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.
Women, Peace and Security. An Agenda for the Human Rights Council
Fighting attacks on Gender Studies and sexuality education using human rights instruments
Act now a call to action for gender equality in global health
Engendering the right to food? International human rights law, food security and the rural woman
“I do all I can but I still fail them”: Health system barriers to providing Option B+ to pregnant and lactating women in Malawi
Advanced Development Macroeconomics: Empirical Research
Disruption, changes, and adaptation
The Gospel of Birth Control: Prophets, Patients, and the Transnational Family Planning Movement
Pathways and obstacles to achieve a more diverse, democratic, and inclusive international judiciary
Women’s Voices in the International Judiciary
Research Brief: Gendered Impacts of Land Commercialization in Cambodia
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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