5
Events
12 April, 2021

Decolonizing Pedagogies: Black feminist reflections on gender, race, faith and seeking solidarity in the academy

Gender Centre
516
Research
Research project

Women’s Situation Rooms

Gender Centre and Elisabeth Prügl
516
News
17th January 2022

The challenge of diversity in international courts

Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy
News
28th January 2019

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

Gender Centre
516
News
11th November 2020

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

Executive Education
516
Events
9 December, 2020

Mr. Gay Syria

Gender Centre and Nicole Bourbonnais
35
Events
27 November, 2023

Dying for life: Ending maternal mortality?

Maison de la Paix - Hybrid
Global Health Centre
5
Publications
Journal article, 1 February, 2019

Introduction Gender Experts and Gender Expertise

Elisabeth Prügl
5
Events
26 October, 2023

Decolonial Feminist Horizons beyond Development

Maison de la Paix
Gender Centre
5
Research
Research project in progress

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

Gender Centre
35
News
28th July 2020

A Gendered Perspective on the Pandemic

Elisabeth Prügl and Gender Centre
5
Publications
Journal article, 27 July, 2019

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

Isabel Pike
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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

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Target 5.1

End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere

Target 5.2

Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation

Target 5.3

Eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation

Target 5.4

Recognize and value unpaid care and domestic work through the provision of public services, infrastructure and social protection policies and the promotion of shared responsibility within the household and the family as nationally appropriate

Target 5.5

Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life

Target 5.6

Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights as agreed in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences

Target 5.a

Undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, financial services, inheritance and natural resources, in accordance with national laws

Target 5.b

Enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology, to promote the empowerment of women

Target 5.c

Adopt and strengthen sound policies and enforceable legislation for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls at all levels