Topic: Advocacy

CARE International welcomes the report of the High Level Panel (HLP) on the Post 2015 Development Agenda and is particularly encouraged by the ambition to end, not just reduce

Yesterday, the United Nations Security Council adopted a new resolution that focuses on sexual violence in conflict. The resolution builds on the G8 declaration that was adopted in April.

Geneva, June 6 2013. Empowering women and girls to achieve their rights is a fundamental pillar of peaceful development in the Balkans, says CARE International in its latest report Evidence of Change in Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in the Balkans. The report focuses on CARE’s work in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro and Serbia over the past seven years and highlights the impact of programs and partnerships to overcome poverty and marginalization of minorities.

March 25, 2013: As William Hague and Angelina Jolie visit CARE International’s work in DRC with survivors of sexual violence in conflict, CARE warns that Hague’s proposals to increase prosecutions will fail unless survivors’ needs come first.

London, April 11, 2103: Geoffrey Dennis, Chief Executive of CARE International UK and advisor to William Hague on the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative, said:

Two weeks ago, Yawo Douvon, CARE’s country director in the Democratic Republic of Congo, found himself showing Angelina Jolie and UK foreign minister William Hague around the Lac Vert camp for displaced people near Goma, where they had come to meet rape survivors.

The annual session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UN CSW) ended this evening with an agreement by Member States to strengthen global efforts to prevent and respond to a wide spectrum of violence against women and girls

As hundreds of diplomats meet at the United Nations (UN) in New York to negotiate global commitments on ending violence against women and girls, humanitarian organisation CARE International warns that a failure by governments to secure a strong agreement risks setting back women’s rights efforts by decades.

During the first week of February the European Council will meet to decide the EU’s financial priorities and to outline a spending plan covering the next seven years.