
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.


International Gender Champions

Cohesion Project

The Gender Responsiveness of Social Marketing Interventions Focused on Neglected Tropical Diseases

Women, peace and security an agenda for the Human Rights Council

What is a Peacekeeper? Social Constructions, Power Relations, and Protection in the context of MINUSMA

Feminist Critique-ability in Authoritarian Times

Why global health can offer more on gender

Enhancing the protection of sex workers

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

Are women better welfare recipients?

“Difficult Patients”: Distinction and Inequality of Black Women in Reproductive Care
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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