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.
Celebrating International Women’s Day
The rise of non-communicable disease (NCDs) in Mozambique: decolonising gender and global health
Meanings of Empowerment: Black Feminism and Entrepreneurship in Development Programmes in Brazil
Gender analyses of the COVID-19 pandemic
Women and Children as Sites of Intervention: Past, Present, Future
Afghan Women, Serial Wars and Imperial Violence
“Indispensable to All Working Women and to Mothers in the Home”: Global Labor Standards and the Quest for Social Justice, 1919-2019
Conversations with Naila Kabeer. Reversed Realities and Feminist Economic Strategies for Today’s World
Rethinking Representation on the International Bench: Democracy, Inclusion and Legitimacy
Pathways and obstacles to achieve a more diverse, democratic, and inclusive international judiciary
Women Businesses in Developing Countries
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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