5
Events
28 April, 2022

To Solve or Not To Solve? That is the Question. Critical Approaches to Advancing and Innovating for Gender Equity and Digital Inclusion

Maison de la Paix - Hybrid
Gender Centre
35
Events
18 August, 2020

Le genre au temps des pandémies

Maison de la Paix
Executive Education
5
News
1st October 2019

Families in a Changing World: Policies to Promote Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women

Gender Centre
516
Publications
Working paper, 26 November, 2019

Women, peace and security an agenda for the Human Rights Council

Gender Centre
Publications
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megdavisconsulting.com

Sara Davis
510
News
20th May 2021

‘Yo crucé el Atlantico sola’: Cuban migrant women negotiating gendered autonomy in Spain

Global Migration Centre and Valerio Simoni
516
News
10th June 2020

Online release of research documentary “Inequality and Conflict. Beyond Us and Them”

Gender Centre
516
Events
6 November, 2019

Overcoming Challenges to Women’s Participation in Sustainable Peacebuilding

Maison de la Paix
Achim Wennmann
5
Teaching
Executive education

Genre et Développement

Executive Education
510
News
8th February 2021

Integration journeys of refugee women in Geneva

Elisabeth Prügl
5
Events
2 May, 2024

Shifting norms while saving faces: Ghanian political elites and double-discourses on LGBT* rights and repression in (inter)national arenas

Maison de la Paix
Gender Centre
58
Research
Research project in progress

Migration and Labor Market Inequality: The Role of Skills, Gender and Trade

Martina Viarengo
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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