
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.


Who Pays to Fulfill Health Rights? Aid Eligibility, Accountability and Fiscal Space

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

Why global health can offer more on gender

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

A gendered perspective on the pandemic

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

Feminist whiteness, feminist ethical responsibility and femoresistance

Gender and everyday peacebuilding: Insights from Indonesia and Nigeria

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

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

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