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.
Accelerating the United Nation’s 2030 Global Agenda: Why prioritising the gender goal is essential
Advanced Development Macroeconomics: Empirical Research
Women’s Situation Rooms
Forced sterilisations and the violence of the everyday
“Indispensable to All Working Women and to Mothers in the Home”: Global Labor Standards and the Quest for Social Justice, 1919-2019
Accelerating the United Nation’s 2030 Global Agenda: Why prioritising the gender goal is essential
Who Pays to Fulfill Health Rights? Aid Eligibility, Accountability and Fiscal Space
Gendered Security Strategies: How Women Matter in the Policy and Practice of “Countering Violent Extremism”
Masked Heroines? Building Resilience Begins with a Gender-Equitable Health Workforce
Climate Indicators and Sustainable Development: Demonstrating the Interconnections
What is a Peacekeeper? Social Constructions, Power Relations, and Protection in the context of MINUSMA
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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