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SDG 5: Gender Equality

UN Sustainable Development Goal 5: Gender Equality
Sustainable Development Goal 5

Gender Equality

Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.

Goal 5 addresses discrimination, violence, harmful practices, unpaid care, participation and leadership, sexual and reproductive health and rights, economic resources, technology and enforceable policies for gender equality.

Target-area diagram

What Goal 5 covers

N4SF groups the main policy areas from the official UN targets into this diagram for easier reading.

End discrimination
End violence
End harmful practices
Care and unpaid work
Leadership and participation
Rights, resources and policy
Official United Nations targets

Goal 5 target list

Below are the United Nations targets for SDG 5.

5.1

End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere

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

5.3

Eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and 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

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

5.6

Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights as agreed in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences

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

5.b

Enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology, to promote the empowerment of women

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

Why this belongs in community planning

Global goals become practical through local decisions.

The SDGs overlap across local housing, infrastructure, public services, environmental quality, economic opportunity and community participation. A single neighborhood decision can relate to several goals at the same time.

17integrated goals
169targets across the 2030 Agenda
2030the Agenda's target horizon
United Nations source: Goal 5 targets, indicators and progress. Updated September 20, 2026.

United Nations materials: N4SF uses the official SDG icons in accordance with United Nations guidance. The United Nations has not approved or endorsed this N4SF content, and it does not represent the views of the United Nations, its officials or Member States.

United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

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