GENEVA (November 15, 2013) — Amid extremely difficult circumstances, CARE’s emergency response teams are working around the clock and ramping up relief efforts to remote areas of the Philippines devastated by Typhoon Haiyan.
Ahead of International Children’s Day (November 20) CARE International voices its concern about Syrian refugee families becoming increasingly reliant on child labour to meet basic survival needs such as food and rent. According to the latest Jordanian government estimates around 30,000 Syrian children are currently working in Jordan.
WARSAW, POLAND (November 15, 2013) - Today, the organisations ActionAid, CARE and WWF released a report at the UN climate conference in Warsaw detailing the establishment of an international mechanism on loss and damage, which aims to inform parties who are discussing it right now.
8 November: As 195 governments meet in Poland for the annual UN climate talks, aid organisation CARE International is calling for urgent global action to tackle climate change and its impacts, which are already causing widespread loss and irreparable damage in many of the world’s poorest countries.
As the extent of the damage caused by Super Typhoon Haiyan begins to emerge, CARE emergency personnel are now working to deliver emergency aid to families impacted by one of the largest storms ever recorded.
As typhoon Haiyan made landfall in the Philippines this morning, bringing wind gusts up to 275 kilometres an hour and heavy rains, CARE and partners are on stand-by to help people in need.
CARE and its partners are responding to the needs of families affected by Super Typhoon Haiyan, which has torn a path across central Philippines, affecting an estimated 10 million people.
CARE has launched an emergency appeal for USD5 million to help some of the millions of people affected by Super Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. CARE and its partners are responding to the disaster, and are mobilizing supplies to provide shelter, food and water to survivors.
CARE calls for the continued protection of civilians in DRC, and warns that the UN-supported Congolese army’s declared victory today over one of the main armed groups in the east of the country does not mean an end to a ruthless conflict that has been raging on for decades, with thousands still being at risks.
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