
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

La définition du genre dans le droit pénal international et le droit international relatif aux droits humains

Are women better welfare recipients?

Decolonial Feminist Horizons beyond Development

Untenable dichotomies de-gendering political economy

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

Research Brief: Gendered Impacts of Land Commercialization in Cambodia

Women in Political Leadership and the Glass Labyrinth

Who Pays to Fulfill Health Rights? Aid Eligibility, Accountability and Fiscal Space

Decolonizing Pedagogies: Black feminist reflections on gender, race, faith and seeking solidarity in the academy

Justice and Diversity for the Future
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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