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.
Land Commercialization, Gendered Agrarian Transformation and the Right to Food (DEMETER)
Gendered Security Strategies: How Women Matter in the Policy and Practice of “Countering Violent Extremism”
Women, Peace and Security. An Agenda for the Human Rights Council
Anti-Gender Movements
Fighting attacks on Gender Studies and sexuality education using human rights instruments
From warriors to local peacebuilders? Lessons from reintegration processes in post-conflict settings through the voices of former (female) combatants
Contextually engendering conflict analysis
To Solve or Not To Solve? That is the Question. Critical Approaches to Advancing and Innovating for Gender Equity and Digital Inclusion
Shifting the paradigm for gender equity in health innovation: transforming research and development to better meet women’s needs
Emergencies in Kenya: Gaps in Gender Mainstreaming
“Confrontation is from Mars, Cooperation is from Venus”. Gendering Defence Cooperation in Europe
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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