GENDER EQUALITY
HUB

OUR
MISSION

The mission of the Gender Equality SDG Hub is to encourage open dialogue and action towards gender equality through youth-led initiatives that promote healthy relationships across genders and gender non-conforming individuals.

What we do

The Gender Equality SDG Hub focuses on women’s empowerment, mitigating gender-based violence, body positivity, healthy masculinity, promoting inclusivity across the entire gender spectrum, and more through various teen-led group projects.

PodcastOverHERD

This platform promotes awareness around gender equity, as teen changemakers, through genuine discussions on social issues. Stay tuned for our new Equality podcast launching soon!

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Hub VideoGender Equality

A video of the past hub’s work on fighting for gender equality.

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Leadership

Tanishka Tagare

Teen Ambassador

Yaren Kurt

Teen Ambassador

HOW TO
JOIN US

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Take Action

  • Globally, 750 million women and girls were married before the age of 18 and at least 200 million women and girls in 30 countries have undergone FGM.
  • The rates of girls between 15-19 who are subjected to FGM (female genital mutilation) in the 30 countries where the practice is concentrated have dropped from 1 in 2 girls in 2000 to 1 in 3 girls by 2017.
  • In 18 countries, husbands can legally prevent their wives from working; in 39 countries, daughters and sons do not have equal inheritance rights; and 49 countries lack laws protecting women from domestic violence.
  • One in five women and girls, including 19 per cent of women and girls aged 15 to 49, have experienced physical and/or sexual violence by an intimate partner with the last 12 months. Yet, 49 countries have no laws that specifically protect women from such violence.

5.1 End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere

5.2 Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation

5.3 Eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation

5.4 Recognize and value unpaid care and domestic work through the provision of public services, infrastructure and social protection policies and the promotion of shared responsibility within the household and the family as nationally appropriate

5.5 Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decisionmaking in political, economic and public life

5.6 Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights as agreed in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences

5.A Undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, financial services, inheritance and natural resources, in accordance with national laws

5.B Enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology, to promote the empowerment of women

5.C Adopt and strengthen sound policies and enforceable legislation for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls at all levels