
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.


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

AI & Equality – Human Rights Toolbox

What is a Peacekeeper? Social Constructions, Power Relations, and Protection in the context of MINUSMA

Gender Disparities and Replication Effects within the Households. A Cambodian Case Study

Women in Political Leadership and the Glass Labyrinth

Gender training a transformative tool for gender equality

Lagging Behind: Understanding the Slow Progress of Implementing Trans, Non-binary, and Gender Non-conforming Workers’ Rights at the UN in Geneva

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

Gender Equality: Do what we say, not what we do

Gender equality as a resource for peace

What is Gender and Diversity Today?
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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