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A kit, a clinic, a chance: For survivors of sexual violence in DRC, safety depends on dwindling supplies
By Sarah Easter and Becca Mountain • December 2, 2025
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Funding cuts close the last door to healthcare in frontline Ukraine
By Sarah Easter and Becca Mountain • November 20, 2025
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Democratic Republic of Congo: Escalating conflict leaves already traumatized survivors in dire need
In the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, villages have been left empty, farms are overgrown, and shopping centers are desolate as conflict rages on. Since March 2022, more than 600,000 people have fled their homes and sought refuge in collective centers such as makeshift camps, school yards, and church grounds in Nyiragongo, Kanyabayonga, Sake, and Goma.
Read MoreWhat about Somalia?
For the past two years, I have seen communities across Somalia that have lost everything and do not know where the next meal will come from. My team and I have been raising the alarm for more than a year on the impending drought, always haunted by the 2011 famine in Somalia that led to the loss of a quarter of a million lives. When the crisis began, we were hopeful that the global community would
Read MoreSyria: The things they went back for
A mortar and pestle. A ring. A notebook. A colored pencil. A baseball. Coffee cups. Clothes their daughter would have worn, had she lived. The earthquakes hit Turkiye and Syria on February 6, and these are just a few of the things Ammar, Qasem, Amira, Shams, and Mohammed rescued from the rubble in the days afterward.
Read MoreMeet the woman helping light up Kenya’s Kakuma refugee camp
Lucy is one of the only women solar technicians in Kenya’s Kakuma Refugee Camp, which together with the nearby Kalobeyei settlement hosts 249,000 refugees from 24 nationalities. Like Lucy, some of these refugees have fled conflict, insecurity, disasters, or threats of persecution; others were born in the camp.
Read MoreCARE to Congress: Invest in Women and They Will Do the Rest
On International Women’s Day 2023, 40 CARE volunteer advocates from 17 U.S. states and four countries are meeting with senators and representatives to advocate for CARE’s priorities on behalf of women, girls, and other people in need around the world. The timing of their advocacy could not have been more perfect to bring the FY24 International Affairs Budget to the forefront of leaders’ minds.
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The remarkable life of Bushra Aldukhainah: A story from Northern Yemen
I was born and raised in highly conservative Northern Yemen, where a girl usually does not tread beyond primary school, where a girl must learn to prioritize household chores above everything, where a girl normally gets married at a very tender age, and where it is highly unlikely for a woman to chalk out a professional career.
Read MoreFrontline health workers care for all of us. How can we show our care for them?
The best way to celebrate International Women’s Day is to give women – especially women health workers – our support and recognition on this day, and every day throughout the year. In the words of Michelle Obama, “Communities, and countries, and ultimately the world are only as strong as the health of their women.”
Read MoreA woman with a wrench? ‘Why not?’ asks Ra’edah Abu Alhalaweh
Ra'edah Abu Alhalaweh is a 53-year-old, female plumber living in Zarqa, Jordan. Since many women in the Middle East cannot be alone with a male, non-family member, home repairs can be difficult. Being able to employ a female plumber solves this problem and employs women.
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