
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.


Can we explain sexual violence by war and culture?

From the Centre to the Margins and Back Again: Women in Agriculture at the ILO

Mr. Gay Syria

Silenced and (sur)Veiled: Inscribing Identity on the Female Migrant Body

Gender Experts and Gender Expertise

Research Brief: Gendered Impacts of Land Commercialization in Cambodia

Gender and International Affairs

Home SOS: Gender, Violence and Survival in Crisis Ordinary Cambodia

Accelerating the United Nation’s 2030 Global Agenda: Why prioritising the gender goal is essential

Can liberal democracy right the wrongs of racial and gender injustices?

Taking Action: NGO responses to Kenya’s Neglected Boy Child Debate
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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