35
Teaching
Academic courses

Gender and Bodies in Global Health

Claire Somerville
Events
17 October, 2017

WHS 2017: Equitable Access to Universal Health Coverage & Care

Berlin
Global Health Centre
5
News
8th April 2020

Enhancing the protection of sex workers

Gender Centre
5
Research
Research project in progress

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

Gender Centre
25
News
30th May 2018

Research Brief: Gendered Impacts of Land Commercialization in Cambodia

Gender Centre
35
Publications
Journal article, April 2020

Why global health can offer more on gender

Claire Somerville
5
Events
21 November, 2019

Women’s Rights in Latin America

Maison de la paix
Nicole Bourbonnais
5
Events
9 April, 2020

Blurring the Private/Public Binary : A Home Away from Home for Migrant Domestic Workers in Beirut

Maison de la Paix
Gender Centre
516
Events
11 October, 2023

Triple nexus y atención humanitaria de mujeres y niñas en situaciones de crisis

Online
Executive Education
35
Research
Research project in progress

The Gospel of Birth Control: Prophets, Patients, and the Transnational Family Planning Movement

Nicole Bourbonnais
35
Publications
Journal article, 12 September, 2019

“I do all I can but I still fail them”: Health system barriers to providing Option B+ to pregnant and lactating women in Malawi

Claire Somerville
5
News
13th June 2022

An Innovation Camp to Promote Feminism and Women’s Leadership in International Law and Policy

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