Strong UNTST Brief on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment for OWG8

The UN Technical Support Team (UNTST) Issues Brief on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment has been posted on the UN Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform. 

The Issues Brief includes several references to sexual and reproductive health and rights, including highlighting it as a priority issue and recognizing its importance for a stand-alone goal on gender equality, women’s rights and women’s empowerment. Finally the document includes sexual and reproductive health and rights under human development policies that ensure universally accessible and affordable health care among “strategies, and approaches [with which any future goal or set of targets should be couple] that will promote, protect and fulfil the full spectrum of women’s and girls’ rights, many of which are found in international human rights frameworks and in policy commitments…”