As governments and donors gather in London for tomorrow’s Girl Summit to end child marriage, international aid organisation CARE Australia is urging participants to intensify their efforts to address the roots of child marriage. It follows a pledge by CARE to help communities in Bangladesh and Nepal to reverse the tide against child marriage. With […]
Three years young: South Sudan on the brink of famine

Exactly three years on from scenes of joyful celebration that marked the birth of a new nation, South Sudan is now home to of one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises and edging closer to full-scale famine. More than 10,000 people have been killed since the outbreak of violence in December last year. More than […]
South Sudan: ‘Raping women as punishment’

You can support CARE’s work by Aimee Ansari, CARE’s Country Director in South Sudan Sometimes when I give an interview, I have to turn off the part of my brain that analyses what I’m saying. The implications of what I’m telling are too devastating: 64 reported cases of violence in a protection area just within […]


