5
Events
8 December, 2022

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

Maison de la Paix
Gender Centre
258
News
24th June 2019

From the Centre to the Margins and Back Again: Women in Agriculture at the ILO

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
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Research
Research project in progress

Engaging women in mobile money markets

Centre for Finance and Development
News
28th January 2019

Engendering the right to food? International human rights law, food security and the rural woman

Gender Centre
5
Events
17 March, 2020

“Indispensable to All Working Women and to Mothers in the Home”: Global Labor Standards and the Quest for Social Justice, 1919-2019

Maison de la Paix
Gender Centre
5
Events
3 December, 2020

Does International Law Help Eradicate Domestic Violence? Assessing the Impact of International Legal Instruments on Domestic Policies

Gender Centre
35
Events
11 March, 2021

Belly of the Beast

Gender Centre
5
Events
8 October, 2019

What is Gender and Diversity Today?

Maison de la Paix
Elisabeth Prügl
News
6th December 2021

Students Present “Blue Peace” Project at World Conservation Congress

Claire Somerville
510
Events
9 August, 2022

Diversity, Inclusion, and the Issue of Racism Q&A

Executive Education
5
Events
27 April, 2023

Intersecting liminalities in forced displacement: drivers and consequences of transactional sex

Maison de la Paix
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