5
Events
7 December, 2022

Fair Play: Gender Balance at Home and at Work

Maison de la Paix
Centre for Trade and Economic Integration
5
Events
8 December, 2022

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

Maison de la Paix
Gender Centre
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
25
Research
Research project in progress

Land Commercialization, Gendered Agrarian Transformation and the Right to Food (DEMETER)

Adriana Bessa
5
Events
8 October, 2021

Gender Theory in Practice

Gender Centre
516
News
18th November 2019

Taking a Gendered Bottom-up Approach to Peacebuilding

Elisabeth Prügl and Christelle Rigual
5
Publications
Journal article, 1 February, 2019

Exploring privilege through feminist gender training

Gender Centre
5
News
9th March 2018

Celebrating International Women’s Day

Gender Centre
Events
17 October, 2017

WHS 2017: Equitable Access to Universal Health Coverage & Care

Berlin
Global Health Centre
35
Research
Research project in progress

The Gospel of Birth Control: Prophets, Patients, and the Transnational Family Planning Movement

Nicole Bourbonnais
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
5
Research
Research project in progress

Kick it like a Girl! Young Women Push Themselves Through Football in the African Public Space

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