516
Events
21 February, 2019

Of dangerous ex-combatants, normal citizens and queering peacebuilders from the home: a feminist reading of ground-up constructions of ‘post-conflict’ Colombia in everyday reintegration practices

Maison de la Paix
Gender Centre
510
News
8th February 2021

Integration journeys of refugee women in Geneva

Elisabeth Prügl
516
Events
4 May, 2021

Taking Action: NGO responses to Kenya’s Neglected Boy Child Debate

Isabel Pike
5
Events
5 December, 2019

The Gender Binary in International Sporting Regulations: Legal gender categories as producers of (in)equalities in sports

Maison de la paix
Gender Centre
Events
22–24 May 2024

Remeasuring Self and Society after Empire: The Human Sciences in Decolonization

Maison de la Paix
Gender Centre
Events
3 March, 2022

The “Activist Client” : How Poor Voters Shape Democracy and Accountability in Urban India

Gender Centre
News
29th April 2020

Contact Tracing Apps: Extra Risks for Women and Marginalized Groups

Sara Davis and Global Health Centre
5
Events
8 October, 2019

What is Gender and Diversity Today?

Maison de la Paix
Elisabeth Prügl
5
News
28th September 2020

Are women better welfare recipients?

Centre for Finance and Development
516
Events
6 November, 2019

Overcoming Challenges to Women’s Participation in Sustainable Peacebuilding

Maison de la Paix
Achim Wennmann
5
Events
23 May, 2024

Conversations with Naila Kabeer. Reversed Realities and Feminist Economic Strategies for Today’s World

Maison de la Paix
Gender Centre
35
Publications
Journal article, 1 June, 2020

A gendered perspective on the pandemic

Elisabeth Prügl
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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