At CARE we seek a world of hope, tolerance and social justice, where poverty has been overcome and all people live in dignity and security; we do this through a gender approach, putting women and girls at the center.

We constantly seek information from formal institutions on data on women and girls, build alliances with data generators and academia, and prepare local diagnoses on the situation of women and girls. This has shown that in Guatemala, women and girls are exposed to different manifestations of gender violence such as sexual harassment, sexual violence, underage pregnancies, human trafficking, violence in the family context and in the context of human mobility, violence related to land ownership, as well as violence against women human rights defenders and violation of sexual and reproductive rights. There are also other violations that women have to face, such as the dissatisfaction of their economic rights, informal work, the precariousness of their labor rights, low participation in politics, and the document of their leadership and self-esteem.