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.
Gender Theory in Practice
We need to talk about sexual violence against men
The Gospel of Birth Control: Prophets, Patients, and the Transnational Family Planning Movement
Conversations with Naila Kabeer. Reversed Realities and Feminist Economic Strategies for Today’s World
Research Frontiers in Gender and Sustainable Peace
African women in films about African colonial and postcolonial conflicts
The (Gendered) Violence among Us
Mapping ‘Care Chains’ in Export Horticulture in Senegal: Why does it matter to understand Labour Migration and Social Reproduction?
Engendering the right to food? International human rights law, food security and the rural woman
Land Commercialization, Gendered Agrarian Transformation and the Right to Food (DEMETER)
Belly of the Beast
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View moreGoal 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