the 2030 agenda for sustainable development promises to make human rights real for everyone everywhere it has 17 goals and gender equality cuts across all of them at a time when we're facing conflict extremism and environmental degradation the SDGs focus on sustainability equality peace and progress their cities challenge deepening inequalities around the world by committing to leave no one behind the 2030 agenda is very clear there can be no sustainable development without gender equality in reality however gender inequalities are pervasive in every dimension of sustainable development globally women and girls are over-represented among the extreme poor
330 million women and girls live on less than a dollar 90 a day that's 4.4 million more than men in nearly two-thirds of countries women are more likely than men to report for insecurity despite recent progress access to quality education is still not universal globally 15 million girls will never get a chance to read or write compared to 10 million boys climate change has it a proportionate impact on women and children there are 14 times as likely as men to die during a disaster the majority of urban women are living in conditions where they lack
access to clean water improve sanitation facilities durable housing or sufficient living space in many areas the current rate of progress is too slow to achieve the SDGs by 2030 to turn promises into action we need to step it up now we need public action to tackle inequalities and discrimination we need to invest in policies and programs that work for women and girls we need more and better data to assess whether what we are doing for women and girls actually works and we need greater accountability at all levels for commitments made but not met let's turn
these promises into action and gender equality into a lived reality for all women and girls it's up to all of us to ensure the journey is successful [Music]
