- Conference
- 2025 National Women's Conference
- Date
- 11 October 2024
- Decision
- Carried
This conference notes that the SDG Gender Index published in September 2024, Equal Measures 2030, found that no country has, so far, achieved the promise of gender equality envisioned by the UN’s 2030 sustainable development goals set in 2015.
More than 850 million women and girls are living in countries rated as very poor subjecting them to potential restrictions and abuses including forced pregnancies, childhood marriage and bans from secondary education.
Between 2019 and 2022 nearly 40% – home to more than one billion women and girls- stagnated or declined on gender equality
The SDG index only rated one country as very good – Switzerland. The United Kingdom has remained at good on the same score since 2015.Some countries including the USA and Poland have regressed with 14 US states enacting near total abortion bans.
This conference calls upon the National Women’s Committee to work with the National Executive Council and Labour Link committee to
1)To publicise the latest date of the SDG Gender Index as widely as possible.
2)To campaign that the UN Sustainable Development goals relating to gender equality remain high on the government’s agenda
3)To campaign for greater participation for women in national and international decision making structures