
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.


Les enjeux de genre en santé communautaire : regards croisés Afrique – Amérique Latine

Fair Play: Gender Balance at Home and at Work

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

Celebrating International Women’s Day

DEMETER Gender, Land and the Right to Food

Messy Masculinities : Memory and Military Masculinity during the Lebanese Civil War

Gender Equality: Do what we say, not what we do

A gendered perspective on the pandemic

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

Multinational corporations as partners for SDG implementation: evolution from ‘doing no harm’ to ‘doing good’

Decolonising the Curriculum and Racism in Academia
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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