More than a month after the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and CARE have issued a joint alert over a national food crisis.'This is a hidden but pervasive crisis that has already touched all corners of the country,' said Dick Trenchard, assessments coordinator for FAO in Haiti. 'Rural areas experiencing the highest levels of displacement from Port-au-Prince and surrounding areas are the most affected, particularly the Artibonite in the west and Grand'Anse in the south.'

CARE was shocked and deeply saddened by the tragedy of the recent earthquake in Chile. The loss of life and intense emotional trauma suffered by those who survived the quake has aroused sympathy around the world.

Today, the poverty-fighting organization CARE announces its second annual International Women's Day event. On Thursday, March 4 at 7:30 p.m., CARE will bring the best-selling book ''Half the Sky'' to life onscreen for a special one-night-only event in movie theatres nationwide. Visit http://www.halftheskylive.com for more information and to purchase tickets today.

CARE today applauded the unanimous adoption of a new U.S.-sponsored UN Security Council resolution to fight sexual violence in armed conflict, and welcomed the presence of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the chair of the Council presidency for September.

For those receiving late-night calls from 402-982-0436 soliciting donations for CARE's work in Haiti, please know that these are not legitimate calls from CARE. This is not a phone number used by CARE, and we have launched an investigation to determine the origin of these calls.

CARE has increased its work to address ongoing food insecurity in Niger, focusing on the Diffa region in the eastern part of the country. According to the United Nations, a poor rainy season has created food shortages affecting nearly half of the population, or 7.5 million people.

Today, the poverty-fighting organization CARE announces its second annual International Women's Day event. On Thursday, March 4 at 7:30 p.m., CARE will bring the best-selling book ''Half the Sky'' to life onscreen for a special one-night-only event in movie theatres nationwide. Visit http://www.halftheskylive.com for more information and to purchase tickets today.

Today, the poverty-fighting organization CARE announces its second annual International Women's Day event. On Thursday, March 4 at 7:30 p.m., CARE will bring the best-selling book ''Half the Sky'' to life onscreen for a special one-night-only event in movie theatres nationwide. Visit http://www.halftheskylive.com for more information and to purchase tickets today.

Today, the poverty-fighting organization CARE announces its second annual International Women's Day event. On Thursday, March 4 at 7:30 p.m., CARE will bring the best-selling book ''Half the Sky'' to life onscreen for a special one-night-only event in movie theatres nationwide. Visit http://www.halftheskylive.com for more information and to purchase tickets today.

One month after the catastrophic quake that leveled most of Port-au-Prince, CARE and other aid agencies are in a race against time to get people waterproof shelter and decent sanitation before the rainy season hits at the end of March. Most people crammed into overcrowded temporary camps are huddled under bed sheets strung between poles or sticks - hardly enough to block out the sun, but useless against the torrential downpours of Haiti's rainy season.

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The Walmart Foundation and CARE launched today a women's empowerment program that will provide 2,500 female factory workers in Bangladesh's apparel sector with long-term, sustainable means of improving their standard of living and working environments through workplace skills and literacy training.

CARE commends U.S. Representatives Bill Delahunt (D-MA-10) and Ted Poe (R-TX-02) and U.S. Senators John Kerry (D-MA), Olympia Snowe (R-ME), Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Susan Collins (R-ME) who today introduced the International Violence Against Women Act (IVAWA) in Congress, a step forward in addressing violence against women and girls globally.

CARE is working to prevent sexual and gender-based violence in the aftermath of Haiti's devastating earthquake.

CARE strongly endorses the Obama administration's FY 2011 International Affairs budget request, which would increase investments in maternal and child health, food security, and climate change -- all while placing women and girls at the core of U.S. foreign assistance programs.

For the first time, CARE USA is partnering with CARE UK for the London to Paris Cycle Challenge.

As foreign ministers gather for a donor conference on aid for Haiti this Monday, CARE calls for balanced, long-term funding that will meet the country's emergency and rehabilitation needs and debt relief to ensure its recovery from the earthquake.

Number 10 Downing Street hosted a group of women leaders today working to build a global strategy for 2010 that will focus on reducing the number of women dying in childbirth around the world.

CARE continued delivering aid to Haiti's hardest hit earthquake survivors Wednesday, despite security challenges, broken infrastructure, logistical roadblocks and a severe aftershock that rocked Port-au-Prince in the early morning hours.

CARE's disaster-response teams find themselves in a race against time in earthquake-ravaged Haiti, coaching survivors how to purify contaminated water and preparing hygiene kits to help prevent a secondary crisis: the outbreak of disease.