10 Reduced Inequalities
Reduce inequality within and among countries
Advanced societies rely on a complex quality and compliance system to ensure proper functioning of the market, protect people’s health and safety and preserve the environment. This system is commonly defined as a national quality infrastructure (NQI) and refers to all aspects of metrology, standardization, testing, quality management, certification and accreditation that have a bearing on conformity assessment.
Many developing countries suffer from a weak NQI, which can be a major impediment to their integration into regional and global markets, limiting the opportunities offered by trade and hindering their ability to improve public welfare in vital areas such as health, safety and environmental protection. Part of the ISO Strategy 2016-2020 involves capacity building for developing countries in areas such as strategy, technical and operational expertise, and relationships with policy makers, to support their participation in international standardization.
This, in turn, helps them strengthen their NQI, thus reducing inequalities within and amongst countries. What’s more, ISO standards themselves contribute to the reduction of inequalities, because they serve as a common language that helps to break down barriers to trade, promote innovation and level the playing field for organizations of all types wishing to compete in national and international markets. We also have specific standards that will help organizations contribute directly to this SDG.
ISO 26000, Guidance on social responsibility, for example, provides guidelines on how businesses and organizations can operate in a socially responsible way, which includes encompassing the principles of non-discrimination and equal opportunities. The core subjects and issues defined by the standard comprise human rights, labour practices, the environment, fair operating practices, consumer issues and community involvement.
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80 standards contributing to SDG 10
Standard and/or project | Sector | TC |
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Wheelchairs -- Part 2: Determination of dynamic stability of electrically powered wheelchairs
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Health, medicine and laboratory equipment | ISO/TC 173/SC 1 |
Wheelchairs -- Part 6: Determination of maximum speed of electrically powered wheelchairs
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Health, medicine and laboratory equipment | ISO/TC 173/SC 1 |
Wheelchairs -- Part 8: Requirements and test methods for static, impact and fatigue strengths
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Health, medicine and laboratory equipment | ISO/TC 173/SC 1 |
Wheelchairs -- Part 22: Set-up procedures
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Health, medicine and laboratory equipment | ISO/TC 173/SC 1 |
Wheelchairs -- Part 25: Batteries and chargers for powered wheelchairs
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Health, medicine and laboratory equipment | ISO/TC 173/SC 1 |
Wheelchairs -- Part 30: Wheelchairs for changing occupant posture -- Test methods and requirements
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Health, medicine and laboratory equipment | ISO/TC 173/SC 1 |
Quality management -- Quality of an organization -- Guidance to achieve sustained success
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Business management and innovation | ISO/TC 176/SC 2 |
Assistive products for persons with disability -- Classification and terminology
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Health, medicine and laboratory equipment | ISO/TC 173/SC 2 |
Quality management -- Customer satisfaction -- Guidelines for codes of conduct for organizations
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Business management and innovation | ISO/TC 176/SC 3 |
Quality management -- Customer satisfaction -- Guidelines for complaints handling in organizations
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Business management and innovation | ISO/TC 176/SC 3 |
Quality management -- Customer satisfaction -- Guidelines for dispute resolution external to organizations
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Business management and innovation | ISO/TC 176/SC 3 |
Quality management -- Customer satisfaction -- Guidelines for business-to-consumer electronic commerce transactions
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Business management and innovation | ISO/TC 176/SC 3 |
ISO/NP 10014 [Under development]
Quality management -- Guidelines for realizing financial and economic benefits
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Business management and innovation | ISO/TC 176/SC 3 |
ISO/DIS 10015 [Under development]
Quality management -- Guidelines for competence management and people development
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Business management and innovation | ISO/TC 176/SC 3 |
ISO/DIS 10018 [Under development]
Quality management systems -- Guidelines on people engagement
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Business management and innovation | ISO/TC 176/SC 3 |
Technical systems and aids for disabled or handicapped persons -- Wheelchair tiedown and occupant-restraint systems -- Part 1: Requirements and test methods for all systems
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Health, medicine and laboratory equipment | ISO/TC 173/SC 1 |
Needle-based injection systems for medical use -- Requirements and test methods -- Part 7: Accessibility for persons with visual impairment
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Health, medicine and laboratory equipment | ISO/TC 84 |
Medical devices -- Quality management systems -- Requirements for regulatory purposes
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Health, medicine and laboratory equipment | ISO/TC 210 |
Implants for surgery -- Wear of total hip-joint prostheses -- Part 2: Methods of measurement
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Health, medicine and laboratory equipment | ISO/TC 150/SC 4 |
Sustainability in building construction -- General principles
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Building and construction | ISO/TC 59/SC 17 |
