CANCELLED: Gender equality and the Sustainable Development Goals: a human rights approach
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Status: This talk has been cancelled
In 2015, the world committed itself to an ambitious fifteen year programme to eradicate poverty in all its forms and dimensions. Gender equality is a key aspiration, both as a self-standing goal and as an aspect of several other goals. In a crucial step forward, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) make an explicit commitment to protect human rights. The relationship between binding human rights and the SDG agenda, however, remains contentious and underdeveloped. This presentation asks how best the human rights commitment to gender equality can be harnessed to achieve gender equality as a development goal and simultaneously, how the SDGs can be harnessed to advance the fulfilment of gender equality as a human rights guarantee.
Date: 8 March 2018, 17:00 (Thursday, 8th week, Hilary 2018)
Venue: 32-42 Wellington Square (Barnett House), 32-42 Wellington Square OX1 2ER
Venue Details: Violet Butler Room
Speaker: Prof Sandy Fredman
Organising department: Department of Social Policy and Intervention
Organiser: Ruth Moore (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: events@spi.ox.ac.uk
Part of: Perspectives on Social Policy in Oxford
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Ruth Moore