
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.


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

Dying for life: Ending maternal mortality?

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

Why global health can offer more on gender

Accelerating achievement of the sustainable development goals

Welcome to Chechnya

Gender and Bodies in Global Health

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

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

Justice denied? Access to justice for victims of sexual violence
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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