
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.


Genre et développement FAQ

The Visible Woman? Power, Legal Knowledge and Gender Discourse at the International Monetary Fund

From the Centre to the Margins and Back Again: Women in Agriculture at the ILO

Favorisez l’intégration du genre dans le monde du développement

Intersecting liminalities in forced displacement: drivers and consequences of transactional sex

The challenge of diversity in international courts

Time to Look at Girls: Adolescent Girls Migration and Development

Fair Play: Gender Balance at Home and at Work

AI & Equality – Human Rights Toolbox

Silenced and (sur)Veiled: Inscribing Identity on the Female Migrant Body

Taking a Gendered Bottom-up Approach to Peacebuilding
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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