
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.


Migration, Gender, and family: the moral economy of transnational Cameroonian migrants remittances

Engaging women in mobile money markets

Gender Theory in Practice

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

WHS 2017: Equitable Access to Universal Health Coverage & Care

Sociology of Gender

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

La rebelión de las flores

World Refugee Day

Underground women miners: Space “invaders” and gendered subjectivities in the making

Gender in Peacebuilding
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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