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.
The business of women’s empowerment in Rwanda
Research Frontiers in Gender and Sustainable Peace
Sexual Violence, Public Domain, and Disorders of Democracy
Collaborationist Collages. Methodological Reflections inspired by Feminist Materialism
An Innovation Camp to Promote Feminism and Women’s Leadership in International Law and Policy
Gendering transitional justice: a racialised construction of victimhood in post-revolutionary Tunisia
Engendering the right to food? International human rights law, food security and the rural woman
Rural Cambodian women seeking access to land and to justice
Jobs that Work for Women. How Does The Rural Labour Market Shape Gender Relations?
Taking Action: NGO responses to Kenya’s Neglected Boy Child Debate
The Uncounted: Visibility and the Politics of Data in Global Health
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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