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.
Child Care for Childhood and Business Development
Fighting attacks on Gender Studies and sexuality education using human rights instruments
Rural Cambodian women seeking access to land and to justice
Accountability for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Humanitarian Settings
Rethinking Representation in the International Bench: Democracy, Inclusion, and Legitimacy
Shifting norms while saving faces: Ghanian political elites and double-discourses on LGBT* rights and repression in (inter)national arenas
Justice and Diversity for the Future
Women’s Voices in the Media: Changing the World
Intersecting liminalities in forced displacement: drivers and consequences of transactional sex
AI & Equality – Human Rights Toolbox
“Difficult Patients”: Distinction and Inequality of Black Women in Reproductive Care
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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