
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.


Gender and Bodies in Global Health

Politics of Gender Expertise: Debating Women’s Rights and Cultural Norms

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

Women’s Rights in Latin America

Reflections on Decolonising the Transnational Feminist Analytic

Migration, Gender, and family: the moral economy of transnational Cameroonian migrants remittances

Sexual Violence against Men in Conflict

Integration journeys of refugee women in Geneva

The Refugee Status Determination of Transgender Asylum-Seekers: a Queer Critique.

Shifting norms while saving faces: Ghanian political elites and double-discourses on LGBT* rights and repression in (inter)national arenas

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