominican Republic.

Feminist leadership in action

Damaris Ruiz, Yohanka Valdes, Maritza Gallardo Lopez and Tamsin Smith

May 23rd, 2019 Agriculture, Gender, Inequality, Influencing, Participation and Leadership, Violence Against Women and Girls

Tamsin Smith interviews Damaris Ruiz, Yohanka Valdes, and Maritza Gallardo Lopez, from Oxfam’s Latin America & Caribbean (LAC) Regional Women’s Rights and Gender Justice group. They share five ways they …

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Couples interviewed by Oxfam in Bolivia. Credit: Oxfam

In the name of love: Act to end intimate partner violence

Catalina Ruiz

December 6th, 2017 Violence Against Women and Girls

‘When someone starts hurting us “in the name of love” it’s time to change partners.’ As we mark the 16 days of activism against gender based violence Catalina Ruiz explains …

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