Welcome to this issue of the International Journal of Discrimination and the Law. In setting its Sustainable Development Goal 5 (SDG5) to ‘achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls’ by 2030, the United Nations has noted that, ‘The commitment to advancing gender equality has brought about improvements in some areas, but the promise of a world in which every woman and girl enjoy full gender equality and all legal, social and economic barriers to their empowerment have been removed remains unfulfilled.’ Of grave concern is the observation that Covid 19 risks reversing the limited progress that has been made in recent years on gender equality and women’s rights worldwide. As scholars and practitioners interested in discrimination law, the fight to improve women’s social and economic equality must be at the forefront of our work and so we are delighted to introduce this issue of the Journal in which this area is explored in the context of three jurisdictions: India, Nigeria and South Africa.

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社论2021年春季

欢迎阅读《国际歧视与法律杂志》的这一期。联合国在设定其可持续发展目标5（SDG5）之前，力争到2030年“实现性别平等并增强所有妇女和女孩的权能”，并指出：“对促进性别平等的承诺已在某些领域取得了进步，但诺言在这个世界上，每个妇女和女孩都享有充分的性别平等，而消除赋予她们权力的所有法律，社会和经济障碍仍然没有实现。” 令人严重关切的是，观察到Covid 19有可能逆转近年来在全球范围内在性别平等和妇女权利方面取得的有限进展。作为对歧视法感兴趣的学者和从业者，