Exploring inequities, inspiring new knowledge and action

摘要

“No one left behind”, the mantra of the SustainableDevelopment Goals (SDGs),1 resonates in the globaland development agenda and is being taken up bya myriad of organisations and agencies. It is anappealing, memorable and seductive phrase,beguilingly simple, yet immensely ambitious.Firmly embedded in the recognition of every individual’s dignity, the aim is that the SDG targets bemet globally, for all people, in all segments ofsociety.1 The idea of redressing inequities isimplicit within the pledge of the SDGs, with concerns of exclusion, deprivation and denial of socialand economic opportunities being highlighted,along with the need to confront the fundamentalcauses of why some are forgotten, disregarded orostracised.