
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.


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

International Gender Champions

Menstruations, Sharing Experiences from Africa and Asia

Land Commercialization, Gendered Agrarian Transformation and the Right to Food (DEMETER)

Gender Differences in Professional Career Dynamics: New Evidence from a Global Law Firm

Caring in Time of Crisis: Visioning a Feminist Future

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

Gender Equality: Do what we say, not what we do

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

Intersecting liminalities in forced displacement: drivers and consequences of transactional sex

The Gospel of Birth Control: Prophets, Patients, and the Transnational Family Planning Movement
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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