Unlocking the Power of Women: CARE

Visit http://www.care.org/ to find out how you can fight global poverty by empowering women and girls and promoting gender equality.

Women and girls are the most impoverished, most discriminated-against group on earth. Of the 1.3 billion people living in absolute poverty worldwide, 70% are women and girls. Women work two-thirds of the world's working hours, but earn only 10 percent of its income. They produce half the world's food, but own only 1% of its land. And when it comes to literacy, two-thirds of the world's 900 illiterate adults are women. CARE is committed to Millennium Development Goal #3 because empowering women and creating gender equality is the way to bring about lasting change against global poverty. Every single Millennium Development goal is directly related to women's rights. Until the world gets this right, none of the other goals can be met.

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[mathewskarl]

I'd be interested in seeing where they gathered their statistics from - the ones they cite in this video seem more like shock politics than reality.

[Monjinou]

This is a powerful video driving home the salient points of inequality on every level for women and children. How can we as a race of humans be all we can be when we are dragging women, children or men behind us in chains of inequality. What is keeping us from accomplishing this worthy goal? We certainly do not lack the resources, technology, manpower or the goodness to do so. Monjinou -The Naked Truth

[brekgar89]

just a UN front

[drmimi94954]

The video speaks a powerful truth. I am committed to use my voice to take action for promoting gender equality

[jjsimpalm20]

this is a song for women and it supports you guys.. tell me what you think.... type in Fe'La iniko.... (I Am A WOman)

[solidaridadglobal]

These are pretty standard statistics. They probably get them from research conducted by different UN bodies, IFIs, universities, and research institutes, etc. It can be shocking if it's your first time seeing these stats, but that's the reality. Nonetheless, all videos that include stats could benefit by including their sources to allow follow-up.

[happygregory1989]

I found a video which is about women making great strides towards equality in places like Iran, Somalia and Saudi Arabia.

Here it is:

/watch?v=OwvRlXa5Prs

[xingwei12]

Love it . Great video . Love and light all ways

[Calinn86]

written in the declaration of human rights or acknowledged by humanity in general as basic human rights, cause, as i said before, history proved that only those who struggled to get their rights respected had their rights respected. in fact, there are women who reached positions of power (angela merkel, condoleeza rice etc.) they are the perfect example that opportunities are given to women these days, but only few of them are capable enough or ambitious enough. so where's the problem in the end

[Calinn86]

rights?? what in the world makes you believe that the powerful will ever in the future give those rights and respect that equality and offer women or other defavoured people a part of their power? you are the one who's delusional if you think that, not me, because i have history to prove that such a thing never happened and since history is known to repeat itself, it won't ever happen. i'm saying that people should do something if they want something, not just demand it because it's ..

[Calinn86]

sorry my friend, but i'm speaking about how power is earned and rights are made respected in the real world, while you people around here do not seem to have a clue in what world you're living. if you were only a little cold blooded and objective, you would see that the only way to make yourself respected, to make your rights respected, to be given equal chances is to first prove yourself to the ones that have all those. do you think that men of power give a shit about people's ...