
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.


‘Peace starts in the home’: gender-transformative peacebuilding in Colombia

Binary Gendering as a Facilitator of Inequality in the Law

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

Messy Masculinities : Memory and Military Masculinity during the Lebanese Civil War

African women in films about African colonial and postcolonial conflicts

Childcare, Labor Supply, and Business Development: Experimental Evidence from Uganda

Patriarchy, Gender and Peace

Decolonizing Pedagogies: Black feminist reflections on gender, race, faith and seeking solidarity in the academy

Kick it like a Girl! Young Women Push Themselves Through Football in the African Public Space

Intersecting liminalities in forced displacement: drivers and consequences of transactional sex

Contextually engendering conflict analysis
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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