"The 2030 agenda for sustainable development is being hailed as a landmark achievement for women’s rights and gender equality. But the adoption of the sustainable development goals
(SDGs) this weekend, featuring celebrity-studded side events and
thousands of observers, threatens to overshadow – and perhaps even
undermine – the 20th anniversary of a much more significant global
agenda for women’s rights: the Beijing declaration and platform for action.
...The objectives of Beijing were consistent with a recognition of the
deeply structural nature of the inequalities experienced by women. By
openly challenging austerity programmes and the impact of macroeconomic
policies on women, the platform acknowledged that the neoliberal, “trade not aid” model
of development was – and is – failing the majority of the world’s
women. Despite the intervening impact of two global financial crises, rocketing wealth inequality, growing fundamentalisms, and a steadily worsening climate crisis, the SDGs fail even to match the Beijing agreement’s level of ambition, let alone build on it to meet our current challenges."
The Guardian takes a look at how the Sustainable Development Goals--to be adopted this weekend in New York--measure up to previous global attempts to address a myriad of issues such as gender equality. Read more
here.
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