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SEAN NICKLIN, GENERAL COORDINATOR OF THE
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FORUM FOR TUDOR ROSE
With the establishment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015, Tudor Rose and its Human
Development Forum has accepted the challenge to expand its human development publishing with the
creation of a series of volumes, each dedicated to one or more of the 17 SDGs.
Entitled
A Better World
, this volume first published in November 2016 covers Goal 5: Gender Equality and
Women’s Empowerment.
While the world has achieved progress towards gender equality and women’s empowerment under the
Millennium Development Goals (including equal access to primary education between girls and boys), women
and girls continue to suffer discrimination and violence in every part of the world. Gender equality is not only
a fundamental human right, but a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world.
Providing women and girls with equal access to education, health care, decent work, and representation in
political and economic decision-making processes will fuel sustainable economies and benefit societies and
humanity at large.
This volume reflects the progress and challenges in this essential topic, highlighting good practices in a wide
variety of societies and disciplines. By focusing on the experiences and livelihoods of people, especially those
in vulnerable human habitats, the book will show the benefits of best policy and practices, and how these may
develop further as we come to terms with a changing and more turbulent world. This innovative endeavour
is a striking example of sharing respective resources to engage the many official governmental, international
organisations, institutional and professional interests in displaying the extent and variety of their efforts to
make the world a better place.
Since 1999 Tudor Rose has published 27 books in partnership with the United Nations and its agencies,
covering a diverse range of subjects from disaster reduction, water management and climate science to
intercultural dialogue and humanitarian assistance. The books are read extensively by the human development
sector and especially by community leaders in vulnerable regions around the globe.
The books are close collaborations between individual UN agencies, UN member states and civil sector
organisations, committed to a better future for the world. They have widened the knowledge of people in
vulnerable communities and given them inspiration and knowledge to better their lives in a sustainable way.
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