The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development covers 17 goals, the fifth of which is "gender equity", namely: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.  (Click here for details)

Under this major goal, there are nine targets, the seventh of which is “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”.

● Current Situation

About the World

Significant Gender Differences in Economic

The United Nations has made various efforts to achieve the sustainable development goals. Women play a key role in achieving these goals, many of which include the recognition of women's equal status and the empowerment of women as part of specific goals and solutions. 

Globally, there are still significant gender differences in the economic and political fields. Despite the progress we have made in eliminating gender differences in the past decades, the global average income of women's labor force is still 24% lower than that of men, and women only account for 13% of the owners of agricultural land.

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About China

Ensure Ownership and Control over Land

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China has always attached great importance to the protection of women's ownership and control over land rights, from the land reform, rural household contract with output to the confirmation, registration and certification of rural contracted land and the "Three Rights Separation" of rural land. In rural areas, women's ownership over land and economic interests have been effectively protected. They actively participate in rural revitalization and contribute to the modernization of agriculture.

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●  Cases

About the World

UN Invested in Gender Bonds for Women achieving Sustainable Livelihoods

In January 2020, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific announced that along with the United Nations Capital Development Fund and Rockefeller Foundation, it would invest in the "Women's Livelihood Bond TM Series" with the purpose of providing sustainable livelihoods for women in the Asia Pacific region through innovative financial means.

This series of bonds, issued by the Impact Investment Exchange in Singapore,were to help women in South and Southeast Asia gain access to credit lines, small and micro loans, insurance, agricultural inputs and clean and cheap energy, and provide funds for women to participate in economic activities, make incomes and enhance their climate resilience. The transition from food and clothing to sustainable livelihoods is closely related to the SDG5 gender equality and SDG13 climate action.

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About China

Women's Ownership over Land Ensured by Laws and Regulations

China has guaranteed women's equal access to economic resources through laws, policies, plans and work arrangements. Since 2014, the registration and certification of rural contracted land has been carried out, which clearly requires that rural women's land contractual management rights be recorded in the ownership certificate, and the vast number of rural women have realized "being famous on the certificate and having rights under the name". The revised rural land contract law in 2018 clearly stipulates that the family members of the farmers enjoy the rights and interests of land contract equally in accordance with the law, so as to ensure that rural women enjoy the right of land contract management equally.

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In 2016, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council issued the Opinions on Steadily Promoting Reform of Rural Rollective Rroperty Rights System, which clearly put forward the effective protection of the legitimate rights and interests of rural women. In 2018, seven departments, including the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee and the China Women's Federation jointly issued the Guiding Opinions on Village Rules and Residents' Conventions, demanding to correct the village rules and regulations that conflict with laws and policies and the principle of gender equality.

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●  Background

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Initiated by the United Nations

On January 1, 2016, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including 169 targets, of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development — adopted by world leaders in September 2015 at an historic UN Summit — officially came into force. Countries will mobilize efforts to end all forms of poverty, fight inequalities and tackle climate change, while ensuring that no one is left behind.