SDG 5: Gender Equality
Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
While some forms of discrimination against women and girls are diminishing, gender inequality continues to hold women back and deprives them of basic rights and opportunities. Empowering women requires addressing structural issues such as unfair social norms and attitudes as well as developing progressive legal frameworks that promote equality between women and men.
See more information about this SDG at https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdg5
Our projects on SDG 5
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The role of health care providers in expanding the legal grounds for safe abortion: insights from Argentina, Ireland and South Korea
Abortion laws and regulations are key in creating an enabling environment that facilitates the advancement of people’s sexual and reproductive health and rights and well-being. Notwithstanding the recent retrogressions on abortion laws in various parts of the world, legal frameworks regulating access to safe abortion have been progressively liberalised around the world over the last century. While healthcare providers have been recognised as key health advocates, their specific role in influencing abortion law reforms has been scarcely studied in academic literature.
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Inclusive Conservation and Livelihoods in Tropical Forests: Exploring Gender Transformative Approaches
KIT Royal Tropical Institute and Farm Africa are conducting a participatory action research study on forest conservation, livelihoods, and gender in the Bale Ecoregion in Ethiopia. The study will guide and support women in communities around the Harenna forest in the pursuit of alternative income-generating activities that empower them, improve their wellbeing, and that contribute to forest conservation.
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Break Free ! Les jeunes défendent leur santé et leurs droits sexuels et reproductifs
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Demand-side research on migrant remittances
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Break Free! – Young people advocate for their sexual and reproductive health and rights
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Applying a Gender Lens to Cocoa Cooperatives in Côte d’Ivoire
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YW4A: Young Women for Awareness, Agency, Advocacy, and Accountability
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