Media Releases

251 - 260 of 693 results

Monsoon Landslides Wreak Havoc for Cox's Bazar Refugees

Wednesday, June 13, 2018

The catastrophe World Vision and other aid agencies have long warned about is unfolding in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, as heavy rains lash the world’s largest, most densely populated refugee camp.

Media Releases, Asia and the Pacific, Humanitarian, Myanmar, Refugee Camp, Refugee Crisis, Refugees, Typhoon

Australian NGOs to Review Sexual Misconduct Safeguards

Friday, May 25, 2018

World Vision Australia welcomes the independent review aimed at improving the Australian humanitarian sector's processes in the prevention of sexual misconduct.

Media Releases, Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and Carribean, Middle East, Eastern Europe & Central Asia, Children's Rights, Claire Rogers, Human Rights, Humanitarian, NGO, Women's Rights, World Vision, Young People

Ugly new funding cuts dig Australia deeper into aid shame

Tuesday, May 8, 2018

The Government has taken a big slice from an already depleted aid budget, continuing Australia’s darkest era of aid cuts and further letting down the world’s most vulnerable.

Media Releases, Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and Carribean, Middle East, Eastern Europe & Central Asia

Australian Government partnership with World Vision to help 2000 small businesses overcome the "missing middle"

Wednesday, May 2, 2018

A new World Vision program which will bridge the loan gap for struggling strong-potential businesses in Myanmar and Ghana has received an Australian Government grant of $4 million over three years.

Media Releases, Asia and the Pacific, Australian Government, Claire Rogers, Gender Equality, Women's Rights

Syria conference must ‘offer children a better future’

Monday, April 23, 2018

In a year shaping up to the be one of the worst in the seven-year Syria crisis, governments and leaders must recommit to a better future for the country’s children.

Media Releases, Middle East, Eastern Europe & Central Asia

World Vision responds to children and their families in need in Eastern Ghouta

Friday, April 20, 2018

"As we enter the 8th year of this ruinous war in Syria, it is harrowing to hear of the alleged attacks in Douma,” says Syria Response Director, Wynn Flaten.

Media Releases, Middle East, Eastern Europe & Central Asia

Australia sinks to 19th in global aid ranking

Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Australia’s leading humanitarian agency, World Vision is calling on the Australian Government to boost aid, after Australia’s global aid ranking fell for the third consecutive year to 19th.

Media Releases, Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Middle East, Eastern Europe & Central Asia

Congo crisis: time for Australia to act

Monday, April 9, 2018

Five leading Australian humanitarian agencies are warning that an urgent funding boost is needed to avert a dire outcome for 13 million people who need humanitarian assistance in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Media Releases, Africa

Call for Government to rule out further aid cuts

Thursday, March 29, 2018

World Vision Australia is calling on the Federal Government to rule out further cuts to an already depleted aid budget.

Media Releases, Asia and the Pacific, Claire Rogers, Foreign Aid, Humanitarian, International Development, NGO, Refugees, Tim Costello, World Vision

Tim Costello calls for end to offshore detention

Friday, March 23, 2018

Chief Advocate of World Vision Australia, Rev Tim Costello, today challenged the “moral equation” of the Federal Government’s indefinite detention policy as a deterrence to other refugees seeking asylum in Australia.

Media Releases

Media Releases