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Crisis Response

AlJazeera: Syria’s war transformed women’s roles through empowerment

March 11, 2021

When violence broke out in Syria in 2011, Ghasak al-Ali was a high school student. Now, at just 27, she is the breadwinner for 11 members of her family – something that would have been almost unthinkable before the war. A decade of conflict is evolving traditional values towards gender roles as death, injury, emigration and disappearance into President Bashar al-Assad’s notorious jails have deprived tens of thousands of families of their male earners.

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CARE Applauds Senator Cory Booker, Senator Patty Murray, and Senator Ron Wyden for Congressional Resolution Recognizing Disproportionate Impact of COVID on Women and Girls

March 3, 2021

March 2, 2021, Washington D.C. – Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), and Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) introduced a Congressional resolution, “Recognizing the Disproportionate Impact of COVID-19 on Women and Girls Globally,” bringing much needed attention to the unique threats the COVID-19 is posing to women’s economic, social and health security across the globe. CARE supports this effort to highlight the pandemic’s disproportionate impacts on women and girls, and thanks the senators for working towards a more equitable recovery.

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