35
Events
27 November, 2023

Dying for life: Ending maternal mortality?

Maison de la Paix - Hybrid
Global Health Centre
35
Events
11 March, 2021

Belly of the Beast

Gender Centre
Publications
Website

DEMETER Gender, Land and the Right to Food

Fenneke Reysoo
5
News
19th November 2019

The (Gendered) Violence among Us

Gender Centre
510
Events
24 November, 2022

Meanings of Empowerment: Black Feminism and Entrepreneurship in Development Programmes in Brazil

Maison de la Paix
Gender Centre
35
Research
Research project in progress

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

Nicole Bourbonnais
5
Events
5 May, 2022

“Difficult Patients”: Distinction and Inequality of Black Women in Reproductive Care

Gender Centre
5
Events
28 October, 2021

Narratives of Neglect: Kenya’s Boy Child and the Gendered Language of Grievance

Isabel Pike and Gender Centre
Events
25 January, 2022

Advocacy in International Affairs Q&A

Executive Education and Davide Rodogno
510
News
7th November 2023

Gendering Survival from the Margins

Gender Centre and Elisabeth Prügl
5
Events
19 September, 2019

Families in a Changing World

Maison de la Paix
Gender Centre
516
Events
18 November, 2021

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

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