
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.


A gender analysis @WHA70

Multinational corporations as partners for SDG implementation: evolution from ‘doing no harm’ to ‘doing good’

“Difficult Patients”: Distinction and Inequality of Black Women in Reproductive Care

Caring in Time of Crisis: Visioning a Feminist Future

The challenge of diversity in international courts

DEMETER Gender, Land and the Right to Food

The Healthcare Needs of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) Individuals in the Great Lakes Region of Africa

Agricultural Commercialisation, Gender Equality and the Right to Food. Insights from Cambodia and Ghana

Sexual Violence against Men in Conflict

Contextually engendering conflict analysis

Gender equality as a resource for peace
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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