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Gender Equality

Gender Equality

Somalia: Early Marriages, FGM and Closure of Businesses Threaten Girls and Women as Drought Worsens

March 28, 2022

Indicators point to the erosion of gains made for girls' and women's rights in Somalia as the drought worsens. Girls are being forced to drop out of school putting them at risk of harmful traditional practices such as early marriage and Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). Women-run businesses have been hit especially hard with 98% of them having lost revenue and income due to the high cost of goods, and 51% have been forced to close.  

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Gender Equality

SOPHIA BUSH, LAURA DERN, AND SANIYYA SIDNEY CELEBRATE #HERVOICE WITH CARE ON INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY

March 8, 2022

Campaign honors the voices of leading women, including Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg; Vice President Kamala Harris; Gloria Steinem; Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex, and more, who have paved the way and inspired young girls everywhere. CARE and the Girls Opportunity Alliance (a program of the Obama Foundation) are also launching a new 3-year partnership to empower adolescent girls around the world through education.

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Gender Equality

Cash Assistance Helps LGBTQIA+ Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence

February 16, 2022

Fleeing rampant crime and political violence, a collapsing economy, and severe shortages of food and medicines, some 1.5 million Venezuelans have arrived in Ecuador since 2016. Among them are LGBTQIA+ individuals, who face many risks, including intimate partner violence (IPV). An analysis carried out by CARE with 782 migrants and refugees in Ecuador in 2019 found that 50 percent of those who experienced discrimination and xenophobia, which is associated with increased exposure to gender-based violence (GBV), were LGBTQIA+ individuals.

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Gender Equality

CARE Commits to Funding Center for Gender Equity as Part of Vice President Kamala Harris’ ‘Call to Action’ for Central America

December 13, 2021

South Sudan is currently struggling with flood, the intensity of which has not been seen in decades. Entire States have been affected with communities living submerged since the start of the year. Many people in remote areas remain cut off from humanitarian aid, worsening an already critical humanitarian crisis in the country and disrupting humanitarian access to those most in need.

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