
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.


Women’s Situation Rooms

The challenge of diversity in international courts

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

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

Mr. Gay Syria

Dying for life: Ending maternal mortality?

Introduction Gender Experts and Gender Expertise

Decolonial Feminist Horizons beyond Development

Kick it like a Girl! Young Women Push Themselves Through Football in the African Public Space

A Gendered Perspective on the Pandemic

A Discursive Spectrum: The Narrative of Kenya’s “Neglected” Boy Child
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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