Global Civil Society & the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

Gender Equality


Gender equality is not only a fundamental human right, but a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world. There has been progress over the last decades, but the world is not on track to achieve gender equality by 2030.

Women and girls represent half of the world’s population and therefore also half of its potential. But gender inequality persists everywhere and stagnates social progress.
On average, women in the labor market still earn 23 percent less than men globally and women spend about three times as many hours in unpaid domestic and care work as men.

Sexual violence and exploitation, the unequal division of unpaid care and domestic work, and discrimination in public office, all remain huge barriers. All these areas of inequality have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic: there has been a surge in reports of sexual violence, women have taken on more care work due to school closures, and 70% of health and social workers globally are women.

At the current rate, it will take an estimated 300 years to end child marriage, 286 years to close gaps in legal protection and remove discriminatory laws, 140 years for women to be represented equally in positions of power and leadership in the workplace, and 47 years to achieve equal representation in national parliaments.

Political leadership, investments and comprehensive policy reforms are needed to dismantle systemic barriers to achieving Goal 5 Gender equality is a cross-cutting objective and must be a key focus of national policies, budgets and institutions.

Name Acronym Founded City HQ Country/Territory HQ Type I Type II

Red de Trabajadoras Sexuales de América Latina y el Caribe

REDTRASEX 1997 Asunción Paraguay D

Red Interamericana de Vivienda Saludable

Red VIVSALUD 1995 Lima Peru F

Red Latinoamericana y Caribeña por la Defensa de los Derechos de los Niños, Niñas y Adolescentes

REDLAMYC 2000 Mexico City Mexico F

Rede Latino-Americana e Caribenha de Mulheres Negras

CRIOLA 1992 Rio de Janeiro Brazil G

REDRESS

1992 London UK G

Reebok Human Rights Foundation

Canton MA USA G f

Refugee Council

1951 London UK F y

Refugee Council of Australia

RCOA 1981 Glebe NSW Australia G

Refugee Empowerment International

REI 1979 Tokyo Japan G

ReGeneration 2030

Mariehamn Finland F

Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development

RCMRD 1975 Nairobi Kenya E g

Regional Centre for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in South-Eastern Europe under the auspices of UNESCO

Sofia Bulgaria E

Regional Centre on Small Arms and Light Weapons in the Great Lakes Region, the Horn of Africa and Bordering States

RECSA 2005 Nairobi Kenya E g

Regional Conference on Migration

RCM 1996 San José Costa Rica E g

Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

1977 Santiago Chile F cg

Regional Council on Human Rights in Asia

1982 Quezon City Philippines F v

Regional Model Forest Network - Asia

RMFN-Asia 2010 F

Regional Secretariat for Gender, Science and Technology in Southeast Asia and the Pacific

RESGEST Jakarta Indonesia K

Regions4 Sustainable Development

Regions4 2002 Brussels Belgium F

Regnskogfondet

1989 Oslo Norway G f

Relief International

1990 Los Angeles CA USA G

Religions for Peace

RfP 1970 New York NY USA F

Religious of Sion

1893 Paris France R

Religious Society of Friends

Quakers 1652 Philadelphia PA USA F

Rencontres philosophiques de l'UNESCO

Paris France S c

Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership

REEEP 2002 Vienna Austria F

Research Institute of Asian Women

RIAW 1960 Seoul Korea Rep N j

Réseau africain pour le soutien à l'entrepreneuriat féminin

RASEF 1994 Dakar Senegal F

Réseau des compétences électorales francophones

RECEF 2011 Québec QC Canada F

Réseau des Femmes Africaines pour la Gestion Communautaire des forêts

REFACOF 2009 Edéa Cameroon J

Réseau des Organisations de Solidarité Internationale Côte d'Ivoire

ROSI Côte d'Ivoire 2014 Abidjan Côte d'Ivoire G

Réseau des Organisations Féminines d'Afrique Francophone

ROFAF 2006 Lomé Togo F

Réseau francophone pour l’égalité femme-homme

RF-EFH 2013 Dakar Senegal F y

Réseau International des Droits Humains

RIDH 2008 Le Grand-Saconnex Switzerland F

Réseau International des Universités Libres

RIUL 2014 Brussels Belgium J

Réseau pour l'Intégration des Femmes des Organisations Non Gouvernementales et Associations Africaines

RIFONGA J

Réseau Universitaire et Scientifique Euro-Méditerranéen sur le Genre et les Femmes

RUSEMEG 2012 Marseille France F f

Resilient40

2019 Kampala Uganda F

RESO-Femmes International

Geneva Switzerland J

RESPECT

1998 Amsterdam Netherlands F

Restored

2010 Teddington UK G y

RET International

2000 Geneva Switzerland F

Right Livelihood Foundation

1980 Enskede Sweden F f

Right Sharing of World Resources

RSWR 1967 Richmond IN USA G

Right to Education Initiative

RTE 2000 London UK F

Right to Food and Nutrition Watch Consortium

2013 Heidelberg Germany F y

Right to Play International

Toronto ON Canada E

Rights and Humanity

1986 F

Rigoberta Menchú Tum Foundation

Mexico City Mexico G f

RIPESS Europe - Economy Solidarity Europe

RIPESS Europe 2011 Esch-sur-Alzette Luxembourg E y

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