
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.


Population Control and the Global Politics of Anti-Natalist Violence

What is Gender and Diversity Today?

2020 Geneva Gender Debate

Public Lecture “Women’s Voices in the International Judiciary”

Binary Gendering as a Facilitator of Inequality in the Law

Triple nexus y atención humanitaria de mujeres y niñas en situaciones de crisis

Kick it like a Girl! Young Women Push Themselves Through Football in the African Public Space

Anti-Gender Movements

Gender and International Affairs

African women in films about African colonial and postcolonial conflicts

Sexual Violence against Men in Conflict
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View moreGoal 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