
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 Development: From Theory to Practice

What Counts? Women in Sport

Gendered Security Strategies: How Women Matter in the Policy and Practice of “Countering Violent Extremism”

Gender and everyday peacebuilding: Insights from Indonesia and Nigeria

How to bring research evidence into policy? Synthesizing strategies of five research projects in low-and middle-income countries

Agricultural Commercialisation, Gender Equality and the Right to Food. Insights from Cambodia and Ghana

Engendering the right to food? International human rights law, food security and the rural woman

Gender and Bodies in Global Health

Seeing Women’s Labor: The Problem of Domestic Work at the ILO

Rural Cambodian women seeking access to land and to justice

The Gender Centre’s EQUALS-EU Project: Bridging the Digital Gender Divide
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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