
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.


The Gender Dimensions of Conflict

Gender analyses of the COVID-19 pandemic

Research Frontiers in Gender and Sustainable Peace

A gendered perspective on the pandemic

‘Yo crucé el Atlantico sola’: Cuban migrant women negotiating gendered autonomy in Spain

What Counts? Women in Sport

Sexual Violence: A New Weapon of War

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

Justice denied? Access to justice for victims of sexual violence

Advocacy in International Affairs Q&A

Families in a Changing World: Policies to Promote Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
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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