Global Health

    In 2015, United Nations set 17 Sustainable Development Goals to achieve with its member. Among those Sustainable Development Goals, I chose number 5 (Achieve Gender’s equality and empower women). Norway is known as one of the most gender-equal nations. Though it is known to be gender equal there are still many challenges to achieve Equilibrium.     Gender equality means men and women both enjoy the same opportunities, resources. Norway has worked in solidarity since 2009 to lower the gender inequality they have also passed several acts to shape the women’s rights. Norway has also taken the 2030 Agenda of UN and working actively. According to the Gender Gap statistics 2020, Norway is working well and ranked second in Gender parity chart  (Gundersen, 2021) . They have passed several acts in recent years like Equity and Anti-discrimination Act. According to the publication reports the working women holds the 36.3 % share of a senior leadersh...

  In 2015, United Nations set 17 Sustainable Development Goals to achieve with its member. Among those Sustainable Development Goals, I chose number 5 (Achieve Gender’s equality and empower women). Switzerland is a champion itself on the topic of gender equality and it is partnered with the UN for gender equality around the world.          Switzerland is involved with UN women on all the issues related to gender like the pay gap, violence against women, gender equality in governance, budgeting, and reducing the pay gap  ( Partner Spotlight: Switzerland,  n.d.) . Switzerland has taken a bold step and placed women's issues in their institutional agenda to achieve SDG goals by 2030. Switzerland's new SDG objectives have placed gender equality at the top among its seven objectives. From a national level to a domestic level Switzerland has placed legislation where a company with more than 50 employees should review their pay policy with the l...

       In 2015, United Nations set 17 Sustainable Development Goals to achieve with its member. Among those Sustainable Development Goals, I chose number 5 (Achieve Gender’s equality and empower women). I am looking at Iraq for a country in this blog. Iraq lies in the eastern part of the Arab world. It is bordered by Turkey in the north, east by Iran, west by Syria and Jordan. It is a middle eastern state with the least access to the sea and offshore sovereignty  (Woods, n.d.) .    Iraq confirms its commitment to achieve SDG 5 by 2030. Gender inequality is high in Iraq in the past. The position of women is still behind in another region compare to Kurdistan region of Iraq. The Iraq is also trying to follow the Kurdistan policy at the national level to eliminate gender inequality  (Kaya, 2018) .     In 2019 Iraq held a conference to shape the vision of Iraqi women on the SDG's agenda. They discussed about the position o...

      In 2015, United Nations set 17 Sustainable Development Goals to achieve with its member. Among  those Sustainable Development Goals, I chose number 5 (Achieve Gender’s equality and empower  women). Ghana is a country located in western Africa. It has 47 different local languages, and it is rich  in diversity. The findings show that there are a lot of obstacles for women in Ghanaian societies. The  research suggested that women have lower literacy rates, lower participation in official jobs, lower rate  of  women participate in tertiary education  (Burgess & Ayentimi, 2020) .    In recent years, the Ghanaian government is working to reduce the gender gap. Psychological violence is high in Ghana, female is engaged in unpaid domestic works. But in recent years Ghana has made progress in addressing early child marriages  (United Nations Partnerships for SDGs Platform, n.d.) . To address the issue of early chil...