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17/02/2021 GMT

Goal 5: Gender equality

BBC World Service - Project 17, Goal 5: Gender equality

Seventeen-year-olds tell us what they want from the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Seventeen-year-old Sahar lives in New Delhi and wants to know if anything is really changing in terms of attitudes towards women in India.

Seventeen-year-old Sahar Beg from New Delhi, is looking at gender inequality in India.  She and her friends know they are treated differently just because they were born girls. They talk about families where the brother’s birthday is celebrated every year, when none of the sister’s birthdays are marked at all. Then there is the question of violence against women and girls. Sahar has watched the reports about a gang rape in Hathras, Uttar Pradesh and talks to the local political leader who is defending the accused men. She also talks to the Chair of the National Commission for Women, Rekha Sharma about what needs to change and whether the pandemic has actually taken women’s rights away.  In lockdowns which have seen spikes in domestic abuse around the world, Sahar hears the inspiring story of a survivor which gives her hope. Project 17 is produced in partnership with The Open University.
Presenter: Sana Safi 
Producers: Nina Robinson and Rajesh Joshi

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