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The Disability and Development Report 2024, “Accelerating the realization of the Sustainable Development Goals by, for and with persons with disabilities”, is an update of the 2018 edition of the same flagship report, produced in response to a request by the United Nations General Assembly in its resolution 75/154 of 23 December 2020.
The report indicates that persons with disabilities are often left behind in the efforts to achieve Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, with wide gaps persisting between persons with and without disabilities, particularly on food security, health, and access to energy and ICT. Considering COVID-19, the report assesses the different ways the pandemic impacted progress towards achieving these goals and identifies concrete steps forward that is inclusive for all.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Ending poverty (Goal 1)
Ending hunger, achieving food security and improved nutrition (Goal 2)
Ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being (Goal 3)
Reducing maternal mortality and accessing sexual and reproductive health services and reproductive rights (targets 3.1, 3.7 and 5.6)
Ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education (Goal 4)
Achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls (Goal 5)
Ensuring the availability of water, sanitation and hygiene (Goal 6)
Ensuring access to energy (Goal 7)
Promoting full and productive employment and decent work (Goal 8)
Increasing access to information and communications technology (target 9.c)
Reducing inequalities and promoting inclusion (target 10.2)
Eliminating discriminatory laws, policies and practices (targets 10.3 and 16.b)
Making cities and human settlements inclusive and sustainable (Goal 11)
Building resilience and reducing exposure and impact from climate-related hazards and other shocks and disasters (targets 1.5, 11.5 and 11.b and Goal 13)
Reducing all forms of violence and ending abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence against children (targets 16.1 and 16.2)
Ensuring equal access to justice (target 16.3)
Developing inclusive institutions, ensuring inclusive decision-making and reducing bribery and corruption (targets 16.5, 16.6 and 16.7)
Providing legal identity for all, including birth registration (target 16.9)
Ensuring public access to information (target 16.10)
Mobilizing official development assistance (target 17.2)
Enhancing the use of enabling technology (target 17.8)
International trade (targets 17.10 to 17.12)
Increasing the availability of data (target 17.18)
Conclusion: SDG progress by, for and with persons with disabilities at a glance
Annex 1. SDG progress by, for and with persons with disabilities by goal
Explanatory notes
Endnotes