Today’s Advisory Opinion is a landmark step forward in clarifying what international law requires of States in the face of the climate emergency. The Court leaves no doubt: governments have legal obligations to take far more ambitious, immediate, and collective measures to confront climate change and the significant harm done by human activities to the […]
As mass starvation spreads across Gaza, our colleagues and those we serve are wasting away
July 23, 2025
More than 100 organisations are sounding the alarm to allow in life-saving aid. As the Israeli government’s siege starves the people of Gaza, aid workers are now joining the same food lines, risking being shot just to feed their families. With supplies now totally depleted, humanitarian organisations are witnessing their own colleagues and partners waste […]
Wealthy Nations Fail to Deliver on Climate Finance Promises, Undermining Adaptation Effort
June 17, 2025
Wealthy countries still fail to deliver the adaptation finance that developing nations urgently need to confront the escalating climate crisis, according to Hollow Commitments 2025, a new report by CARE Denmark. The analysis of climate finance plans from 27 developed countries, including the G7 nations, finds that only three nations—Denmark, New Zealand, and the Netherlands—explicitly aim […]
CARE statement on Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution proposals
May 27, 2025
In response to news reports on the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s (GHF) proposals for distribution of aid inside Gaza, CARE has publicly and privately shared our concerns regarding the food distribution hub mechanism outlined in the GHF proposal. CARE does not support, nor has it agreed to collaborate with GHF or any form of militarisation of […]
CARE partner staff and their families killed in intensified Israeli airstrikes
May 22, 2025
We are deeply saddened by the news of the killing of two staff members of Juzoor for Health and Social Development, Ahmed Khilla and Yahya Shihab, along with their families, in airstrikes on Jabalia camp last week. Yahya Shihab, who worked as a nurse at one of Juzoor’s medical points in Jabalia, was killed along […]
Statement from Jolien Veldwijk, CARE Palestine Country Director following IPC report
May 13, 2025
“It is unconscionable that this man-made situation will see Palestinians across Gaza – many of whom are already skin and bones – face the gruelling fate of slow, painful starvation and the shadow of death from hunger. “For more than a year and a half, we have witnessed the spread of starvation across Gaza, which […]
