EU – Actions to Support SDG Goal 5: Achieve Gender Equality & Empower All Women & Girls – European Commission
Author: WUNRN
Date: August 17, 2017
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GOAL 5: ACHIEVE GENDER EQUALITY & EMPOWER ALL WOMEN & GIRLS
EU Actions supporting Goal 5.
- Advisory committee on equal opportunities for women and men
- African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) cooperation
- Agenda for change
- Annual report on equality between women and men
- Caribbean investment facility
- Civil society organisations and local authorities
- Cohesion policy
- Cohesion policy – social inclusion
- Employment equality
- Ending poverty and giving the world a sustainable future
- Enlargement policy
- Equal treatment
- Establishing a rights, equality and citizenship programme
- EU engagement with civil society in external relations
- EU-ASEAN dialogue instrument – Human rights facility
- European development policy
- European Institute for Gender Equality
- European neighbourhood instrument
- European neighbourhood policy
- European pact for gender equality
- Gender – different needs, adapted assistance
- Gender action plan II
- Gender equality and women’s empowerment in developing countries
- Global public goods and challenges (GPGC) programme
- High level group on gender mainstreaming
- Improving the gender balance among non-executive directors of companies listed on stock exchanges and related measures
- Inclusive growth for social cohesion in Latin America
- Instrument for pre-accession assistance (IPA II)
- Istanbul convention
- Mutual learning in gender equality
- New European consensus on development
- New start, an initiative addressing work-life balance challenges faced by working parents and carers
- Protection of children in migration
- Renewed impetus to the Africa-EU partnership
- Strategic engagement for gender equality
- Supporting the promotion of gender equality at national and local level
- Work-life balance
EU Actions Supporting Specific Goal 5 Targets.
5.1 – End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere
- Anti-discrimination movements
- Company reporting
- Employment equality
- Equal treatment
- EU policy on corporate social responsibility
- European progress microfinance facility for employment and social inclusion
- Housing and Sustainable Urban Development – Habitat III
- Posting of workers
- Rights at work
- Strategy for equality between women and men
- Work-life balance
5.2 – Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation
- Addressing trafficking in human beings
- Dignity, integrity and ending gender based violence
- Strategy for equality between women and men
- Sustainable garment value chains
5.3 – Eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation
- Dignity, integrity and ending gender based violence
- Strategy for equality between women and men
- Towards the elimination of female genital mutilation
5.4 – Recognize and value unpaid care and domestic work through the provision of public services, infrastructure and social protection policies and the promotion of shared responsibility within the household and the family as nationally appropriate
- Common agricultural policy – rural development
- European pillar of social rights
- Strategy for equality between women and men
- Work-life balance
5.5 – Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life
- “Everything but arms” arrangement
- Common agricultural policy – rural development
- Company reporting
- Equal treatment
- Equality in decision-making
- European pillar of social rights
- European progress microfinance facility for employment and social inclusion
- European works councils
- Generalised scheme of preferences
- Housing and Sustainable Urban Development – Habitat III
- Improving the gender balance among non-executive directors of companies listed on stock exchanges and related measures
- Rights at work
- Strategy for equality between women and men
- Work-life balance
5.a – Undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, financial services, inheritance and natural resources, in accordance with national laws
- “Everything but arms” arrangement
- Access to payment accounts
- EU policy on corporate social responsibility
- Generalised scheme of preferences
- Housing and Sustainable Urban Development – Habitat III
5.b – Enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology, to promote the empowerment of women
- “Everything but arms” arrangement
- Digital contracts for Europe
- Digital4Development
- Generalised scheme of preferences
- Private sector development
5.c – Adopt and strengthen sound policies and enforceable legislation for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls at all levels
- EU policy on corporate social responsibility
- European pillar of social rights
- Strategy for equality between women and men
- Sustainable garment value chains
- Work-life balance
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