
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.


Emergencies in Kenya: Gaps in Gender Mainstreaming

Women’s Voices in the International Judiciary

Can liberal democracy right the wrongs of racial and gender injustices?

Genre et développement FAQ

Women’s Rights in Latin America

How to bring research evidence into policy? Synthesizing strategies of five research projects in low-and middle-income countries

Sexual Violence against Men in Conflict

Advanced Development Macroeconomics: Empirical Research

Act now a call to action for gender equality in global health

“Indispensable to All Working Women and to Mothers in the Home”: Global Labor Standards and the Quest for Social Justice, 1919-2019

Género y Desarrollo FAQ
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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