We are supporting CARE International, in Support of Gender Equality

Gender equality is CARE’s central organising principle. We cannot achieve women’s economic justice, climate justice, health equity, the right to food, water, and nutrition, or equal access to humanitarian assistance without addressing gender inequality.

Gender remains one of the most fundamental sources of inequality in the world today. Across nearly every country, women earn a fraction of men’s incomes, and trans/non-binary people are disproportionately impacted by poverty and denial of fundamental rights.

Globally, around one in three women has experienced physical and/or sexual violence, most often at the hands of an intimate partner. Gender-based discrimination fuels food insecurity, safety risks, and exclusion from life-saving services and opportunities. More than 60% of the world’s hungry are women and girls, but women and girls disproportionately bear the burden of meeting their families’ food and care needs.