
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.


The health workforce: a good investment

Decolonizing Pedagogies: Black feminist reflections on gender, race, faith and seeking solidarity in the academy

“I do all I can but I still fail them”: Health system barriers to providing Option B+ to pregnant and lactating women in Malawi

Why global health can offer more on gender

From warriors to local peacebuilders? Lessons from reintegration processes in post-conflict settings through the voices of former (female) combatants

Binary Gendering as a Facilitator of Inequality in the Law

The post-political link between gender and climate change: the case of the Nationally Determined Contributions Support Programme

Women’s Voices in the Media: Changing the World

Pathways and obstacles to achieve a more diverse, democratic, and inclusive international judiciary

Unsafe in Your Own Home: Violence against Women and the Politics of Domination

Taking a Gendered Bottom-up Approach to Peacebuilding
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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