CARITAS Statement on the 2026 International Women’s Day

CARITAS Statement on the 2026 International Women’s Day

For All Women and Girls: dignity, justice, action

On this International Women’s Day, we join the global call for advancing equality, protecting human dignity, and ensuring safety and justice for all women and girls — not as ideals, but as lived realities.

Download the entire CARITAS Statement on the 2026 International Women’s Day here: https://caritaszambia.org/phocadownload/general/CARITAS-International-2026-IWD-Statement.pdf

About Caritas Zambia

Caritas Zambia is a Catholic Organisation that is an integral structure of the Zambia Conference of Catholic Bishops (ZCCB). The Conference of Bishops is a permanent grouping of Bishops of a given nation or territory that jointly exercises certain pastoral functions on behalf of the Christian faithful of their territory. This is done for the sake of effective evangelisation. To promote the principle of the common good which the Church offers humankind, especially through forms and programmes of the apostolate which are fittingly adapted to the circumstances of the time and place, is the role of Bishops.