International aid agency CARE Australia is calling on governments, employers and workers to back a new global treaty aimed at curbing violence and harassment in the workplace. The new measure is being debated this week in Geneva by members of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the global body tasked with…

Australian aid projects will be scaled-back as the result of this year’s Federal Budget, CARE Australia has warned. CARE Australia Chief Executive Sally Moyle said the aid cuts announced in the budget, which follow years of consecutive cuts, would have devastating consequences. “This is a selfish decision by the Federal…

Five leading Australian humanitarian agencies are warning that an urgent funding boost is needed to avert a dire outcome for 13 million people who need humanitarian assistance in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. World Vision, Save the Children, Oxfam, CARE, and ActionAid are urging the Australian Government to make…

People in Yemen have been plunged into darkness, literally, over the past three years of war, according to satellite images obtained by aid organisation CARE. The analysis of satellite images by Professor Xi Li and Professor Deren Li of China’s Wuhan University shows Yemen’s cities have lost more than half…

As the Syrian war enters its eighth year, civilians are continuing to bear the brunt of the ongoing humanitarian disaster, international aid organisation CARE has warned. CARE’s Syria Country Director Wouter Schaap said civilians were not just collateral damage of the war but were also being targeted. “The Syrian people…

CARE emergency teams in Papua New Guinea are today assessing the damage caused by last week’s powerful magnitude-7.5 earthquake, and have begun distributing relief supplies. Australian aid worker Anna Bryan, CARE’s Program Director in PNG, said access to affected areas remained a huge challenge. “Many of the places hardest hit…