We've come a long way...
women
The next generation of entrepreneurs
These are Niger’s future entrepreneurs, teachers, and doctors. Those who will build the country and dream up new ideas. Those who will work for equal rights and opportunities for all.
The group meets every week after school. They get together to save money and have created their own little bank. Everyone saves what they can, and those who need it can borrow money to test out their own business ideas.
150 million more women than men were hungry in 2021 – CARE analysis finds
An analysis by humanitarian organization CARE highlights, for the first time, a global link between gender inequality and food insecurity. Analyzing data from 2021, the report shows that across 109 countries, as gender inequality goes up, food security goes down.
How to fix the sexist future of work
The future of work is profoundly sexist. COVID-19 accelerated the “work of the future” with remote work, more digital opportunities, and the fourth industrial revolution. At the same time, it both laid bare existing inequalities AND accelerated those inequalities. The first three industrial revolutions opened up rights and equality. The fourth one threatens to roll them all back.
World Refugee Day 2022: Shockingly low levels of humanitarian aid funding for displaced people around the world
Refugee and displacement crises across Venezuela and neighboring countries, the Central Sahel, Syria, South Sudan, and Democratic Republic of Congo receive shockingly low support from the international community in the first 6 months of 2022. CARE calls on donor states not to forget these displacement crises and to increase financial aid immediately.
The Power of Women’s Leadership in Humanitarian Crises: Marking World Refugee Day
For the first time in history, the number of displaced people worldwide has surpassed 100 million people, according to recent data from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
Jordan: The answer is called Ra’eda
Ra’eda Abu Halawa works as a plumber, installing water tanks and repairing and installing pipes in bathrooms and kitchens. This is unusual in Jordan because women plumbers are very rare in the country, but that doesn’t bother Ra-eda.
What women on the frontlines have taught us about pandemic preparedness
The evidence shows that we must invest in gender equality in health systems to prepare for and respond to the next pandemic. The glimmers of success in COVID-19 built on previous investments in women health workers, their skills, and equality in health systems.
PHOTO ESSAY: A look back at the Sustainable Food Production Project (PROSAM) in Cuba over the last 7 years
Launched in 2015 in Cuba and funded by Global Affairs Canada (GAC), the goal of the PROSAM project was to improve the diversity and quantity of food available in local markets, strengthen the capacities of municipalities to manage food production plans and support local producers, and ensure that women are involved in agricultural production in their communities.