Aid & Security

For the past 30 years women’s organisations have engaged with government and international policymaking institutions to secure consensus on global agreements that lay out concrete areas of action to achieve gender equality and women’s empowerment. The agreements are vast and visionary. From the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) adopted in 1979 and now ratifi ed by 185 countries, to the Beijing Platform for Action formulated at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995, to Security Council Resolution (SCR) 1325 passed in 2000 and SCR 1820 adopted in June 2008, there is no shortage of globally-agreed commitments to advance gender equality as part of inter-linked efforts to achieve development, security and human rights (see Figure 6.1).

Sustainable Development Goals:

Gender Equality