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.
Gendering Survival from the Margins
La définition du genre dans le droit pénal international et le droit international relatif aux droits humains
#MeToo and the aid sector: where do we go from here?
Women* on the move: gender, forced migration, and peacebuilding
Dying for life: Ending maternal mortality?
Decolonising the Curriculum and Racism in Academia
Why global health can offer more on gender
Overcoming Challenges to Women’s Participation in Sustainable Peacebuilding
Gendering transitional justice: a racialised construction of victimhood in post-revolutionary Tunisia
The business of women’s empowerment in Rwanda
Women Businesses in Developing Countries
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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