35
Events
7 March, 2022

Menstruations, Sharing Experiences from Africa and Asia

Gender Centre and Global Health Centre
5
News
28th September 2020

Are women better welfare recipients?

Centre for Finance and Development
Teaching
Academic courses

Public Policy, Economic Development and Gender

Martina Viarengo
510
News
8th February 2021

Integration journeys of refugee women in Geneva

Elisabeth Prügl
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
513
Publications
Journal article, 29 July, 2019

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

Gender Centre
516
Events
11 June, 2020

African women in films about African colonial and postcolonial conflicts

Maison de la Paix
Gender Centre
516
News
18th November 2019

Taking a Gendered Bottom-up Approach to Peacebuilding

Elisabeth Prügl and Christelle Rigual
5
Events
20 February, 2020

Gender Disparities and Replication Effects within the Households. A Cambodian Case Study

Maison de la paix
Gender Centre
35
Publications
Journal article, April 2020

Why global health can offer more on gender

Claire Somerville
Research
In progress

The Uncounted: Visibility and the Politics of Data in Global Health

Sara Davis
35
News
29th April 2021

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

Claire Somerville and Gender Centre
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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