5
Research
Research project in progress

Engaging women in mobile money markets

Centre for Finance and Development
516
News
18th November 2019

Taking a Gendered Bottom-up Approach to Peacebuilding

Elisabeth Prügl and Christelle Rigual
516
Events
21 May, 2019

Fighting attacks on Gender Studies and sexuality education using human rights instruments

Maison de la Paix
Gender Centre
35
News
29th April 2021

The rise of non-communicable disease (NCDs) in Mozambique: decolonising gender and global health

Claire Somerville and Gender Centre
5
News
5th March 2019

Gender Experts and Gender Expertise

Gender Centre and Elisabeth Prügl
5
News
3rd September 2019

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

Claire Somerville
5
Events
5 March, 2019

Women Businesses in Developing Countries

Maison de la Paix
Gender Centre
5
News
8th April 2020

Enhancing the protection of sex workers

Gender Centre
5
Research
Research project in progress

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

Gender Centre
510
News
20th May 2021

‘Yo crucé el Atlantico sola’: Cuban migrant women negotiating gendered autonomy in Spain

Global Migration Centre and Valerio Simoni
5
Events
4 August, 2020

Favorisez l’intégration du genre dans le monde du développement

Executive Education
5
Events
1 April, 2021

How to (not?) know the Ethiopian Woman and her Hidden Desires

Gender Centre
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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

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Target 5.1

End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere

Target 5.2

Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation

Target 5.3

Eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation

Target 5.4

Recognize and value unpaid care and domestic work through the provision of public services, infrastructure and social protection policies and the promotion of shared responsibility within the household and the family as nationally appropriate

Target 5.5

Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life

Target 5.6

Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights as agreed in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences

Target 5.a

Undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, financial services, inheritance and natural resources, in accordance with national laws

Target 5.b

Enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology, to promote the empowerment of women

Target 5.c

Adopt and strengthen sound policies and enforceable legislation for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls at all levels