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Overcoming Challenges to Women’s Participation in Sustainable Peacebuilding

Maison de la Paix
Achim Wennmann
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Women’s Voices in the Media: Changing the World

Maison de la Paix, Geneva
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The Gender Binary in International Sporting Regulations: Legal gender categories as producers of (in)equalities in sports

Maison de la paix
Gender Centre
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Families in a Changing World: Policies to Promote Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women

Gender Centre
516
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Fighting attacks on Gender Studies and sexuality education using human rights instruments

Maison de la Paix
Gender Centre
5
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“Difficult Patients”: Distinction and Inequality of Black Women in Reproductive Care

Gender Centre
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Families in a Changing World

Maison de la Paix
Gender Centre
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Women in Political Leadership and the Glass Labyrinth

Gender Centre
25
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Research Brief: Gendered Impacts of Land Commercialization in Cambodia

Gender Centre
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Childcare, Labor Supply, and Business Development: Experimental Evidence from Uganda

Centre for Finance and Development
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29 June, 2022

Caring in Time of Crisis: Visioning a Feminist Future

Maison de la Paix - Hybrid
Gender Centre
5
News
3rd September 2019

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

Claire Somerville
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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