Sustainable Development Goals
A major part of the Secretary-General’s leadership platform in 2021 was his publication of Our Common Agenda, an “agenda of action designed to accelerate the implementation of existing agreements, including the Sustainable Development Goals.” In support of “[placing] women and girls at the center,”
Transformative Measures
One of the report’s priority areas, the Secretary-General committed to five “transformative measures.”
These include:
1. The full realization of equal rights, including through the repeal of gender-discriminatory laws;
2. Promoting gender parity, including through quotas and special measures;
3. Women’s economic inclusion, including through investment in the care economy, equal pay, and support for women entrepreneurs;
4. Inclusion of younger women; and
5. An emergency response plan to end violence against women and girls and other harmful social norms.
The Feminist U.N. Campaign defines a feminist leadership agenda as a full-fledged women’s rights agenda based on U.N. policies of human rights, equality, fairness, and nondiscrimination.
SDG 5 which is Gender equality addresses many issues of particular importance to feminist movements, including ending violence against women and girls, recognizing and valuing unpaid care and domestic work, seeking to advance women’s equal participation and leadership, and ensuring access to reproductive rights (though carefully excluding sexual rights).
Moreover, gender is mainstreamed throughout all the goals bringing into view crucial issues such as the need to give women equal access to economic resources including control over land and other property.
Generation Equality is an international platform that seeks to accelerate the implementation of gender equality commitments in the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action of 1995 to achieve transformative change. Generation Equality Forum (GEF) is convened by UN Women and co-hosted by the governments of Mexico and France. As part of the GEF process, Kenya is co-leading the Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Action Coalition, one of the GEF’s six Action Coalitions (ACs). The other Actions Coalitions include:
- Economic justice and rights,
- Bodily autonomy and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR),
- Feminist action for climate justice,
- Technology and innovation for gender equality, and
- Feminist movements and leadership.
Our Common Agenda
“agenda of action designed to accelerate the implementation of existing agreements, including the Sustainable Development Goals.”
