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.
Integration journeys of refugee women in Geneva
Accelerating achievement of the sustainable development goals
Belly of the Beast
Families in a Changing World
Seeing Women’s Labor: The Problem of Domestic Work at the ILO
Women’s Voices in the International Judiciary
Intersecting liminalities in forced displacement: drivers and consequences of transactional sex
Gender politics of and for Kayambi women: house and chakra as public spaces
Silenced and (sur)Veiled: Inscribing Identity on the Female Migrant Body
Messy Masculinities : Memory and Military Masculinity during the Lebanese Civil War
Women Businesses in Developing Countries
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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