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.
Land Commercialization, Gendered Agrarian Transformation and the Right to Food (DEMETER)
The Gender Binary in International Sporting Regulations: Legal gender categories as producers of (in)equalities in sports
Shifting the paradigm for gender equity in health innovation: transforming research and development to better meet women’s needs
Rural Cambodian women seeking access to land and to justice
Performative technologies: agricultural research for development and gender
Afghan Women and the Global War on Terror
Unsafe in Your Own Home: Violence against Women and the Politics of Domination
A Gendered Perspective on the Pandemic
Lagging Behind: Understanding the Slow Progress of Implementing Trans, Non-binary, and Gender Non-conforming Workers’ Rights at the UN in Geneva
The Gender Responsiveness of Social Marketing Interventions Focused on Neglected Tropical Diseases
Gender Experts and Gender Expertise
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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