A/71/398 3. New opportunity: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 40. In September 2015, the General Assembly adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (resolution 70/1), which sets out 17 Sustainable Development Goals and 169 targets to be achieved within the coming 15 years. Sustainable Development Goal 5 is to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. What is remarkable is that gender equality and women’s empowerment are recognized as “a crucial contribution to progress across all the Goals and targets”. Goal 5 has nine specific, interrelated and mutually supportive targets that address many important barriers to advancing women’s rights and are accompanied by gender-specific targets and indicators across other Goals. 14 41. Violence against women is specifically addressed in target 5.2 on the elimination of all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation. Two indicators are key: the proportion of ever-partnered women and girls aged 15 years and older subjected to physical, sexual or psychological violence by a current or former intimate partner in the previous 12 months, by form of violence and by age group (5.2.1) and the proportion of women and girls aged 15 years and older subjected to sexual violence by persons other than an intimate partner, in the previous 12 months, by age group and place of occurrence (5.2.2). Another directly relevant target is 5.3 on the elimination of all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation. Two indicators are key for this target: the percentage of women aged 20-24 who were married or in a union before age 15 and before age 18 (5.3.1) and the percentage of girls and women aged 15 -49 who have undergone female genital mutilation/cutting, by age group (5.3.2). 42. Target 5.1, on ending all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere, is also extremely relevant for violence against women in the light of the intrinsic connection between it and structural discrimination and inequality. 43. Another relevant Goal for violence against women is Goal 16, to promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels, in particular target 16.1, to significantly reduce all forms of violence and related death rates everywhere, and target 16.2, to end abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence against and torture of children. 44. Goal 11, to make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, res ilient and sustainable, and target 11.2, to provide access to safe, affordable, accessible and sustainable transport systems for all, improving road safety, notably by expanding public transport, with special attention to the needs of those in vulnerable s ituations, women, children, persons with disabilities and older persons, and target 11.7, to provide universal access to safe, inclusive and accessible, green and public spaces, in particular for women and children, older persons and persons with disabilit ies, are also directly relevant. 45. A global indicator framework was developed and proposed by the Inter Agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goal Indicators as a tool to follow up on and review the implementation of the 2030 Agenda. The St atistical __________________ 14 16-16456 The prioritization of gender equality and women’s rights is reflected in most elements of the 2030 Agenda, including the declaration, the Goals, targets and indicators and the follow -up and review. 15/24