
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.


Taking a Gendered Bottom-up Approach to Peacebuilding

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

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

Gender Experts and Gender Expertise

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

Women Businesses in Developing Countries

Enhancing the protection of sex workers

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

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

Favorisez l’intégration du genre dans le monde du développement

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