5
Events
17 May, 2018

Politics of Gender Expertise: Debating Women’s Rights and Cultural Norms

Maison de la Paix, Geneva
Gender Centre
5
News
9th March 2018

Celebrating International Women’s Day

Gender Centre
516
News
18th November 2019

Taking a Gendered Bottom-up Approach to Peacebuilding

Elisabeth Prügl and Christelle Rigual
25
Research
Research project in progress

Land Commercialization, Gendered Agrarian Transformation and the Right to Food (DEMETER)

Christophe Golay
5
News
19th March 2018

The Business of Women’s Empowerment in Rwanda

Gender Centre
5
News
1st October 2019

Families in a Changing World: Policies to Promote Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women

Gender Centre
5
News
27th March 2018

#MeToo and the aid sector: where do we go from here?

Gender Centre
5
Events
15 February, 2021

Women in Tech | DFS 2030 # part 3

Centre for Trade and Economic Integration
58
Events
17 November, 2022

Lagging Behind: Understanding the Slow Progress of Implementing Trans, Non-binary, and Gender Non-conforming Workers’ Rights at the UN in Geneva

Maison de la Paix
Gender Centre
510
Events
24 November, 2022

Meanings of Empowerment: Black Feminism and Entrepreneurship in Development Programmes in Brazil

Maison de la Paix
Gender Centre
35
Publications
Journal article, 1 June, 2020

A gendered perspective on the pandemic

Elisabeth Prügl
516
News
20th June 2019

Gender equality as a resource for peace

Gender Centre
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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