Events
9 November, 2017

Action Days for the SDGs – SDGs and Impact Investing

Auditorium Jacques Freymond, Geneva
Executive Education
25
News
30th May 2018

Research Brief: Gendered Impacts of Land Commercialization in Cambodia

Gender Centre
5
News
8th April 2020

Enhancing the protection of sex workers

Gender Centre
5
Events
26 October, 2023

Decolonial Feminist Horizons beyond Development

Maison de la Paix
Gender Centre
516
Events
2 May, 2019

Sexual Violence, Public Domain, and Disorders of Democracy

Maison de la Paix
Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy
35
Publications
Book, 2016

Birth Control in the Decolonizing Caribbean: Reproductive Politics and Practice on Four Islands, 1930-1970. New York: Cambridge University Press. (Paperback 2018).

Nicole Bourbonnais
510
News
3rd May 2021

How to bring research evidence into policy? Synthesizing strategies of five research projects in low-and middle-income countries

Gender Centre and Claire Somerville
516
News
4th February 2021

Women’s Voices in the International Judiciary

Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy and Andrew Clapham
5
News
5th March 2019

Gender Experts and Gender Expertise

Gender Centre and Elisabeth Prügl
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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