35
Events
25 May, 2021

Shifting the paradigm for gender equity in health innovation: transforming research and development to better meet women’s needs

Global Health Centre
5
Events
9 April, 2020

Blurring the Private/Public Binary : A Home Away from Home for Migrant Domestic Workers in Beirut

Maison de la Paix
Gender Centre
5
Events
21 November, 2019

Women’s Rights in Latin America

Maison de la paix
Nicole Bourbonnais
510
Events
12 March, 2020

Home SOS: Gender, Violence and Survival in Crisis Ordinary Cambodia

Maison de la paix
Gender Centre
516
Events
11 February, 2019

Can we explain sexual violence by war and culture?

Auditorium Jacques Freymond
Executive Education and Alexandre Freire
516
Research
Research project

Sexual Violence against Men in Conflict

Gender Centre and Elisabeth Prügl
5
News
27th August 2019

Justice denied? Access to justice for victims of sexual violence

Sara Davis
5
Publications
Journal article, 9 September, 2019

Accelerating the United Nation’s 2030 Global Agenda: Why prioritising the gender goal is essential

Claire Somerville
516
Events
9 May, 2019

Gendered Security Strategies: How Women Matter in the Policy and Practice of “Countering Violent Extremism”

Maison de la Paix
Gender Centre
5
Events
5 May, 2022

“Difficult Patients”: Distinction and Inequality of Black Women in Reproductive Care

Gender Centre
35
Events
22 May, 2020

Masked Heroines? Building Resilience Begins with a Gender-Equitable Health Workforce

Maison de la Paix
Global Health Centre
Publications
Journal article, January 2016

Accelerating achievement of the sustainable development goals

Ilona Kickbusch
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Goal 5 highlights that gender inequality persists worldwide, depriving women and girls of their basic rights and opportunities. “Achieving gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls will require more vigorous efforts, including legal frameworks, to counter deeply rooted gender-based discrimination that often results from patriarchal attitudes and related social norms” as put  by the UN Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform. Read more about Goal 5

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Target 5.1

End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere

Target 5.2

Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation

Target 5.3

Eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation

Target 5.4

Recognize and value unpaid care and domestic work through the provision of public services, infrastructure and social protection policies and the promotion of shared responsibility within the household and the family as nationally appropriate

Target 5.5

Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life

Target 5.6

Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights as agreed in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences

Target 5.a

Undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, financial services, inheritance and natural resources, in accordance with national laws

Target 5.b

Enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology, to promote the empowerment of women

Target 5.c

Adopt and strengthen sound policies and enforceable legislation for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls at all levels