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Research
Research project in progress

DEMETER – Gender, Land, and the Right to Food

Elisabeth Prügl, Fenneke Reysoo and Saba Joshi
5
Events
31 May, 2023

Genre et développement FAQ

Online
Executive Education
516
Events
18 November, 2021

Messy Masculinities : Memory and Military Masculinity during the Lebanese Civil War

Gender Centre
35
Events
27 November, 2023

Dying for life: Ending maternal mortality?

Maison de la Paix - Hybrid
Global Health Centre
58
Events
17 November, 2022

Lagging Behind: Understanding the Slow Progress of Implementing Trans, Non-binary, and Gender Non-conforming Workers’ Rights at the UN in Geneva

Maison de la Paix
Gender Centre
35
News
11th May 2020

Why global health can offer more on gender

Claire Somerville
Publications
Journal article, January 2016

Accelerating achievement of the sustainable development goals

Ilona Kickbusch
516
Events
7 April, 2022

Welcome to Chechnya

Gender Centre
35
Teaching
Academic courses

Gender and Bodies in Global Health

Claire Somerville
35
Events
9 December, 2021

Struggling With Care: Feminist/Queer Insights on COVID-19 as Socio-Ecological Crisis

Gender Centre
News
28th January 2019

Engendering the right to food? International human rights law, food security and the rural woman

Gender Centre
5
News
27th August 2019

Justice denied? Access to justice for victims of sexual violence

Sara Davis
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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