Healing Through Love is a social enterprise
We follow four of the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Disability agenda for sustainability goals
SDGs – 3, 4, 5, 10
Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
Targets
- By 2030, reduce the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100,000 live births
- By 2030, end preventable deaths of newborns and children under 5 years of age, with all countries aiming to reduce neonatal mortality to at least as low as 12 per 1,000 live births and under-5 mortality to at least as low as 25 per 1,000 live births
- By 2030, end the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and neglected tropical diseases and combat hepatitis, water-borne diseases, and other communicable diseases
- By 2030, reduce by one third premature mortality from non-communicable diseases through prevention and treatment and promote mental health and well-being
- Strengthen the prevention and treatment of substance abuse, including narcotic drug abuse and harmful use of alcohol
- By 2020, halve the number of global deaths and injuries from road traffic accidents 3.7
- By 2030, ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care services, including for family planning, information and education, and the integration of reproductive health into national strategies and programmes
- Achieve universal health coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health-care services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all
- By 2030, substantially reduce the number of deaths and illnesses from hazardous chemicals and air, water and soil pollution and contamination
- Strengthen the implementation of the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in all countries, as appropriate
- Support the research and development of vaccines and medicines for the communicable and noncommunicable diseases that primarily affect developing countries, provide access to affordable essential medicines and vaccines, in accordance with the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health, which affirms the right of developing countries to use to the full the provisions in the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights regarding flexibilities to protect public health, and, in particular, provide access to medicines for all
- Substantially increase health financing and the recruitment, development, training and retention of the health workforce in developing countries, especially in least developed countries and small island developing States
- Strengthen the capacity of all countries, in particular developing countries, for early warning, risk reduction and management of national and global health risks
Conversations
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(Forthcoming)
Resources
(Further suggestions for resources related to the above Goal are welcome – Email enable@un.org)
- Fact Sheet on Disability and Health, 2015, WHO
- Better health for people with disabilities: infographic, WHO
- HIV/AIDS and disability: capturing hidden voices, Washington, DC: World Bank
- Meeting the needs of people with disabilities – new approaches in the health sector, Poverty Reduction Sourcebook technical note. Wiman, Ronald; Helander, Einar; Westland, Joan. 2002. Washington, DC: World Bank.
Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
Targets
- By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education leading to relevant and Goal-4 effective learning outcomes
- By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys have access to quality early childhood development, care and pre-primary education so that they are ready for primary education
- By 2030, ensure equal access for all women and men to affordable and quality technical, vocational and tertiary education, including university
- By 2030, substantially increase the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship
- By 2030, eliminate gender disparities in education and ensure equal access to all levels of education and vocational training for the vulnerable, including persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples and children in vulnerable situations
- By 2030, ensure that all youth and a substantial proportion of adults, both men and women, achieve literacy and numeracy
- By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development
- Build and upgrade education facilities that are child, disability and gender sensitive and provide safe, nonviolent, inclusive and effective learning environments for all
- By 2020, substantially expand globally the number of scholarships available to developing countries, in particular least developed countries, small island developing States and African countries, for enrolment in higher education, including vocational training and information and communications technology, technical, engineering and scientific programmes, in developed countries and other developing countries
- By 2030, substantially increase the supply of qualified teachers, including through international cooperation for teacher training in developing countries, especially least developed countries and small island developing states
Conversations
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Resources
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- The UN Secretary General’s Global Initiative on Education
- UNESCO supports and promotes inclusive education
- The Right of Children with Disabilities to Education: A Rights-Based Approach to Inclusive Education (UNICEF Position Paper, 2012)
- The Global Partnership for Education (supports developing countries to ensure every child receives quality basic education, with a focus area on children with disabilities)
- Equal Right, Equal Opportunity, Inclusive Education for Children with Disabilities, Handicap International, 2013
- Pocket Guide to Supporting Learners with Disabilities, Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies
- Promoting the Rights of Children with Disabilities, (with chapters on education) UNICEF, 2007
Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
Targets
- End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere
- 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
- Eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation
- 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
- Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision making in political, economic, and public life
- 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
- 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
- Enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology, to promote the empowerment of women
- 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
Conversations
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(Forthcoming)
Resources
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- Factsheet on women and girls with disabilities, UN DESA
- Operationalising the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development for Women and Girls with Disabilities, side Event during the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW60), 2016
- Information and Resources on Gender Equality and Empowerment, Women Watch
- Women with Disabilities and the Human Rights to Health: A Policy Paper, Women with Disabilities Australia (2010)
- Disability rights, gender and development: A resource tool for action, Wellesley Centres for Women, 2010
Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries
Targets
- By 2030, progressively achieve and sustain income growth of the bottom 40 per cent of the population at a rate higher than the national average
- By 2030, empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status
- Ensure equal opportunity and reduce inequalities of outcome, including by eliminating discriminatory laws, policies and practices and promoting appropriate legislation, policies and action in this regard
- Adopt policies, especially fiscal, wage and social protection policies, and progressively achieve greater equality
- Improve the regulation and monitoring of global financial markets and institutions and strengthen the implementation of such regulations
- Ensure enhanced representation and voice for developing countries in decision-making in global international economic and financial institutions in order to deliver more effective, credible, accountable and legitimate institutions
- Facilitate orderly, safe, regular and responsible migration and mobility of people, including through the implementation of planned and well-managed migration policies
- Implement the principle of special and differential treatment for developing countries, in particular least developed countries, in accordance with World Trade Organization agreements
- Encourage official development assistance and financial flows, including foreign direct investment, to States where the need is greatest, in particular least developed countries, African countries, small island developing States and landlocked developing countries, in accordance with their national plans and programmes
- By 2030, reduce to less than 3 per cent the transaction costs of migrant remittances and eliminate remittance corridors with costs higher than 5 per cent
Conversations
Forward your comments, suggestions, references and/or new information of the SDGs and persons with disabilities to enable @un.org or follow @UNEnable on Facebook and Twitter and use hashtag#Envision2030 to join the global conversation and help create a world that is fully inclusive of persons with disabilities by 2030.
(Forthcoming)
Resources
(Further suggestions for resources related to the above Goal are welcome – Email enable@un.org)
- ECOSOC Special Meeting on Inequality on 30 March 2016
- Synthesis Report on the Global Thematic Consultation on Addressing Inequalities, 2013
- UNICEF: Prior to the High Level Meeting on Disability and Development consultation on disability and inequality paper
- Poverty and Disability, Leonard Cheshire Disability