5
Events
2 May, 2024

Shifting norms while saving faces: Ghanian political elites and double-discourses on LGBT* rights and repression in (inter)national arenas

Maison de la Paix
Gender Centre
5
News
9th March 2018

Celebrating International Women’s Day

Gender Centre
35
News
29th April 2021

The rise of non-communicable disease (NCDs) in Mozambique: decolonising gender and global health

Claire Somerville and Gender Centre
510
Events
24 November, 2022

Meanings of Empowerment: Black Feminism and Entrepreneurship in Development Programmes in Brazil

Maison de la Paix
Gender Centre
35
News
30th April 2020

Gender analyses of the COVID-19 pandemic

Gender Centre
35
Events
18–19 October 2023

Women and Children as Sites of Intervention: Past, Present, Future

Maison de la Paix
Nicole Bourbonnais
516
News
31st August 2021

Afghan Women, Serial Wars and Imperial Violence

Julie Billaud
5
Events
17 March, 2020

“Indispensable to All Working Women and to Mothers in the Home”: Global Labor Standards and the Quest for Social Justice, 1919-2019

Maison de la Paix
Gender Centre
5
Events
23 May, 2024

Conversations with Naila Kabeer. Reversed Realities and Feminist Economic Strategies for Today’s World

Maison de la Paix
Gender Centre
516
News
29th November 2021

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

Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy
516
News
15th September 2021

Pathways and obstacles to achieve a more diverse, democratic, and inclusive international judiciary

Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy
5
Events
5 March, 2019

Women Businesses in Developing Countries

Maison de la Paix
Gender Centre
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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

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Target 5.1

End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere

Target 5.2

Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation

Target 5.3

Eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation

Target 5.4

Recognize and value unpaid care and domestic work through the provision of public services, infrastructure and social protection policies and the promotion of shared responsibility within the household and the family as nationally appropriate

Target 5.5

Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life

Target 5.6

Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights as agreed in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences

Target 5.a

Undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, financial services, inheritance and natural resources, in accordance with national laws

Target 5.b

Enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology, to promote the empowerment of women

Target 5.c

Adopt and strengthen sound policies and enforceable legislation for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls at all levels