Women and girls Archives - CARE Australia

One year after Nepal earthquakes: Thousands of survivors still lack basic necessities

A year on from the devastating earthquakes in Nepal, aid agency CARE Australia is calling for reconstruction efforts to be accelerated. The magnitude-7.8 earthquake, which struck on 25 April 2015, and a further massive quake on 12 May killed nearly 9,000 people and injured more than 22,000 others. CARE’s Country Director in Nepal, Lora Wuennenberg, […]

Yemen is the crisis that the world forgot

Originally published in the Herald Sun and Herald Sun online. Small talk can be difficult with someone who lives in Yemen. Questions about family often turn to dead relatives. Talk about a bad night’s sleep and you might find yourself in a conversation about nightly bombing raids. Such was the case recently in Jordan, when I […]

Gail Kelly: Empowering women gives society hope for the future

Cultural barriers that prevent girls from reaching their potential must be removed, writes CARE Australia’s women’s empowerment ambassador Gail Kelly.

Out of school and into marriage: 39,000 girls forced to marry every day

Girls in 26 countries are more likely to be forced into marriage than to enroll in secondary school, research from CARE has found. The report, Vows of Poverty, has been released to mark the International Day of the Girl on 11 October and provides a snapshot of the forces that drive girls into marriage and […]

Yemen: A political solution must be reached to prevent humanitarian catastrophe

Following the declaration of the end of airstrikes in Yemen, international aid organisation CARE says humanitarian access must urgently improve and a political solution be reached, as the impoverished nation is facing a humanitarian catastrophe. Since airstrikes began on 26 March, the conflict in the Middle-Eastern nation has spread across the majority of the country, […]