Making change happen - how can the SIGI help?
I really couldn’t understand in the first reading what was so extraordinarily remarkable about the Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) of the OECD. The website tells us that it is one of official data sources for monitoring SDG Indicator 5.1.1 on “Whether or not legal frameworks are in place to promote, enforce and monitor gender equality and women’s empowerment”, together with UN Women and the World Bank Group’s Women Business and the Law . Well and good. As an advocate for human rights in general, and women’s human rights in particular, I welcome the increase in the body of quantitative data available in areas that are key to holding states accountable for fulfilling their obligations under CEDAW (especially) and other treaty bodies . It’s exciting too to learn that SIGI's second dimension, related to #physicalintegrity of women, has spurred the development of mechanisms to enable access to justice for victims of sexual abuse, promo...