Publications

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

Sara Davis
5
News
13th June 2022

An Innovation Camp to Promote Feminism and Women’s Leadership in International Law and Policy

Gender Centre
35
Publications
Journal article, 09 October, 2019

Disruption, changes, and adaptation

Claire Somerville
5
News
8th April 2020

Enhancing the protection of sex workers

Gender Centre
5
News
19th March 2018

The Business of Women’s Empowerment in Rwanda

Gender Centre
516
News
11th June 2021

Gender and everyday peacebuilding: Insights from Indonesia and Nigeria

Gender Centre
5
Events
12 November, 2020

Feminist Critique-ability in Authoritarian Times

Gender Centre
Events
25 January, 2022

Advocacy in International Affairs Q&A

Executive Education and Davide Rodogno
516
News
3rd September 2021

Justice and Diversity for the Future

Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy
5
Publications
Journal article, 27 July, 2019

A Discursive Spectrum: The Narrative of Kenya’s “Neglected” Boy Child

Isabel Pike
News
27th April 2022

Childcare, Labor Supply, and Business Development: Experimental Evidence from Uganda

Centre for Finance and Development
5
Events
11 July, 2024

Género y Desarrollo FAQ

Online
Executive Education
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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