
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.


Gendered Security Strategies: How Women Matter in the Policy and Practice of “Countering Violent Extremism”

Mapping ‘Care Chains’ in Export Horticulture in Senegal: Why does it matter to understand Labour Migration and Social Reproduction?

Women’s Rights in Latin America

Public Lecture “Women’s Voices in the International Judiciary”

The post-political link between gender and climate change: the case of the Nationally Determined Contributions Support Programme

Time to Look at Girls: Adolescent Girls Migration and Development

DEMETER Gender, Land and the Right to Food

Can we explain sexual violence by war and culture?

Divorce, Living Arrangements, and Material Well-being during the Transition to Adulthood in Rural Malawi

Decolonizing Pedagogies: Black feminist reflections on gender, race, faith and seeking solidarity in the academy

Gendering Survival from the Margins
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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