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Venezuelan Migrants at High Risk for Trafficking and Abuse

June 19, 2019

LA GUAJIRA, COLOMBIA (June 19, 2019) — Abuse and exploitation of women migrating from Venezuela has reached alarming levels, the leading humanitarian organization CARE has found in a snapshot gender analysis at the Venezuela-Colombia border released today. The analysis – performed at two checkpoints along the border – found troubling indications of sexual violence perpetrated against women and girls at informal border crossings. 

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Venezuela’s Power Outage: Blackout leads to increased vulnerability of women and girls

March 13, 2019

Responding to the ongoing power outages in Venezuela, CARE International experts have warned that the situation is exacerbating an already catastrophic humanitarian situation. Catalina Vargas, the Humanitarian Regional Coordinator for Latin America, said:  “We are aware that things have pretty much ground to a halt because of the power outages and the lack of water – both

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CARE: Humanitarian Assistance in Venezuela Should Not be Used as a Political Tool

February 26, 2019

ATLANTA—CARE President and CEO, Michelle Nunn, issued the following statement on the escalating humanitarian crisis in Venezuela:"Following recent events on the Venezuela-Colombia border, CARE calls on all actors to decouple humanitarian assistance from political objectives – the suffering of people in need should not be politicized, and the provision of humanitarian aid should not be leveraged as a political tool. We

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CARE Scales Up Response to the Venezuela Crisis, Warns Women of Venezuela Face Unprecedented Suffering Across Latin America.

December 14, 2018

QUITO (December 13, 2018) – CARE is scaling up operations across Latin America to meet the huge and increasing needs. It is urgently seeking an addition US $45 million to support people both inside Venezuela and in Ecuador, Colombia and Peru over the next three years. “With additional funds we plan to scale up our operations,

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Venezuela: Mismatched Migration Policies Leave Displaced People in Dire Conditions between Borders

September 13, 2018

QUITO (September 13, 2018) - The international community urgently needs to step up funding and better coordinate their efforts to support hundreds of thousands of refugees from Venezuela, warns aid organization CARE. Growing numbers of people continue to leave Venezuela in search of safety while neighboring countries become increasingly strained. “The recent political developments in Venezuela

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