Topic: Advocacy

Over the past five years CARE has invested significantly in working on gender in emergencies. A new report demonstrates CARE’s progress on this work, and highlights the impact and importance of gender sensitive and equality approaches for ensuring that women and girls are reached and empowered through humanitarian action.

Oxfam and CARE have joined 21 other INGOs and over 120 national and local organisations to call for a reorientation of the humanitarian system towards local agencies, by signing the Charter for Change.

How can we utilise Ban Ki Moon’s vision to change the realities for those affected by war and disaster?

The UN’s Emergency Relief Chief, briefed UN Member States on the Road to Istanbul, outlining six priority areas for “concrete action” to make the World Humanitarian Summit a success.

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

This week marks the 15th anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security. In 2000, the adoption of this resolution represented a landmark victory following years of grassroots mobilisation by women across the globe.

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.

Geneva (August 18, 2015) - On August 19, the international humanitarian community celebrates World Humanitarian Day to honor aid workers dedicated to providing life-saving assistance and to remember those who have tragically lost their lives fulfilling this humanitarian imperative.

The World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) aims at major global reforms to better protect and assist people affected by crisis. The undersigned organisations call on the WHS to put women’s leadership, gender equality and gender-based violence (GBV) at the heart of these reforms.