Guidelines for treated wastewater use for irrigation projects -- Part 1: The basis of a reuse project for irrigation
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Sustainability and environment | ISO/TC 282/SC 1 |
Guidelines for treated wastewater use for irrigation projects -- Part 2: Development of the project
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Sustainability and environment | ISO/TC 282/SC 1 |
Guidelines for treated wastewater use for irrigation projects -- Part 3: Components of a reuse project for irrigation
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Sustainability and environment | ISO/TC 282/SC 1 |
Guidelines for treated wastewater use for irrigation projects -- Part 4: Monitoring
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Sustainability and environment | ISO/TC 282/SC 1 |
Wheelchair seating -- Part 3: Determination of static, impact and repetitive load strengths for postural support devices
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Health, medicine and laboratory equipment | ISO/TC 173/SC 1 |
Packaging -- Braille on packaging for medicinal products
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Freight, packaging and distribution | ISO/TC 122 |
ISO 18091 [Under development]
Quality management systems -- Guidelines for the application of ISO 9001 in local government
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Business management and innovation | ISO/TC 176 |
Accessible design -- Information contents, figuration and display methods of tactile guide maps
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Health, medicine and laboratory equipment | ISO/TC 173/SC 7 |
Addressing -- Part 1: Conceptual model
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Information technology, graphics and photography | ISO/TC 211 |
Packaging -- Accessible design -- Information and marking
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Freight, packaging and distribution | ISO/TC 122 |
Event sustainability management systems -- Requirements with guidance for use
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ISO/TMBG | |
Sustainable procurement -- Guidance
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ISO/TMBG | |
Treated wastewater reuse for irrigation -- Guidelines for the adaptation of irrigation systems and practices to treated wastewater
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Sustainability and environment | ISO/TC 282/SC 1 |
Guidelines for health risk assessment and management for non-potable water reuse
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Sustainability and environment | ISO/TC 282/SC 3 |
Guidelines for performance evaluation of treatment technologies for water reuse systems -- Part 1: General
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Sustainability and environment | ISO/TC 282/SC 3 |
ISO/DIS 20468-2 [Under development]
Guidelines for performance evaluation of treatment technologies for water reuse systems -- Part 2: Methodology to evaluate performance of treatment systems on the basis of greenhouse gas emissions
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Sustainability and environment | ISO/TC 282/SC 3 |
ISO/CD 20468-3 [Under development]
Guidelines for performance evaluation of treatment technologies for water reuse systems -- Part 3: Ozone treatment technology
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Sustainability and environment | ISO/TC 282/SC 3 |
ISO/CD 20468-4 [Under development]
Guidelines for performance evaluation of treatment technologies for water reuse systems -- Part 4: UV Disinfection
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Sustainability and environment | ISO/TC 282/SC 3 |
ISO/CD 20468-5 [Under development]
Guidelines for performance evaluation of treatment technologies for water reuse systems -- Part 5: Membrane filtration
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Sustainability and environment | ISO/TC 282/SC 3 |
ISO/CD 20468-6 [Under development]
Guidelines for performance evaluation of treatment technologies for water reuse systems -- Part 6: Ion exchange technology
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Sustainability and environment | ISO/TC 282/SC 3 |
ISO/CD 20468-7 [Under development]
Guidelines for performance evaluation of treatment technologies for water reuse systems -- Part 7: Advanced Oxidation Processes
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Sustainability and environment | ISO/TC 282/SC 3 |
Guidelines for water quality grade classification for water reuse
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Sustainability and environment | ISO/TC 282/SC 3 |
Water reuse -- Vocabulary
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Sustainability and environment | ISO/TC 282 |
Water reuse in urban areas -- Guidelines for centralized water reuse system -- Part 1: Design principle of a centralized water reuse system
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Sustainability and environment | ISO/TC 282/SC 2 |
Water reuse in urban areas -- Guidelines for centralized water reuse system -- Part 2: Management of a centralized water reuse system
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Sustainability and environment | ISO/TC 282/SC 2 |
Water reuse in urban areas -- Guidelines for water reuse safety evaluation -- Assessment parameters and methods
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Sustainability and environment | ISO/TC 282/SC 2 |
Educational organizations -- Management systems for educational organizations -- Requirements with guidance for use
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Information technology, graphics and photography | ISO/PC 288 |
Guidance on unit pricing
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Services | ISO/PC 294 |
Building construction -- Accessibility and usability of the built environment
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Building and construction | ISO/TC 59/SC 16 |
ISO/CD 21902 [Under development]
Tourism and related services -- Accessible tourism for all -- Requirements and recommendations
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Services | ISO/TC 228 |
ISO/FDIS 21939-1 [Under development]
A method to calculate and express energy consumption of industrial wastewater treatment for the purpose of water reuse -- Part 1: Biological processes
