5
Events
17 May, 2018

Politics of Gender Expertise: Debating Women’s Rights and Cultural Norms

Maison de la Paix, Geneva
Gender Centre
58
Events
17 November, 2022

Lagging Behind: Understanding the Slow Progress of Implementing Trans, Non-binary, and Gender Non-conforming Workers’ Rights at the UN in Geneva

Maison de la Paix
Gender Centre
516
Events
9 December, 2020

Mr. Gay Syria

Gender Centre and Nicole Bourbonnais
516
Events
18 November, 2021

Messy Masculinities : Memory and Military Masculinity during the Lebanese Civil War

Gender Centre
5
Events
8 October, 2020

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

Gender Centre
Events
9 February, 2023

Advocacy in International Affairs Q&A

Online
Executive Education, Davide Rodogno and Matteo Guidotti
516
Events
14 October, 2021

Breaking the Odds: History of women leadership in international organisations

Maison de la Paix
Gender Centre
5
News
28th September 2020

Are women better welfare recipients?

Centre for Finance and Development
516
News
3rd September 2021

Justice and Diversity for the Future

Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy
510
News
7th November 2023

Gendering Survival from the Margins

Gender Centre and Elisabeth Prügl
5
Publications
Journal article, 1 February, 2019

Gender expertise in global governance contesting the boundaries of a field

Elisabeth Prügl
News
11th July 2018

We need to talk about sexual violence against men

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