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How to bring research evidence into policy? Synthesizing strategies of five research projects in low-and middle-income countries

Gender Centre and Claire Somerville
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Who Pays to Fulfill Health Rights? Aid Eligibility, Accountability and Fiscal Space

Sara Davis
516
Events
22 April, 2021

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

Gender Centre
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Why global health can offer more on gender

Claire Somerville
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Land Commercialization, Gendered Agrarian Transformation and the Right to Food (DEMETER)

Adriana Bessa
35
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Journal article, 1 June, 2020

A gendered perspective on the pandemic

Elisabeth Prügl
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10th June 2020

Online release of research documentary “Inequality and Conflict. Beyond Us and Them”

Gender Centre
5
Events
24 November, 2020

Feminist whiteness, feminist ethical responsibility and femoresistance

Gender Centre
516
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11th June 2021

Gender and everyday peacebuilding: Insights from Indonesia and Nigeria

Gender Centre
5
Events
12 October, 2020

Democracy and the Black woman on the poster. A Black feminist critique

Gender Centre
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3rd September 2019

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

Claire Somerville
5
Events
3 December, 2020

Does International Law Help Eradicate Domestic Violence? Assessing the Impact of International Legal Instruments on Domestic Policies

Gender Centre
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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