35
Events
28 May, 2021

Women Power, Politics, and the Pandemic: Celebrating women’s leadership

Global Health Centre
5
News
8th April 2020

Enhancing the protection of sex workers

Gender Centre
516
News
19th November 2020

Can liberal democracy right the wrongs of racial and gender injustices?

Shalini Randeria and Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy
5
News
13th June 2022

An Innovation Camp to Promote Feminism and Women’s Leadership in International Law and Policy

Gender Centre
516
Events
9 December, 2020

Mr. Gay Syria

Gender Centre and Nicole Bourbonnais
5
Events
21 September, 2023

Género y Desarrollo FAQ

Online
Executive Education
5
Events
7 December, 2017

The business of women’s empowerment in Rwanda

Maison de la Paix, Geneva
Gender Centre
5
Events
8 October, 2020

Blurring the Private/Public Binary : A Home Away from Home for Migrant Domestic Workers in Beirut

Gender Centre
5
Teaching
Academic courses

Gender and Development: From Theory to Practice

Isabel Pike
5
Events
29 May, 2018

Women’s Voices in the Media: Changing the World

Maison de la Paix, Geneva
Gender Centre
58
Events
22 May, 2023

Seeing Women’s Labor: The Problem of Domestic Work at the ILO

Maison de la Paix
Gender Centre
58
Research
Research project in progress

The Needs of Workers and their Families in Ethiopia’s Textile and Garment Sectors

Oliver Jütersonke, Alexandre Freire and Centre on Conflict, Development & Peacebuilding
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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

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Target 5.1

End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere

Target 5.2

Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation

Target 5.3

Eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation

Target 5.4

Recognize and value unpaid care and domestic work through the provision of public services, infrastructure and social protection policies and the promotion of shared responsibility within the household and the family as nationally appropriate

Target 5.5

Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life

Target 5.6

Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights as agreed in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences

Target 5.a

Undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, financial services, inheritance and natural resources, in accordance with national laws

Target 5.b

Enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology, to promote the empowerment of women

Target 5.c

Adopt and strengthen sound policies and enforceable legislation for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls at all levels