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LET’S TALK ABOUT SEX GENDER EQUALITY AND WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT Echoing human security principles, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development emphasises a “world free from fear and free from want.” To achieve its transformative promise, Agenda 2030 calls for a new approach to address the interconnectivity of today’s challenges. To this end, human security and applying a gender perspective provides an effective analytical lens and programming framework and one where gender must be mainstreamed throughout.
DEIRDRE CARBERY Human Security & Gender Advisor & Chair of WHIS Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Expert Group VIEW CONTRIBUTOR’S BIO
