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Climate change & the floods in Libya

By Travis Nichols and CARE Staff · September 19, 2023

Record temperatures intensified the impact of storms like Daniel, leading to severe floods in Libya, especially in the city of Derna. As such extreme events become more common, organizations like CARE are innovating solutions. With North Africa warming at twice the global rate, urgent action, including disaster risk reduction and resilience investment, is crucial.

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Courage, Compassion, and the CARE Package: America’s Moral Leadership Can Help Us End the Global Hunger Crisis

By Michelle Nunn · July 27, 2021

We need to dream big and act boldly – we have done it before.

Press Releases

Adoption of Resolution 2582

July 9, 2021

CARE International is relieved by the United Nations Security Council vote today to maintain humanitarian assistance for more than four million Syrians in the Northwest of the country through the Bab al-Hawa crossing for effectively another 12 months. We are disappointed, nonetheless, that calls from humanitarian organizations like CARE to increase access, by reinstating Bab al-Salam and Al Yarubiyah crossings, have not been answered.

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UN Security Council Syria Humanitarian Briefing Remarks by Sherine Ibrahim, CARE Turkey Country Director

June 24, 2021

Read remarks delivered by CARE Turkey's Country Director Sherine Ibrahim to the United Nations Security Council on June 23rd, 2021.

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Open Letter to United Nations Security Council Ambassadors on Syria Cross Border Resolution

June 22, 2021

The United Nations Security Council has until July 10 to renew the Syria cross-border resolution, which ensures life-saving UN aid reaches millions of Syrians in need. NGO leaders are calling on the Security Council to renew the resolution for a period of 12 months and guarantee UN cross-border access to both North West and North East Syria.

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Devex: Where are the women in food insecurity analysis?

January 6, 2021

Women are more likely to experience food insecurity than men, and the pandemic has exacerbated this divide. Women continue to shoulder more household responsibilities, but also now bear the burden of increased poverty and health risks.

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19th News: The pandemic has left mothers struggling to feed their kids

November 24, 2020

In Washington, D.C., the chances of a big federal relief bill appear tenuous at best. On top of that, multiple pandemic unemployment benefits are set to expire December 26 unless they are reauthorized by Congress. Experts say 12 million people could lose benefits as a result.

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Associated Press: In multiple countries, alarm over hunger crisis rings louder

November 20, 2020

ABS, Yemen (AP) — The twin baby boys lay on a bed of woven palm leaves in a remote camp for displaced people in Yemen’s north, their collar bones and ribs visible. They cried loudly, twisting as if in pain, not from disease but from the hunger gnawing away at them.

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Reuters: As millions face famine, women at risk as they eat last and least

November 18, 2020

LONDON, Nov 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - With millions on the brink of famine in four nations, women and girls will be hardest hit due to cultural beliefs and COVID-19’s economic impacts, the charity CARE said on Wednesday.

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New York Times: The U.N. dips into an emergency fund as the first famines of the pandemic loom

November 18, 2020

Scrambling to avert the first famines of the coronavirus era, the top relief official at the United Nations announced Tuesday that he was taking $100 million from a disaster emergency fund so the organization could fight acute hunger in seven countries.

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Climate change & the floods in Libya

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Courage, Compassion, and the CARE Package: America’s Moral Leadership Can Help Us End the Global Hunger Crisis

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Press Releases

Adoption of Resolution 2582

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Press Releases

UN Security Council Syria Humanitarian Briefing Remarks by Sherine Ibrahim, CARE Turkey Country Director

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Press Releases

Open Letter to United Nations Security Council Ambassadors on Syria Cross Border Resolution

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Media Coverage

Devex: Where are the women in food insecurity analysis?

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19th News: The pandemic has left mothers struggling to feed their kids

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Associated Press: In multiple countries, alarm over hunger crisis rings louder

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Reuters: As millions face famine, women at risk as they eat last and least

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New York Times: The U.N. dips into an emergency fund as the first famines of the pandemic loom

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United Nations

News

Climate change & the floods in Libya

Ideas

Courage, Compassion, and the CARE Package: America’s Moral Leadership Can Help Us End the Global Hunger Crisis

Press Releases

Adoption of Resolution 2582

Press Releases

UN Security Council Syria Humanitarian Briefing Remarks by Sherine Ibrahim, CARE Turkey Country Director

Press Releases

Open Letter to United Nations Security Council Ambassadors on Syria Cross Border Resolution

Media Coverage

Devex: Where are the women in food insecurity analysis?

Media Coverage

19th News: The pandemic has left mothers struggling to feed their kids

Media Coverage

Associated Press: In multiple countries, alarm over hunger crisis rings louder

Media Coverage

Reuters: As millions face famine, women at risk as they eat last and least

Media Coverage

New York Times: The U.N. dips into an emergency fund as the first famines of the pandemic loom

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