
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.


Gendering transitional justice: a racialised construction of victimhood in post-revolutionary Tunisia

Gender and Bodies in Global Health

“Confrontation is from Mars, Cooperation is from Venus”. Gendering Defence Cooperation in Europe

Anti-Gender Movements

The (Gendered) Violence among Us

Perceptions of Power: Closing the Gender Gap in the Digital Sphere

Les enjeux de genre en santé communautaire : regards croisés Afrique – Amérique Latine

Democracy and the Black woman on the poster. A Black feminist critique

Patriarchy, Gender and Peace

Binary Gendering as a Facilitator of Inequality in the Law

Exploring privilege through feminist gender training
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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