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.
From warriors to local peacebuilders? Lessons from reintegration processes in post-conflict settings through the voices of former (female) combatants
The “Activist Client” : How Poor Voters Shape Democracy and Accountability in Urban India
Reflections on Decolonising the Transnational Feminist Analytic
Unsafe in Your Own Home: Violence against Women and the Politics of Domination
Enhancing the protection of sex workers
“We don’t see female vaccinators”. Gender in Everyday Peace in Afghanistan
“Confrontation is from Mars, Cooperation is from Venus”. Gendering Defence Cooperation in Europe
A Discursive Spectrum: The Narrative of Kenya’s “Neglected” Boy Child
Meanings of Empowerment: Black Feminism and Entrepreneurship in Development Programmes in Brazil
Meanings of Empowerment: Black Feminism and Entrepreneurship in Development Programmes in Brazil
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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