SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

SDG # 5

Gender Equality
SDG #5 aims to promote gender equality and empower women and girls to reach their full potential. It seeks to recognize that everyone deserves equal opportunities, rights, and freedoms, regardless of their gender. This goal aims to break down barriers and challenge stereotypes that hold women and girls back, whether it is in education, the workplace, or their personal lives. By achieving SDG 5, LPU-Laguna hopes to create a more just and equitable world where everyone has the chance to thrive and contribute their unique talents and perspectives.

Target Indicators

5.1 End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere

5.2 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

5.3 Eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation

5.4 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

5.5 Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life

5.6 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

5.A 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

5.B Enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology, to promote the empowerment of women

5.C 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

As an educational institution, LPU-Laguna currently works on the following projects, activities, and initiatives for SDG # 5:

Home for the Golden Gays
Equali-Tea: Chika Lang, Walang Filter
SHE: A Multimedia Exhibit
Rainbow: Portraits of Colorful Stories