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Sustainability and environment | ISO/TC 282/SC 4 |
ISO/CD 22095 [Under development]
Chain of custody -- General terminology, concepts, requirements and guidance
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Business management and innovation | ISO/PC 308 |
ISO/AWI 22238 [Under development]
Water reuse -- A guideline to wastewater disinfection and equivalent treatments
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Sustainability and environment | ISO/TC 282/SC 1 |
ISO/DIS 22447 [Under development]
Industrial wastewater classification
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Sustainability and environment | ISO/TC 282/SC 4 |
ISO/DIS 22449-1 [Under development]
Use of reclaimed water in industrial cooling systems -- Part 1: Technical guidelines
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Sustainability and environment | ISO/TC 282/SC 4 |
ISO/DIS 22449-2 [Under development]
Use of reclaimed water in industrial cooling systems -- Part 2: Guidelines for cost analysis
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Sustainability and environment | ISO/TC 282/SC 4 |
ISO/WD 22458 [Under development]
Inclusive service: identifying and responding to consumers in vulnerable situations
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Services | ISO/PC 311 |
ISO/FDIS 22519 [Under development]
Purified water and water for injection pretreatment and production systems
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Sustainability and environment | ISO/TC 282 |
ISO/DIS 22524 [Under development]
Pilot plan for industrial wastewater treatment facilities in the objective of reuse
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Sustainability and environment | ISO/TC 282/SC 4 |
ISO/CD 23043 [Under development]
Evaluation of industrial wastewater treatment technologies for reuse
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Sustainability and environment | ISO/TC 282/SC 4 |
ISO/CD 23044 [Under development]
Guidelines for softening and desalination of industrial wastewater for reuse
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Sustainability and environment | ISO/TC 282/SC 4 |
ISO/CD 23056 [Under development]
Water reuse in urban areas - Guidelines for decentralized/onsite water reuse system·-· Design principle of a decentralized/onsite system
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Sustainability and environment | ISO/TC 282/SC 2 |
ISO/CD 23070 [Under development]
Water Reuse in Urban Areas --Guidelines for reclaimed water treatment -- Design principle of a RO desalination system of municipal wastewater
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Sustainability and environment | ISO/TC 282/SC 2 |
ISO 24508 [Under development]
Ergonomics -- Accessible design -- Guidelines for designing tactile symbols and characters
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Health, medicine and laboratory equipment | ISO/TC 159/SC 4 |
ISO/DIS 24509 [Under development]
Ergonomics -- Accessible design -- A method for estimating minimum legible font size for people at any age
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Health, medicine and laboratory equipment | ISO/TC 159/SC 4 |
Activities relating to drinking water and wastewater services -- Guidelines for the management of basic on-site domestic wastewater services
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Services | ISO/TC 224 |
ISO/DTS 26030 [Under development]
Sustainable development and social responsibility -- Guidance for using ISO 26000:2010 in the food chain
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Food and agriculture | ISO/TC 34 |
Non-sewered sanitation systems -- Prefabricated integrated treatment units -- General safety and performance requirements for design and testing
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ISO/TMBG | |
ISO 34101-1 [Under development]
Sustainable and traceable cocoa -- Part 1: Requirements for cocoa sustainability management systems
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Food and agriculture | ISO/TC 34/SC 18 |
ISO 34101-2 [Under development]
Sustainable and traceable cocoa -- Part 2: Requirements for performance (related to economic, social and environmental aspects)
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Food and agriculture | ISO/TC 34/SC 18 |
ISO 34101-3 [Under development]
Sustainable and traceable cocoa -- Part 3: Requirements for traceability
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Food and agriculture | ISO/TC 34/SC 18 |
ISO/FDIS 34101-4 [Under development]
Sustainable and traceable cocoa -- Part 4: Requirements for certification schemes
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Food and agriculture | ISO/TC 34/SC 18 |
Anti-bribery management systems -- Requirements with guidance for use
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Business management and innovation | ISO/TC 309 |
Sustainable development in communities -- Management system for sustainable development -- Requirements with guidance for use
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Sustainability and environment | ISO/TC 268 |
Sustainable cities and communities -- Indicators for city services and quality of life
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Sustainability and environment | ISO/TC 268 |
ISO/FDIS 37122 [Under development]
Sustainable cities and communities -- Indicators for smart cities
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Sustainability and environment | ISO/TC 268 |
ISO/DIS 37123 [Under development]
Sustainable cities and communities -- Indicators for resilient cities
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Sustainability and environment | ISO/TC 268 |
Chain of custody of wood and wood-based products
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Sustainability and environment | ISO/PC 287 |
Occupational health and safety management systems -- Requirements with guidance for use
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Security, safety and risk | ISO/TC 283 |
ISO/PRF TS 54001 [Under development]
Quality management systems -- Particular requirements for the application of ISO 9001:2015 for electoral organizations at all levels of government
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Business management and innovation | ISO/TC 176 |