Hundreds of people continue to arrive each day in Kibati. 2 million people are now displaced across the DRC; the highest figure the country has seen since 2009.
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When ACCRA discovered that development plans for the remote Ugandan district of Bundibugyo failed to reflect the climatic challenges faced by local communities, the project took action. The end result was an integrated approach to adaptation. It's no longer seen as being 'just an environmental issue'.
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Sally Rangecroft is conducting research into the water potential of rock glaciers in Bolivia. Here she shares the realities of conducting research at a high altitude as she reports on her first two field trips.
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A couple of weeks ago, John Rentoul wrote We are all in this together, after all in
the Independent, about how Britain seems to have become a more equal society recently, according to research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
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With water scarcity increasingly impacting on people living in Bolivia, Oxfam has sponsored a geography PhD student to map water resources in the Dry Andes. Here Sally Rangecroft explains more about her research and her experiences.
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For the past year, large parts of the southern province of Abyan have been virtual no-go zones, controlled by militant groups. More than 200,000 people fled their homes, seeking refuge in temporary schools in the southern port of Aden, and remote villages near Abyan. Then in mid-June, the Government of Yemen announced it had retaken control of the capital of Abyan, Zinjibar and other key towns. Families who were displaced during...
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As Arms Trade Treaty negotiations continue in New York, Caroline Green explains how the irresponsible trade in arms is currently undermining women's rights around the world.
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What happens when climate change impacts on source products that are part of a global supply chain? Oxfam posed this question to three multinational corporations to find out what companies can do to support the farmers in their value chains to adapt.
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Understanding how disasters affect people differently depending on gender and other aspects of their identity is a critical starting point for emergency response. Guest editor Joanna Hoare introduces the humanitarian issue of Gender & Development.
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Settlement expansion, enabled by discriminatory restrictions on Palestinians in the Jordan Valley, is destroying the viability of a future Palestinian state, says Lara El-Jazairi co-author of our new report.
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