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.
Masked Heroines? Building Resilience Begins with a Gender-Equitable Health Workforce
Shifting norms while saving faces: Ghanian political elites and double-discourses on LGBT* rights and repression in (inter)national arenas
Engendering the right to food? International human rights law, food security and the rural woman
Advocacy in International Affairs Q&A
Decolonizing Pedagogies: Black feminist reflections on gender, race, faith and seeking solidarity in the academy
World Refugee Day
Belly of the Beast
Le genre au temps des pandémies
Fighting attacks on Gender Studies and sexuality education using human rights instruments
Can liberal democracy right the wrongs of racial and gender injustices?
Perceptions of Power: Closing the Gender Gap in the Digital Sphere
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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