Development Blog
Follow the money: How UN commitments to protect women and girls in emergencies can be translated into action
By Barbara Jackson 22nd Sep 2014
As world leaders meet at the UN General Assembly, US Secretary of State John Kerry is holding a high-level review of the global ‘Call to Action on Violence Against Women and Girls in Emergencies’. But what is the best way…
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Women carrying seeds distributed by CARE to households in Jonglei, one of the areas most affected by the conflict in South Sudan
© CARE/Josh Estey
UN climate summit: A three-point plan to help people on the climate change front-line
By Robert Glasser 19th Sep 2014
Only days remain before world leaders gather at the UN climate summit in New York. The summit, which is being billed as the most important high-level event on climate change since heads of state met in Copenhagen in 2009, is…
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A woman stands in her devastated home after Typhoon Haiyan hit Merida village in the Philippines, November 2013
© CARE/Peter Caton
Three reasons for attending our fringe event at the Labour Party conference
By Gerry Boyle 18th Sep 2014
CARE International and the Fairtrade Foundation are hosting an event at this year’s Labour Party conference to bring together business, civil society and politicians – Inclusive chocolate? How can private sector partnerships ensure women farmers and workers get a bigger…
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Farmers preparing cocoa for drying at Ampenkro village, Ghana
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Struggles over power and violent conflict are seemingly synonymous but are most frameworks for analysing conflict weak at analysing power? And what can peacebuilders learn from recent discussions on political analysis?
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A jeep run by MISCA - the African-led International Support Mission to the Central African Republic
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CARE had a big role at the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict in June – and you’ve read on Insights what we think the Summit achieved, and what are the challenges ahead. But what is CARE doing…
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CARE International UK chief executive Laurie Lee presents the CARE petition to William Hague
© CARE/Frantzesco Kangaris
CARE's conference on Women, Migration and Development (July 2014), organised in partnership with the Overseas Development Institute, examined the extent to which migrants the world over suffer stigma and discrimination. The conference included a session on the media and its…
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Nargis Pavin, who worked in a factory in India, with two of her children in Botospur, Bangladesh
© CARE/Jon Spaull
