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"Gender equality must be at the core of 'health for all" Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General.
'Unless every woman and girl has access to quality and affordable health care, unless women and girls can freely exercise their sexual and reproductive health rights, unless all women and girls are treated and respected as equals, we will not achieve our 2030 agenda for health and sustainable development,' Conference statement.
GENDER EQUALITY, the SDG 5, has been the topmost priority among the 17 Global Goals for 2030. As over 6,000 world leaders of 150 nations from various walks of life are joining the largest ever conference on gender equality to shape the future course of action on SDG 5, we bring you a platform for regular updates. Besides you are also welcome with your thoughts in the form of comments, content, pictures, videos or any other creative manner.
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Almost all women work but a few of them earn while fewer have sole control of their earnings. Besides, those married or cohabiting before the age of 18 years are facing the worst for they lose control on their reproductive rights as well which adversely affect their work, earning and sole control on the earnings. These finding of a study were presented on the concluding day of the Women Deliver 2019 - the largest ever conference on Gender Equality included as SDG 5 in the SDGs 2030; at Vancouver, Canada on June 6.
Also Read: Hurdles 4 SDG 5: Majority of women lack sole control of their earnings: Study
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In the concluding session of the Women Deliver 2019, the participants made commitments to use their power to achieve Gender Equality under a campaign 'How to use your power?. Here we bring you some of the innovative and creative commitments that reveal the dedication of the activists for Gender Equality, SDG 5 of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Kate Loose, Director @CapriaVC , Co-Founder @ThinkImpact
Roop Dhatt, Advocate for Gender Equality
Jessia Lomelin ,Head of Media and Communications for Equal Measures 2030
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Michelle Obama, the former first Lady of USA, ha said that the investment in girls is crucial and the only path to progress.
Her view were also echoed by the activists gathered at Women Deliver 2019 with a common goal to achieved SDG 5 by 2030.
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Automation is going to change the job pattern in the next decade for both men and women but women are likely to face maximum consequences of this transition. According to a study, the age of automation, and on the near horizon, artificial intelligence (AI) technologies offer new job opportunities and avenues for economic advancement, but women face new challenges overlaid on long-established ones. Between 40 million and 160 million women globally may need to transition between occupations by 2030, often into higher-skilled roles. To weather this disruption, women (and men) need to be skilled, mobile, and tech-savvy, but women face pervasive barriers on each and will need targeted support to move forward in the world of work.
A new McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) report, ‘The future of women at work: Transitions in the age of automation (PDF–2MB)’, finds that if women make these transitions, they could be on the path to more productive, better-paid work. If they cannot, they could face a growing wage gap or be left further behind when progress toward gender parity in work is already slow.
Automation to push 40-160 m women for occupational transition by 2030: Study https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/headlines/548690-automation-to-push-40-160-m-women-for-occupational-transition-by-2030-study
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Equal Measures 2030, a USA based SDG advocacy groups have claimed that none of the 129 countries evaluated and monitored by it is doing enough to achieve Gender Equality, Goal 5 of the Global Goals 2030. The report was released in the Women Deliver Conference 2019 in Canada, being hailed as the largest ever Gender Equality conference.
According to the Equal Measures 2030, the 2019 SDG Gender Index measures the state of gender equality aligned to 14 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 129 countries and 51 issues ranging from health, gender-based violence, climate change, decent work and others. “The 2019 SDG Gender Index provides a snapshot of where the world stands, right now, linked to the vision of gender equality set forth by the 2030 Agenda. The 2019 SDG Gender Index enables us to tell a story of global progress, as well as being a tool that gender advocates can use to frame their influencing on the gender equality elements of the SDGs,” it claims.
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Watch live: the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls presents its final report at a closing ceremony. https://t.co/CYI5ohyZT6 pic.twitter.com/L6ktQEFVgd
— CanadianPM (@CanadianPM) June 3, 2019
Today, we received the final report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.We will continue to act to address the systemic causes of violence against Indigenous women, girls, LGBTQ and two-spirit people to end this national tragedy. pic.twitter.com/0Hyev4BhaV
— Seamus O'Regan (@SeamusORegan) June 3, 2019
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The United Nations General Secretary António Guterres, in a dialogue with Katja Iversen, the President/ CEO of Women Deliver a few weeks before the Women Deliver 2019; emphasised the role of men and boys in achieving Gender Equality which is SDG 5 of the Global Goals 2030.
"The world needs more male champions for gender equality, and more leaders who are willing to use their positions to challenge the structures, beliefs, practices and institutions that sustain male privilege. I would especially like to see more men speaking up to change the narrative from one that sees gender equality as a women’s issue, into one that recognizes it as a human rights issue. We need to engage men and boys in promoting transformation at individual levels, in their relationships with partners, children and friends, as well as at structural and professional levels, for example in encouraging men to call out sexual harassment among their peers and to take on an equal share of unpaid care and domestic work at home. When men see other men modelling equality, it changes the culture," Antonio Guterres, UN General Secretary.
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Over 129 countries participating
14 out of 17 SDGs will be taken up
51 Gender Equality Issues
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Including Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of WHO, a team of 11 eminent experts is participating in Women Deliver 2019. They will share their views on SDG 5 Gender Equality with thousands of social activists, lawyers, academicians, and medical professionals.
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Hours before the start of the largest ever conference on gender equality – Women Deliver 2019, in Canada on Monday, a study on monitoring of SDG index has made startling revelations. The first index to measure progress on gender equality against a set of internationally defined and agreed targets, revealed that no country of the world in on track to achieve the targets by the year 2030.
“The index, launched on June 3, should serve as a wake up to the world,” said Melinda Gates co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. “Even the Nordic states, which score highly in the index, would need major policy interventions in their commitment to achieving 17 Global Goals signed by 193 countries of the world in 2015,” she added. The inaugural SDG Gender Index, developed by the Equal Measures 2030 partnership, found that 2.8 billion women and girls live in the State who need to do a lot on SDG 5 to achieve the target with a deadline in 2030.