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.
From the Centre to the Margins and Back Again: Women in Agriculture at the ILO
Narratives of Neglect: Kenya’s Boy Child and the Gendered Language of Grievance
Engaging women in mobile money markets
Engendering the right to food? International human rights law, food security and the rural woman
“Indispensable to All Working Women and to Mothers in the Home”: Global Labor Standards and the Quest for Social Justice, 1919-2019
Does International Law Help Eradicate Domestic Violence? Assessing the Impact of International Legal Instruments on Domestic Policies
Belly of the Beast
What is Gender and Diversity Today?
Students Present “Blue Peace” Project at World Conservation Congress
Diversity, Inclusion, and the Issue of Racism Q&A
Intersecting liminalities in forced displacement: drivers and consequences of transactional sex
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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