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.
Research Brief: Gendered Impacts of Land Commercialization in Cambodia
Enhancing the protection of sex workers
Decolonial Feminist Horizons beyond Development
Sexual Violence, Public Domain, and Disorders of Democracy
Birth Control in the Decolonizing Caribbean: Reproductive Politics and Practice on Four Islands, 1930-1970. New York: Cambridge University Press. (Paperback 2018).
How to bring research evidence into policy? Synthesizing strategies of five research projects in low-and middle-income countries
Women’s Voices in the International Judiciary
Gender Experts and Gender Expertise
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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