
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.


Contextually engendering conflict analysis

Género y Desarrollo FAQ

Accountability for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Humanitarian Settings

The business of women’s empowerment in Rwanda

Blurring the Private/Public Binary : A Home Away from Home for Migrant Domestic Workers in Beirut

How to (not?) know the Ethiopian Woman and her Hidden Desires

2020 Geneva Gender Debate

Population Control and the Global Politics of Anti-Natalist Violence

Fighting attacks on Gender Studies and sexuality education using human rights instruments

Taking a Gendered Bottom-up Approach to Peacebuilding

Women* on the move: gender, forced migration, and peacebuilding
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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