Press releases

• Syrian peace talks must address needs of those fleeing violence

  Friday, 24 May 2013

  World Vision calls on the organisers of a proposed Syrian peace summit to swiftly set a date and map out a clear agenda to advance a political resolution.

  With more than 6.8 million people in Syria now in need of humanitarian assistance, it is critical the international community unites to halt the growing death toll and stop the refugee crises ...

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• Imagine what could be achieved with $1.9b, World Vision

  Tuesday, 14 May 2013

  The world’s poorest people will be short-changed by $1.9 billion as a result of tonight’s Federal Budget, says international aid agency World Vision Australia.

  World Vision Australia chief executive Tim Costello welcomed the Government’s decision to increase this year’s aid budget to 0.37 per cent of national income. But Mr Costello said closer analysis of the Budget details also revealed ...

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• Government’s aid decision yet another broken promise

  Monday, 13 May 2013

  International aid agency World Vision Australia has welcomed the Government’s increase to this year’s aid budget under difficult conditions, but is disappointed by yet another delay to reach the long-held promise of 0.5 per cent of national income.

  “Australia’s aid program offers the greatest human benefit per dollar spent of any government expenditure so it’s greatly disappointing to discover this ...

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• World Vision distribution starts after China quake

  Monday, 22 April 2013

  Humanitarian agency World Vision will today start distributing goods to people left homeless by the weekend’s devastating 6.6-magnitude earthquake in China.

  Local authorities and the United Nations are reporting more than 200 dead, 11,500 injured, 245,000 evacuated and about 1.52 million people affected after the earthquake hit Sichuan province.

  World Vision will distribute emergency hygiene kits to an expected 4,000 ...

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• World Vision welcomes Lancet’s child health series

  Friday, 12 April 2013

  World Vision welcomes a series of papers on childhood diarrhoea and pneumonia published today in esteemed medical journal The Lancet.

  These diseases are the leading cause of death for children under five in the developing world, together accounting for two million child deaths each year, and The Lancet highlights ways of tackling these potentially fatal illnesses.

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• Cadbury falls behind on addressing forced, child and trafficked labour

  Wednesday, 27 March 2013

  This Easter it’s time for Cadbury to hop to it and publish a timetabled commitment for moving entirely to ethical cocoa in its chocolate products, says international charity World Vision.

  Cadbury is the last major chocolate company to have not set a date by which its entire chocolate range will be made from ethical cocoa.

  World Vision campaign leader on ...

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• Syrian fighting enters third year, refugee numbers soar

  Thursday, 14 March 2013

  As the world marks two years since violence started in Syria, more than 1.1 million people have fled the fighting for neighbouring countries.

  Syria’s conflict has forced more than one million people – half of them children – over borders into Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and Iraq in search of safety, while another two million people have been left internally displaced. ...

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• World Vision welcomes PM’s anti-slavery commitment

  Friday, 8 March 2013

  After years of lobbying the government to change the Commonwealth procurement laws to eradicate modern slavery from the supply chain, World Vision today welcomes the Prime Minister's commitment to that process.

  World Vision Australia's adviser on trafficking-in-persons Melissa Stewart said the Commonwealth was the biggest purchaser of goods and services in Australia and could use its economic power to eliminate ...

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• Time to empower Pacific women is now

  Thursday, 7 March 2013

  On the eve of International Women’s Day, World Vision Australia has called on the Australian Government to detail how it plans to spend $320 million earmarked for empowering women across the Pacific region.

  As Australia’s Minister for the Status of Women Julie Collins visited the United Nations to reiterate the Government’s commitment to international efforts to empower women and girls, ...

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• Child brides unintended victims of conflict, says study

  Wednesday, 6 March 2013

  • More than 13.5 million girls are married under the age of 18 around the world, every year
  • Fear pushes parents to marry off their daughters in areas of conflict or disaster, says new World Vision report
  • On the eve of International Women’s Day, aid agency says governments must acknowledge the impact conflict and disasters have on girls

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