
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.


Sexual Violence against Men in Conflict

The Gender Binary in International Sporting Regulations: Legal gender categories as producers of (in)equalities in sports

Gender training a transformative tool for gender equality

Multinational corporations as partners for SDG implementation: evolution from ‘doing no harm’ to ‘doing good’

Budget et égalité de genre : entre nerf de la guerre et guerre des nerfs

The challenge of diversity in international courts

Collaborationist Collages. Methodological Reflections inspired by Feminist Materialism

COVID-19: Les inégalités de genre

Overcoming Challenges to Women’s Participation in Sustainable Peacebuilding

Rural Women and Food Security

Gender expertise in global governance contesting the boundaries of a field
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View moreGoal 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