
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.


Diversity, Inclusion, and the Issue of Racism Q&A

Perceptions of Power: Closing the Gender Gap in the Digital Sphere

Seeing Women’s Labor: The Problem of Domestic Work at the ILO

Accelerating the United Nation’s 2030 Global Agenda: Why prioritising the gender goal is essential

Integration journeys of refugee women in Geneva

Taking Action: NGO responses to Kenya’s Neglected Boy Child Debate

Rethinking Representation on the International Bench: Democracy, Inclusion and Legitimacy

What Counts? Women in Sport

Applying Decolonial Critique and Praxis to Publishing

Kick it like a Girl! Young Women Push Themselves Through Football in the African Public Space

Agricultural Commercialisation, Gender Equality and the Right to Food. Insights from Cambodia and Ghana
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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