
More than 20 professors, researchers and students focus their work around SDG 5 at the Graduate Institute. This work entails consultancy work for UN Women, research projects, such as the DEMETER project on Gender, Land and the Rights to Food. We additionally offer a variety of academic and executive education courses. The Gender Centre serves as a research hub on gender at the Graduate Institute.


DEMETER – Gender, Land, and the Right to Food

Exploring privilege through feminist gender training

Introduction Gender Experts and Gender Expertise

Decolonial Feminist Horizons beyond Development

Hatred, Compassion, and Love: Productions of Political Communities and Bodies through the Affective Politics around ISIS Visuals of Queer Executions

WHS 2017: Equitable Access to Universal Health Coverage & Care

Forced sterilisations and the violence of the everyday

Gender politics of and for Kayambi women: house and chakra as public spaces

Why global health can offer more on gender

Gender Theory in Practice

Gender Experts and Gender Expertise
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View moreGoal 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