The eighth theme addresses the human condition to be improved by sustainable development policies: safeguarding human rights and equitable access for groups in all their diversity to the public life, decision making, health and well-being. It focusses on the needs, strategies and outcomes related to gender balance, ethnicity, class and forms of diversity as  social foundations of stable sustainable societies. This group relates to SDG 3 and 5 and has two topic groups:

8a Gender, Inclusivity and Human Rights (SDG 5)
8b Health and Well-Being (SDG 3)

Updates for the ISDRS 2020 Budapest Conference can be found in their respective topic group pages displayed above