Topic: Crisis Response

“The house was flooded one day and started tilting, I heard the plates crashing to the ground first. In the night it collapsed,” remembers Fenni.

The villages of Snihurivka and Novovasylivka have been under Russian military control for nine months. The Kakhovka dam explosion has further complicated an already difficult situation. Almost all the young people have left the village and never returned.

The announcement by Russia to pull out of the UN-brokered Black Sea Grain deal with Ukraine is alarming. The news is devastating for communities in Somalia as 90% of the country's imported grain comes from Ukraine and Russia.

CARE strongly urges all parties to uphold their obligations in the agreement, and remain at the negotiating table to find an alternative solution and mitigate the impacts that will flow from the collapse of the initiative.

Established at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, CARE Türkiye’s helpline has been serving as a multi-purpose information line for the refugee and host communities living the South-central provinces of Türkiye.

“The veto at the United Nations Security Council today preventing the renewal of the Syrian cross-border mechanism marks a low point in the Council's humanitarian record since the start of the Syrian conflict," says CARE's International Secretary General.

Displacement in the Democratic Republic of Congo continues to expose women and girls to high levels of gender-based violence (GBV) and sexual exploitation. Displacement in the Democratic Republic of Congo continues to expose women and girls to high levels of gender-based violence (GBV) and sexual exploitation. Over the years, the number of people affected by sexual violence has been steadily on the increase.

The failure to reauthorize UN cross-border aid into northwest Syria today will only add to the anxiety and uncertainty that Syrians living there are already enduring. We call on the UNSC to urgently convene to re-authorize the resolution for a further 12 months at a minimum.

As the highly anticipated UNSC vote on cross-border aid into northwest Syria from Türkiye approaches, CARE highlights the huge repercussions the non-renewal of the resolution could have on the ability of humanitarian actors to respond to the needs of 4.1 million people.