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“To achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, gender equality is both a goal and a condition of success. Still, none of the G20 nations in the Global South or in the Global North, are on track to achieve equality by 2030”, writes SEI Research Associate Laura Del Duca in the Quint.
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Gender equality is a condition for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. But they will remain out of reach when countries are too scared to legalise people of all genders when religious dogma does not permit everyone to live freely.
Laura Del Duca, SEI Research Associate
‘Leave no one behind’ is the central, transformative promise of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – but the current reality is that we are leaving too many behind to be heard at all.
In fact, the G20 is unable to achieve any SDGs when all G20 countries, aside from Mexico and South Africa, have at least one law that treats men and women differently. Gender inequality exists in every country, taking different forms depending on its cultural context.
We call on G20 countries to push uncomfortable boundaries and make progress on eradicating gender-based violence and legalising all forms of gender identity, expression, and sexual orientation.
Laura Del Duca
SEI’s international team of science-to-policy researchers presented five pathways for the G20 to address underlying systemic and deeply embedded drivers of gender inequality.
The author call for four actions, across countries and scales, to push these ‘uncomfortable boundaries’ depending on the country’s context.
Read the full op-ed and the four actions, originally published by The Quint.
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