RIO 20 Twenty Lost Years
The UN Conference in Sustainable Development (Rio+20) has failed the world’s poor people. “Millions of poor women and men now have to pick up the pieces from the mess world leaders left behind here in Rio
Brazil ranks 84 out of 189 on the Human Development Index (HDI). Since 2001, CARE International has been helping to implement programs to combat poverty in the country.
Beginning in 1953, Brazil, along with other Latin American countries with European and Japanese immigrant communities, sent CARE Packages™ to Europe as part of CARE International's larger war recovery efforts after World War II.
CARE International has been implementing programs to combat poverty in Brazil since 2001, when it established an office in São Paulo and began project work in Bahia. Today, our work in Brazil is mainly in support of national partners with similar goals of achieving victories over widespread poverty.
The UN Conference in Sustainable Development (Rio+20) has failed the world’s poor people. “Millions of poor women and men now have to pick up the pieces from the mess world leaders left behind here in Rio
After the first day of world leaders’ negotiations at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), CARE International warns that Rio+20 will be nothing more than a political charade if leaders don’t start
World leaders arriving in Rio de Janeiro for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) must drastically increase their leadership to reach an outcome that eliminates poverty and protects our one planet, urges CARE International
It is hard to see the draft outcome agreed to this week in Rio by 114 heads of government as even a modest step forward to confront the challenges posed by global poverty, inequality, and environmental degradation.
In FY2024, CARE worked around the world, contributing to saving lives, fighting poverty, and increasing social justice.