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

The Gender Responsiveness of Social Marketing Interventions Focused on Neglected Tropical Diseases

Land Commercialization, Gendered Agrarian Transformation and the Right to Food (DEMETER)

Sexual Violence: A New Weapon of War

Advanced Development Macroeconomics: Empirical Research

Pathways and obstacles to achieve a more diverse, democratic, and inclusive international judiciary

World Refugee Day

Género y Desarrollo FAQ

‘Peace is in our hands’. Women take the lead to rebuild trust

Perceptions of Power: Closing the Gender Gap in the Digital Sphere

Feminist Critique-ability in Authoritarian Times
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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