
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

#MeToo and the aid sector: where do we go from here?

Forced sterilisations and the violence of the everyday

Women’s Rights in Latin America

The challenge of diversity in international courts

Childcare, Labor Supply, and Business Development: Experimental Evidence from Uganda

Gender and Development: From Theory to Practice

A gendered perspective on the pandemic

Home SOS: Gender, Violence and Survival in Crisis Ordinary Cambodia

Performative technologies: agricultural research for development and gender

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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