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World Vision delegate at Sexual Violence Summit: "Enough talking - time to act"

Now that the voices of victims’ of war-time rape have been heard loud and clear during the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence, the world has a duty to act.
been heard loud and clear during the Global Summit to End Sexual … like Angela were the most powerful at the Summit.

Angela's Story: "Enough is enough."

At this week’s Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict we’ll be promoting the voice of one survivor whose road to London is one of both heartbreaking pain and heart-warming recovery.
Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict we’ll be … she made a daring escape in 2002. The summit Fast forward to 2014 and Angela is in … today in many countries. I will tell the summit that enough is

Survivor of wartime sexual violence to address major summit in London

A former Ugandan schoolgirl abducted from her classroom and subjected to years of sexual violence by the Lords’ Resistance Army is to urge world governments to step up their efforts to stamp out rape as a weapon of war.
from 140 countries attending the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict in London … today in many countries. I will tell the summit that enough is enough and ask it to

Time To Act: Ending Sexual Violence In Conflict

On the eve of the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict, our senior child rights policy advisor, Erica, shares her personal experiences that highlight just how important the summit is for everyone involved.
On the eve of the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in … that highlight just how important the summit is for everyone involved. By Erica … this summit and its outcomes are so

I was a World Vision Sponsored Child

We met Abu a couple of weeks ago at the World Vision ambassador training. He was one of the people who decided to give up his time to talk to his local community about the work of World Vision. As soon as he stood up and started speaking, we knew he had an amazing story to tell. Abu’s journey with World Vision truly inspired us and we would like to share his story with you too:
to represent my country in a global summit and annual conference in London. I could not

Our message has been heard, now it's time to do the work

Our colleague from the DRC, Aimee Manimani, shares what your support and the IF campaign has achieved and why the race to end hunger isn’t over yet.
who were participating in talks at the G8 summit in Northern Ireland. They need to address … what they started at the Northern Ireland summit to really make a difference. We want

Basic nutrition efforts risk being ‘sidelined’ in war-torn countries

Major progress in tackling child malnutrition in some of the world’s toughest countries could be thrown into jeopardy because military and security funding is taking precedence over basic child nutrition, the IF Coalition warns today.
prepare to gather in London for the Hunger Summit on

IF campaign hails ‘major breakthrough’ in fight against malnutrition

Tens of thousands of people gathered in Hyde Park for Saturday's Big IF London rally.
summit held a few miles away in the … hosted by Prime Minister David Cameron. The summit resulted in a … over the next eight years. As the summit took

Small scale, big impact: unlock the potential of smallholders and we can achieve Zero Hunger

The single most important thing governments can do to end global hunger is to support the millions of poor women farming tiny plots of land in developing countries, a new report by a group of international charities says today.
Summit’ alongside the G8 … Summit’ to invest in the productivity of

G8 Ministers must tackle sexual violence against children in war

Foreign ministers from the G8 countries are being urged to address the ‘forgotten’ child victims of rape and sexual violence in conflict, as they gather for a summit in London today.
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the IF campaign in the run up to the G8 summit in June

Failure to tackle malnutrition puts millions of children at risk

World Vision and Save the Children are calling for political promises to be urgently translated into action to avert the deaths of millions of undernourished children, 2.3 million of whom died in 2011 alone.
in New York for the UN General Assembly summit to take urgent measures to tackle child … malnutrition at the G8 and the London Hunger Summit. The 36 countries in this report are capable

Duchess to meet campaigner tackling domestic violence in Solomon Islands

Women in the Solomon Islands suffer some of the highest rates of domestic violence in the world. Two out of three women aged 15-49 who have ever been in a relationship, reporting experiencing physical and/or sexual violence by an intimate partner. That is 64 per cent.