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.
Are women better welfare recipients?
Public Policy, Economic Development and Gender
Integration journeys of refugee women in Geneva
How to bring research evidence into policy? Synthesizing strategies of five research projects in low-and middle-income countries
The post-political link between gender and climate change: the case of the Nationally Determined Contributions Support Programme
African women in films about African colonial and postcolonial conflicts
Taking a Gendered Bottom-up Approach to Peacebuilding
Gender Disparities and Replication Effects within the Households. A Cambodian Case Study
Why global health can offer more on gender
The Uncounted: Visibility and the Politics of Data in Global Health
The rise of non-communicable disease (NCDs) in Mozambique: decolonising gender and global health
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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