Gender equality

Gender equality

Around 70 per cent of the 1.3 billion people who live in extreme poverty are women and girls. Issues of hunger, climate change and violence tend to hit girls and women harder in the poor countries. Therefore, DanChurchAid works with cross-cutting objectives to promote gender equality.

The right and opportunity to take part in the conduct of political processes at all levels in society is a universal human right. Gender equality is understood as women and men having the same entitlements to all aspects of human development; economic, social, cultural, civil, and political rights. Read more about Human rights and women at UN's development fund for Women website

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Promoting women empowerment

Commitment to rights and gender equality permeate all areas of DanChurchAid's development and relief work.

DanChurchAid is concerned about gender inequality because the majority of the world's poor are women. There is hardly any developing country where women have equal status to men with respect to legal, social and economic rights. Women often do not have rights over their husbands property, the illiteracy percentages for poo women are almost double the percentage of illiterate men, many are not allowed to participate in business, travel or speak in public.

When we start a project in one of our focus country, we always consider the gender angle.

Read more on our gender equality commitment and download our policy here.

Articles about gender equality