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.
WHS 2017: Equitable Access to Universal Health Coverage & Care
Enhancing the protection of sex workers
Kick it like a Girl! Young Women Push Themselves Through Football in the African Public Space
Research Brief: Gendered Impacts of Land Commercialization in Cambodia
Why global health can offer more on gender
Women’s Rights in Latin America
Blurring the Private/Public Binary : A Home Away from Home for Migrant Domestic Workers in Beirut
Triple nexus y atención humanitaria de mujeres y niñas en situaciones de crisis
The Gospel of Birth Control: Prophets, Patients, and the Transnational Family Planning Movement
“I do all I can but I still fail them”: Health system barriers to providing Option B+ to pregnant and lactating women in Malawi
An Innovation Camp to Promote Feminism and Women’s Leadership in International Law and Policy
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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