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World Humanitarian Day – Impunity must end as attacks on aid workers rise to record highs

August 16, 2024

Last year, 280 aid workers were killed in deliberate attacks. According to the Aid Worker Security Database, 2023 was the most dangerous year on record to be an aid worker. Just eight months into the year, 2024 is already the second deadliest year since the database began recording statistics in 1997. Since January, 176 aid [...]

Three Years On: Afghans are Paying the Price for the World’s Neglect

August 14, 2024

Millions of Afghans continue to struggle in one of the world's largest and most complex humanitarian crises, three years after the change in power. Heavily dependent on humanitarian aid, Afghans are trapped in cycles of poverty, displacement, and despair. Afghanistan is at risk of becoming a forgotten crisis without sustained support and engagement from the [...]

Starvation Risk Increases in Sudan Amid Escalating Violence in the East and West

July 12, 2024

(Nairobi, Kenya) Over half of Sudan's population, totaling 26.5 million people, is facing disastrous levels of hunger. This situation is forecasted to worsen as the country endures reduced agricultural output ahead of the next harvest in September 2024, while fighting continues to escalate. Since the beginning of July, an uptick in violence in Sinnar and [...]

Birth under Bombs – 9 Months of Hell in Gaza

July 10, 2024

9 months on from escalation of violence in Gaza, pregnant women 3 x more likely to miscarry(1) and 3 x more likely to die in childbirth(2) In the 9 months, or 40 weeks, that the violence in Gaza has now raged on, women there have conceived, miscarried, and birthed their babies. Instead of spending 9 months safely [...]

Starving in Statistics: CARE’s Response to Gaza Food Insecurity Report

June 26, 2024

In response to the latest IPC report on the level of food insecurity in Gaza, CARE's Interim Country Director for West Bank and Gaza, Daw Mohamed said: "Too often, in recent decades, the international community has failed to truly recognize the depth of suffering caused by hunger, focusing on terminology instead of on humanity. Data on food [...]

Women in war: New CARE report reveals how women are leaders in first response and recovery during armed conflict

June 13, 2024

600 million women around the world live within 50 kilometers of a conflict zone, more than double the number it was in the 1990s. Yet our understanding of how women experience war and respond in these highly complex crises is often clouded by narratives that frame them as, at worst, invisible, or at best, victims. Women in War: Leaders, Responders, and Potential, a [...]