Press releases

• Kenya to be first country to sign new charter to end extreme hunger

  Saturday, 24 September 2011

  Kenya will be the first country to sign a ground-breaking charter that would make deadly food crises like the one gripping East Africa a thing of the past.
  
  The document, A Charter to End Extreme Hunger will be launched today as heads of state and other delegates at the United Nations General Assembly in New York focus on the East ...

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• Art festival keeps East Africa in the picture

  Friday, 23 September 2011

  Tonight’s launch party of the Art and About Festival will not only mark the opening of the Festival but will also remind Sydneysiders of the plight of millions of people in East Africa.

  Lord Mayor, Clover Moore, has invited World Vision to collect money at the event taking place in Martin Place tonight.

  All money raised will go to World ...

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• Put people before politics to save lives in Somalia, urge agencies

  Thursday, 22 September 2011

  Lives must be put before politics in famine-affected Somalia, a group of 20 aid agencies said today in an open letter.
  
  The agencies, all of whom have worked in Somalia, said while aid is getting through, there was simply not enough aid to address the enormity of the crisis, and hundreds of thousands of lives hang in the balance.
  
  With ...

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• 10 years on, chocolate companies break promise to stop child labour in the cocoa industry

  Monday, 19 September 2011

  Big chocolate companies have failed to eliminate the worst forms of child labour in the cocoa fields of West Africa despite promising to do so 10 years ago today.
  
  In September 2001, global chocolate companies, the United States and the Ivory Coast signed the Harkin-Engel Protocol that set out an action plan to eradicate the worst forms of child labour ...

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• World Vision scales up relief efforts as severe floods hit Pakistan again

  Friday, 16 September 2011

  World Vision has scaled up its emergency relief efforts in response to widespread flooding that has affected some 5.3 million people in southern Pakistan.
  
  “Over the past 10 days relentless monsoonal rains have inundated many communities who were only just recovering from last year’s floods,” World Vision Australia CEO Tim Costello said.
  
  “The current crisis has already claimed the lives ...

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• New Ambassador role a win for women’s rights says World Vision

  Tuesday, 13 September 2011

  World Vision Australia today welcomed the Federal Government’s decision to elevate the importance of gender equality and the empowerment of women with the appointment of a Global Ambassador for Women and Girls.
  
  “Poverty, violence and inequality are just some of the many challenges women and girls face every day in poor countries,” said World Vision’s Head of International Programs Kerin ...

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• Aid group welcomes new government funding for women and education in the Pacific

  Thursday, 8 September 2011

  World Vision Australia today welcomed the Federal Government’s announcement of additional funding to improve education and the treatment of women in the Pacific.
  
  At this week’s Pacific Islands Forum in New Zealand the government pledged an additional $124.5 million in funding to education in the Pacific over the next four years, and extra funding to improve services for women who ...

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• Build a better South Sudan right from the start: Aid agencies

  Wednesday, 7 September 2011

  Oxfam Australia and World Vision Australia today urged the Federal Government to support the recommendations of a new joint-agency report on South Sudan, to ensure the people of the world’s newest nation have a hopeful future.
  
  The report, called Getting it Right from the Start: Priorities for Action in the New Republic of South Sudan, identifies priority areas in South ...

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