Central Focus

The fourth Knowledge Fair will put the spotlight on SRHR and most importantly, Sustainable Development Goal 5: Gender Equality.

The subject matter for the discussions in SRHR Knowledge Fair 2019 is SRHR: Key to Gender Equality. The overall theme is #KnowledgeEmpowers.

This goal aims to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls to reach their full potential. The central question therefore is: How to reach women’ s full potential through SRHR?

Gender equality and women’ s empowerment require eliminating all forms of discrimination and violence against them. Three targets of SDG 5 are related to SRHR:

• Target 5.2: Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in public and private spheres, including trafficking, sexual and other types of exploitation
• Target 5.3: Eliminate all harmful practices, such as child and forced marriage
• Target 5.6: Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights in accordance with the Program of Action of the ICPD and the Beijing Platform for Action