Target 5.3

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Target 5.3 is a specific sub-goal under the UN Sustainable Development Goal on gender equality that focuses on eliminating harmful practices such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Sustainable Development Goal target
United Nations development target
addressesIssue gender-based harmful practices
harmful practices against women and girls
addressesPopulation girls
women
adoptedBy United Nations General Assembly
adoptedInResolution UN General Assembly resolution 70/1 NERFINISHED
adoptionDate 2015-09-25
adoptionYear 2015
belongsToGoal Gender equality
SDG 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
contributesTo empowerment of women and girls
ending violence against women and girls
gender equality
focusesOn elimination of child marriage
elimination of early marriage
elimination of female genital mutilation
elimination of forced marriage
goalNumber 5.3
hasDimension community engagement
data collection and monitoring
legal reform
social norm change
hasOfficialUNName Eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation
hasShortName Eliminate harmful practices
indicator Indicator 5.3.1: Proportion of women aged 20–24 years who were married or in a union before age 15 and before age 18
Indicator 5.3.2: Proportion of girls and women aged 15–49 years who have undergone female genital mutilation/cutting, by age
linkedToConvention Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women NERFINISHED
Convention on the Rights of the Child NERFINISHED
monitoredBy UN Women NERFINISHED
UNFPA NERFINISHED
UNICEF NERFINISHED
United Nations Statistics Division NERFINISHED
partOf 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development NERFINISHED
Sustainable Development Goal 5 NERFINISHED
Sustainable Development Goals NERFINISHED
policyArea family law
human rights
public health
relatedToHumanRight right to bodily integrity
rights of the child
women’s rights
requiresActionBy civil society organizations
international organizations
national governments
timeHorizon by 2030

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