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This year’s World Food Day celebrates family farming but aid organization CARE International says there’s little to celebrate in South Sudan where many of the country’s farmers have been displaced in the fighting that erupted in December 2013.

RAMALLAH/JERUSALEM, 09 October 2014: Increased participation by Palestinian women is crucial to creating a process towards peacefully resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and bringing sustainable development to the West Bank and Gaza, according to…

CARE has joined other leading aid agencies in warning that parts of South Sudan – already the world’s worst food crisis – could fall into famine early next year if the nine-month long conflict escalates as expected.

‘Terrified, exhausted and often with no idea where to go next’, more than 140,000 people who have fled the violence in Kobane for Turkey are in desperate need of support from the international community.

With harvesting season approaching, CARE International has called for urgent action to reduce needless deaths from hunger and malnutrition.

CARE is deeply concerned about the influx of around 66,000 refugees who have crossed the border to Turkey in the past days. “This is a major humanitarian emergency, with tens of thousands of people in need of shelter, food and water,” says John Uniack…

International aid organisation CARE International has welcomed the decision by South Sudan’s parliament to ratify the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.

“The areas of South Sudan at the greatest risk for developing famine are on the frontlines of the conflict, where aid agencies cannot reach people in need due to insecurity,” said Justus Liku, Senior Food Security Advisor at CARE, and former facilitator…

After heavy monsoon rains have caused devastating floods and landslides in Western Nepal last week, CARE is scaling up its emergency response for thousands of people affected.