Sustainable Development Goals and the Universal Design: Familiarizing young people with its basic principles

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04.07.2018

59 students from Kyiv Institute of Intellectual Rights not only learned about the Sustainable Development Goals and Universal Design, but also offered their vision of making progress to meet the Agenda 2030. The meeting took place on April 19, 2018.

How to prevent discrimination towards youth at the labour market? Why are the human rights inalienable from the Sustainable Development Goals? And could young people promote gender equality?

The Global Sustainable Development Goals were adopted in 2015. The three-year consultations on the choosing new goals have become the lengthiest in the history of the United Nations.

Today, governments throughout the world committed to achieve progress in line with established indicators of 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

Universal Design is a way of designing all things, focusing on a person, while considering the needs of everyone. Thanks to the universal design, each of us, regardless of age, body size or disability, is able to vote, receive high-quality education, medical services and a decent work.