Topic: Crisis Response

Mathura sat on a wooden stool during the ceremony, next to his bride, who was wearing a yellow sari. He’s not sure what they said to each other, if anything.

$200 million out of the $529 million that was pledged at a similar conference in Nairobi in February 2015 is yet to reach the people who desperately need it.

After years of political instability and months of continuous airstrikes, one would not expect to hear a statement like this from a Yemeni person, but 26-year-old, Hana is boldly speaking on behalf of youth in Yemen eager to be “agents of change”, in a country seemingly plagued by conflict. Just this week, Hana was walking to the CARE office in Sanaa when a huge blast only 200 meters away sent her running into a nearby bank building for shelter.

As peace talks between Yemen’s conflicting parties convene on June 14, humanitarian agency, CARE, calls on all parties to reach a permanent ceasefire and bring an end to the blockade on commercial imports, as 20 million people in Yemen are now in desperate need of humanitarian assistance.

On the occasion of the World Day Against Child Labour, 12 June, the humanitarian agency CARE is highlighting concerns that Syrian refugee children, with few options and little choice, are being forced to enter the labour market, losing educational opportunities and facing increased protection risks.

In April 2012, Fairouz*, 27, fled her home near Homs in Syria, with her husband and five children. Their house had been bombed and there was little left but to escape with their lives. When they arrived in Jordan, they stayed only one night in Zaatari camp before Jordanian relatives sponsored them, providing them with “bail-out”, so the family could move to an urban center. But life in the city was not easier.

Imagine that one day you awake in your home surrounded by a war you had not expected. Aerial bombings have destroyed the houses of neighbors. Fires are burning. The smell of battle is everywhere, war is enveloping you. You cannot reach your relatives, and you fear they may be dead. You have little money and the banks have closed. You pack what you can in a bag, fleeing with family to a second country, where you hope to find a sense of safety, peace and some assistance.

Bamako, Mali (June 11, 2015) - Thousands of Malian families have fled their homes in recent weeks because of armed conflict and attacks in the northern regions of Timbuktu, Mopti and Gao.

When I was an aid worker in southern Sudan in the 1990s, the fight for independence against Sudan had already been running for many years. It was Africa’s longest civil war