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Juliet Grace Luwedde From Uganda: 'Let No One Tell You That You Can't Do It'
This Earth Day, and to coincide with the Leaders’ Summit on Climate, we look to five young female climate leaders who are on the frontlines of climate impacts.
Read moreDircia Sarmento Belo From Timor-Leste: 'We Must Believe In Ourselves'
This Earth Day, and to coincide with the Leaders’ Summit on Climate, we look to five young female climate leaders who are on the frontlines of climate impacts.
Read more3 Reasons Why Women Health Workers are Key to COVID-19 Vaccine Access
A new CARE report details the role women frontline health workers play in vaccine delivery and why we must invest in fair pay and decent working conditions.
Read moreSyria’s Women Yearn for A World with Equality
Stories of Abeer, Farah, Maya, Nour, and Najah in Syria
Read moreStop Telling Half the Story!
Demand more women in power. Our world is in crisis – let’s not leave 50% of the population out of decision-making.
Read moreCARE fights against the Period Taboo around the world!
For millions of women and girls, having their period is more like a fight for their dignity than a natural cycle. Dropping out of school, health risks, social exclusion, they suffer the consequences of a taboo that must be broken. In 90 countries around the world, CARE acts on a ...
Read moreThe Period Taboo: A Universal Problem
The period taboo is one of the sexist stereotypes that affect almost all girls and women around the world. Here is a little tour of the world explaining the daily and concrete impacts of this universal taboo. And what you can do to fight this injustice!
Read moreEncouraging girls to dream big
Gajadharpur is a quiet village tucked between densely populated Baharaich city and busy town of Kaiserganj. The village home to about 3,000 people. 13-year-old Ranjani Gupta is one of them.
Read moreBeirut Blast: 6 months on and still burying the dead
“With the money I received, I bought a tomb in the cemetery for my son. I had never thought of it before. I did not know also that it costs 5,000 US dollars!” says 65-year-old Hayat Abou Chakra showing a picture of the marble tombstone she had made for her ...
Read moreIraq: Back to the roots
More than six years ago, hundreds of thousands of people fled from the Sinjar mountains when armed groups attacked the region. At the peak of the crisis, more than 6 million people were living in camps and host communities across Northern Iraq. Four years after military operations ended, many families ...
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