5
Events
5 December, 2019

The Gender Binary in International Sporting Regulations: Legal gender categories as producers of (in)equalities in sports

Maison de la paix
Gender Centre
News
6th December 2021

Students Present “Blue Peace” Project at World Conservation Congress

Claire Somerville
516
Events
5 November, 2019

Patriarchy, Gender and Peace

Maison de la Paix
Achim Wennmann
5
News
3rd September 2019

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

Claire Somerville
5
Events
11 July, 2024

Genre et développement FAQ

Online
Executive Education
58
Events
15 March, 2018

Jobs that Work for Women. How Does The Rural Labour Market Shape Gender Relations?

Maison de la Paix, Geneva
Gender Centre
510
News
3rd May 2021

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

Gender Centre and Claire Somerville
516
News
5th May 2021

‘Peace starts in the home’: gender-transformative peacebuilding in Colombia

Gender Centre
25
Research
Research project in progress

DEMETER – Gender, Land, and the Right to Food

Elisabeth Prügl, Fenneke Reysoo and Saba Joshi
516
Events
25 October, 2021

Public Lecture “Women’s Voices in the International Judiciary”

Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy
517
Events
12 April, 2018

Folding Business In, Folding Gender Out: A Critical Analysis of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women Initiative in Nigeria

Maison de la Paix, Geneva
Gender Centre
516
Events
6 November, 2019

Overcoming Challenges to Women’s Participation in Sustainable Peacebuilding

Maison de la Paix
Achim Wennmann
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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