
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.


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

Can we explain sexual violence by war and culture?

‘Peace is in our hands’. Women take the lead to rebuild trust

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

Gender analyses of the COVID-19 pandemic

Masked Heroines? Building Resilience Begins with a Gender-Equitable Health Workforce

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Kick it like a girl! Françoise Grange Omokaro to study girls’ junior football teams in Africa

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

Advocacy in International Affairs Q&A

Gender Experts and Gender Expertise
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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