Development Blog
Suffering in silence: The 70 million people you might have never heard of
By Laurie Lee 23rd Jan 2018
2017 has no question been a year of harrowing humanitarian crises, a deadly year of natural disasters. According to the UN, never in our lifetimes have so many people been in need of humanitarian assistance as in 2017. What might surprise…
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A girl and her sister wait for food supplements at a CARE-run health centre in Chad
2018 marks 100 years since the first women (and only some of them) were legally allowed to vote in the UK. The year is full of opportunities to look back at how far the UK has come in women’s political…
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2018 development prediction: 4 ways to make sure the future is feminist – from London to Yemen
By Alice Allan 03rd Jan 2018
As we launch into 2018 it is worth reflecting that 2017 has not only seen some political upheavals in the UK and the US but also some fundamental social shifts. Whilst the revelations of sexual harassment and abuse of power…
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Women in Somaliland during the 2017 drought
The main objective of CARE’s microfinance programme Lendwithcare is to improve the lives of poor people. So how do we measure whether we are achieving this or not? In Pakistan, with our partner organisation Akhuwat, our household survey of loan…
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Allah Rakhi, a seamstress from Pakistan and recipient of a Lendwithcare loan
This week (14-15 December 2017) Theresa May is in Brussels for a crunch time EU Heads of State Council meeting. The terms of Brexit, including the status of European citizens, the Irish border and future trading relations, are top of…
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A woman refugee talking to a CARE staff member at an ECHO-funded advice and information project in Greece
Will the UN Global Compact on Refugees leave women and girls behind?
By Howard Mollett 11th Dec 2017
This week (12-13 December 2017) diplomats meet in Geneva to take stock in negotiations towards a new UN ‘Global Compact on Refugees’ at the UNHCR High Commissioner’s Dialogue on Protection Challenges. To coincide with the Dialogue, CARE is publishing new…
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Berivan, from Aleppo, Syria, with her daughter in front of her tent in Vasilika refugee camp, Greece
