![Benin_School students sitting at desks writing](/sites/default/files/styles/promo/public/2022-12/Benin_School%20students%20sitting%20at%20desks%20writing.jpg.webp?itok=gNPbCTak)
5 Min Inspiration: Cutting child marriage in half
"I can go to the Health Center to ask for services without someone's permission" – Female PROJEUNES Project Participant
"I can go to the Health Center to ask for services without someone's permission" – Female PROJEUNES Project Participant
Community members in Ethiopia are coming together to challenge existing social norms and traditions through discussions of topics such as early marriages, female genital mutilation, and division of domestic labor.
The combination of hunger, reduced incomes and the skyrocketing cost of living creates huge amounts of stress on households, which increases the risks of gender-based violence.
New research reveals the stark truth: women across the globe are bound by gender norms which are stunting their business success.
In parts of Ethiopia communities are making collective efforts at changing their attitutes about early child marriage and female genital mutilation.
Despite some positive steps having been made, progress during negotiations is continuing at a slow and disappointing pace.
Women and girls in the most vulnerable and marginalized communities bear the biggest brunt of climate change. CARE has listed demands to world leaders on COP27 to build a gender-just climate action.
By September of 2022, the global food crisis had gotten so extreme that 205.1 million people urgently needed humanitarian food assistance just to survive. Tragically, if we do nothing to invest in long-term food systems, the crisis could worsen fourfold in just 6 months.
Extreme practices to cope with the drought are pushing girls out of school and increasing the risks of gender based violence, early marriages and food insecurity
In FY2023, CARE worked around the world, contributing to saving lives, fighting poverty, and increasing social justice.