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.
Celebrating International Women’s Day
Taking a Gendered Bottom-up Approach to Peacebuilding
Land Commercialization, Gendered Agrarian Transformation and the Right to Food (DEMETER)
The Business of Women’s Empowerment in Rwanda
Families in a Changing World: Policies to Promote Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
#MeToo and the aid sector: where do we go from here?
Women in Tech | DFS 2030 # part 3
Lagging Behind: Understanding the Slow Progress of Implementing Trans, Non-binary, and Gender Non-conforming Workers’ Rights at the UN in Geneva
Meanings of Empowerment: Black Feminism and Entrepreneurship in Development Programmes in Brazil
A gendered perspective on the pandemic
Gender equality as a resource for peace
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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