
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, peace and security an agenda for the Human Rights Council

What is Gender and Diversity Today?

Contact Tracing Apps: Extra Risks for Women and Marginalized Groups

Who Pays to Fulfill Health Rights? Aid Eligibility, Accountability and Fiscal Space

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

Sexual Violence: A New Weapon of War

My Life as a Judge on the ICTR and ICC: Did I Make a Difference?

Blurring the Private/Public Binary : A Home Away from Home for Migrant Domestic Workers in Beirut

Time to Look at Girls: Adolescent Girls Migration and Development

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

The rise of non-communicable disease (NCDs) in Mozambique: decolonising gender and global health
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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