Events
22–24 May 2024

Remeasuring Self and Society after Empire: The Human Sciences in Decolonization

Maison de la Paix
Gender Centre
35
News
21st May 2021

Gender Equality: Do what we say, not what we do

Global Health Centre
5
Events
20 November, 2023

La rebelión de las flores

Maison de la Paix
Gender Centre
5
Events
14 April, 2022

“Confrontation is from Mars, Cooperation is from Venus”. Gendering Defence Cooperation in Europe

Gender Centre
516
Events
7 October, 2021

Reflections on Decolonising the Transnational Feminist Analytic

Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy
58
Events
15 March, 2018

Jobs that Work for Women. How Does The Rural Labour Market Shape Gender Relations?

Maison de la Paix, Geneva
Gender Centre
5
Events
8 October, 2021

Gender Theory in Practice

Gender Centre
516
Events
21 May, 2019

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

Maison de la Paix
Gender Centre
516
News
17th January 2022

The challenge of diversity in international courts

Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy
516
Events
21 February, 2019

Of dangerous ex-combatants, normal citizens and queering peacebuilders from the home: a feminist reading of ground-up constructions of ‘post-conflict’ Colombia in everyday reintegration practices

Maison de la Paix
Gender Centre
5
Publications
Book, 2019

Gender training a transformative tool for gender equality

Gender Centre
5
Events
11 July, 2024

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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