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CARE International CEO and Secretary General, Dr. Wolfgang Jamann, has been named an International Geneva Gender Champion; committing to the promotion of gender equality in the city’s international community.

El Niño is the world's biggest weather phenomenon, happening every few years when warm water collected in the western Pacific slosh back eastwards, affecting rain patterns and temperatures across the world. The last major El Niño happened in 1997-98,…

our response must be clear-eyed and consistent with the values of societies where the absolute respect for all human life and dignity is not modulated by ideology or prejudice pertaining to culture or religion.

(November, 2015) - The global weather system known as “El Niño” this year is likely to become one of the strongest on record, affecting rain patterns and temperatures across the world for the rest of the year and into 2016. The last major El Niño was in…

(9 November 2015) - The international community must agree on a bold new deal for Syria’s refugees if it is serious about tackling the largest humanitarian crisis since World War II, seven aid agencies warned today in a new report.

The letter below was sent to the United Nations Security Council and other UN offices on October 19th, 2015.

Geneva (2 October 2015) - The ongoing crises in Syria, Yemen and elsewhere have caused displacement and humanitarian needs on a scale never before recorded. Yet it is about to get worse.

NEW YORK (September 25, 2015) - As world leaders convene in New York to discuss the agenda for Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs), CARE International announced today its own ambitious goal to economically empower 30 million more women by 2020.

Amman/Geneva (4 September 2015) - The death of Alan, Ghalib and Rehanna Kurdi in the sea between Turkey and Greece this week is the latest, most visible tragedy of a crisis that has caused millions of individual tragedies over the last four years.