
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.


What Counts? Women in Sport

Who Pays to Fulfill Health Rights? Aid Eligibility, Accountability and Fiscal Space

Gender Experts and Gender Expertise

Genre et développement FAQ

The Uncounted: Visibility and the Politics of Data in Global Health

Anti-Gender Movements

Taking a Gendered Bottom-up Approach to Peacebuilding

Welcome to Chechnya

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

Overcoming Challenges to Women’s Participation in Sustainable Peacebuilding

Gender expertise in global governance contesting the boundaries of a field
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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