Gender equality is a right. Realizing this right is the best opportunity to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time, from the economic crisis and lack of healthcare to climate change, violence against women, and escalating conflict.
Women are not only more severely affected by these problems, but they also have the ideas and leadership skills to solve them. Gender discrimination, which continues to hinder women, is also a hindrance to our world.
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted by world leaders in 2015, propose a roadmap for achieving sustainable progress that leaves no one behind.
Achieving gender equality and women's empowerment is an integral part of each of the 17 SDGs. Ensuring respect for the rights of women and girls through all of these goals is the only way to achieve justice, achieve inclusion, build economies that benefit all, and protect our environment, now and for generations to come.
We encourage you to learn more about this topic at this link: http://www.unwomen.org/es/news/in-focus/women-and-the-sdgs
