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.
Menstruations, Sharing Experiences from Africa and Asia
Migration, Gender, and family: the moral economy of transnational Cameroonian migrants remittances
Justice and Diversity for the Future
The Needs of Workers and their Families in Ethiopia’s Textile and Garment Sectors
Kick it like a Girl! Young Women Push Themselves Through Football in the African Public Space
Birth Control in the Decolonizing Caribbean: Reproductive Politics and Practice on Four Islands, 1930-1970. New York: Cambridge University Press. (Paperback 2018).
‘Peace starts in the home’: gender-transformative peacebuilding in Colombia
Public Policy, Economic Development and Gender
The business of women’s empowerment in Rwanda
Gender training a transformative tool for gender equality
Research Brief: Gendered Impacts of Land Commercialization in Cambodia
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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