UN Women released a new report highlighting the progress made on the 17 Sustainable Development Goal (SDG), which aims to create a better world for all by 2030.
According to Sarah Hendriks, the deputy executive director of UN Women, the data suggests that the world is not progressing toward gender equality. Hendriks believes that this goal is becoming increasingly distant.
The objective of gender equality aims to eliminate gender discrimination, violence against women, forced marriages, genital mutilation, guarantee access to reproductive healthcare, and ensure women's participation in political and economic life by the end of the decade.
However, the report warns that the world is failing women and girls halfway to 2030, with most of the targets falling behind.
Every year, 245 million women over the age of 15 suffer physical violence by their partners, one in five women marry before the age of 18, women do 2.8 more hours of unpaid housework than men, and women represent only 26.7 percent of all lawmakers worldwide.
The agency estimates that it would cost an additional $360 billion in investments per year in 50 developing countries, representing about 70 percent of the world's population, to change these trends.
Hendriks believes that this money would enable the lifting of the entire SDG agenda.
The UN Women report states that the outcomes for many global development goals are worse for women than they are for humanity overall. For example, at the current rate, 575 million people will still live in extreme poverty by 2030, including 342 million women, or approximately 8 percent of the women in the world.
The UN has called for a "rescue plan" ahead of a summit set for September 18 and 19.
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