Global Civil Society & the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
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 |
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Earth Rights Institute |
ERI | 2001 | Santa Monica CA | USA | G | j |
Earth5R |
2014 | Mumbai | India | F | ||
EarthAction |
EA | 1992 | Amherst MA | USA | F | y |
East Africa Women's League |
EAWL | 1917 | Nairobi | Kenya | G | |
East African Centre for Human Rights |
EACHRights | 2010 | Nairobi | Kenya | G | |
East African Court of Justice |
Arusha | Tanzania UR | K | g | ||
East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Network |
EHAHRD-Net | 2005 | Kampala | Uganda | F | |
East Timor and Indonesia Action Network |
ETAN | 1991 | New York NY | USA | G | |
Eastern Africa Coalition on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights |
EACOR | Nairobi | Kenya | G | ||
Eastern Africa National Networks of AIDS and Health Service Organizations |
EANNASO | 2002 | Arusha | Tanzania UR | F | |
Eastern African Support Unit for NGOs |
EASUN | 1993 | Arusha | Tanzania UR | G | |
Eastern Caribbean Alliance for Diversity and Equality |
ECADE | 2015 | Castries | St Lucia | D | |
Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court |
ECSC | 1967 | Castries | St Lucia | F | g |
Eastern Mediterranean Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions |
EMACAPAP | 2000 | Beirut | Lebanon | D | |
ECHELON Watch |
G | |||||
Echoes of Women in Africa |
ECOWA | 2010 | Benin City | Nigeria | G | |
ECLOF International |
1946 | Geneva | Switzerland | F | f | |
École Universitaire Internationale |
EUI | 2012 | Rome | Italy | G | |
Economic Freedom Network Asia |
EFN Asia | 1998 | Bangkok | Thailand | E | |
Economic Justice Network for Churches in Eastern and Southern Africa |
EJN | 1997 | Cape Town | South Africa | F | |
Economy for the Common Good |
ECG | Hamburg | Germany | C | ||
Ecotechnie |
Chesapeake VA | USA | F | |||
Ecumenical Forum of European Christian Women |
EFECW | 1982 | Vienna | Austria | F | |
Ecumenical Group of Women |
KAIRE | 1971 | F | |||
Ecumenical Program on Central America and the Caribbean |
EPICA | 1968 | Washington DC | USA | G | |
Ecumenical Women's Initiative |
EWI | 2007 | Omis | Croatia | E | |
EDANA, the voice of nonwovens |
EDANA | 1971 | Brussels | Belgium | D | t |
Edmund Rice International |
ERI | Geneva | Switzerland | E | ||
Eduardo Frei Foundation |
1990 | The Hague | Netherlands | G | f | |
Education Development Center |
EDC | 1958 | Waltham MA | USA | G | |
Education International |
EI | 1993 | Brussels | Belgium | B | |
Educational Foundation for African Women |
EFAW | 2009 | Enugu | Nigeria | G | f |
EDUCO |
2013 | Barcelona | Spain | G | ||
EFTA Court |
1994 | Luxembourg | Luxembourg | F | g | |
Egalité |
1993 | Brussels | Belgium | E | ||
Egalité Laïcité Europe |
ÉGALE | 2004 | Paris | France | G | |
Egyptian Organization for Human Rights |
EOHR | 1985 | Cairo | Egypt | G | |
EIB Institute |
2012 | Luxembourg | Luxembourg | E | gj | |
EIT Food |
Heverlee | Belgium | F | |||
EIT Health |
2015 | Munich | Germany | F | ||
EIT InnoEnergy |
Eindhoven | Netherlands | F | |||
EIT Urban Mobility |
EIT UM | 2019 | Barcelona | Spain | F | |
Electronics Watch |
2015 | Amsterdam | Netherlands | F | ||
Eliminating Child Labour in Tobacco Foundation |
ECLT Foundation | 2002 | Geneva | Switzerland | F | fy |
Emerge Poverty Free |
1995 | London | UK | G | ||
Emmaüs Europe |
2005 | Montreuil | France | E | ||
Emmaus International |
1971 | Montreuil | France | E | ||
emp'ACT |
1983 | Geneva | Switzerland | G | ||
Empower International Ministries |
Tustin CA | USA | G | |||
Empower Women |
2013 | New York NY | USA | F |