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Global Impact of Roe v Wade being Overturned

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Taking a Gendered Bottom-up Approach to Peacebuilding

Elisabeth Prügl and Christelle Rigual
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PhD thesis in progress

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Christina Atekmangoh
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Events
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Decolonial Feminist Horizons beyond Development

Maison de la Paix
Gender Centre
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Events
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Caring in Time of Crisis: Visioning a Feminist Future

Maison de la Paix - Hybrid
Gender Centre
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News
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Accelerating the United Nation’s 2030 Global Agenda: Why prioritising the gender goal is essential

Claire Somerville
35
News
28th July 2020

A Gendered Perspective on the Pandemic

Elisabeth Prügl and Gender Centre
35
Events
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Dying for life: Ending maternal mortality?

Maison de la Paix - Hybrid
Global Health Centre
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
35
Events
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Belly of the Beast

Gender Centre
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“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
Events
12 October, 2020

Democracy and the Black woman on the poster. A Black feminist critique

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