
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 rise of non-communicable disease (NCDs) in Mozambique: decolonising gender and global health

La définition du genre dans le droit pénal international et le droit international relatif aux droits humains

Feminist whiteness, feminist ethical responsibility and femoresistance

Engendering the right to food? International human rights law, food security and the rural woman

Rural Women and Food Security

The health workforce: a good investment

Engaging women in mobile money markets

Religiously-Inspired Baby Boom: A Case Study of Georgia

Gender Theory in Practice

Sexual Violence, Public Domain, and Disorders of Democracy

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