SDG of the month | March 2022
Dovetailing well with International Women's Day and the session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women in March, our SDG of the month is Gender Equality!
Gender Equality is essential to our collective peace and sustainability. Female perspectives and solutions on climate action, peacebuilding and socio-economic development have proved valuable and achieving SDG 5 help ensure a safer, greener, and more equitable future. However, the challenges to SDG 5 remain. The COVID-19 pandemic has rolled back hard-fought gains in gender equality and increased the economic and security gap between men and women. Females are also more vulnerable to the social, labour and security shocks from climate change
We can all play a role in working toward SDG 5.
- Men and Women should call out injustices and misogyny in their communities.
- We should all strive to amplify female voices in structures of power and influence.
Let us heed the call of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres when he says, “a sustainable and equal recovery for all is only possible if it is a feminist recovery–one that puts girls and women at its core”.
Read more about our goal of the month here - https://mailchi.mp/un/sdg-gotm-mar-2022?e=8f6c079bf0
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