The Erasure of Sex: The Global Capture of Policies on Sex by Gender Identity Activists and the Effects on the Rights of Women and Girls

This article reviews the goals, history, and impact of the new gender identity politics. Based on the Yogyakarta Principles, these new ideas and policies will profoundly affect the rights of women and girls worldwide. The Principles are a document from an international meeting about sexual orientation and gender identity in 2006. In 2017, the document was updated to the Yogyakarta Principles Plus 10. The Principles recommend legal changes by states worldwide, resulting in the erasure of sex as a legal and cultural category. These principles have been widely used to lobby for legal changes resulting in profound structural changes that lead to undermining and eliminating protections for women and girls from sex-based discrimination and state obligations to achieve de facto sex equality. One of the most far-reaching recommendations is “States [national governments] must abolish all legal records of sex from all legal documents, including birth certificates and passports.” These recommendations are being implemented globally, although they have never been discussed or adopted by member states or any international organization, nor were any official women’s organizations consulted. This article was written by a collective of many feminist activists, researchers, and specialist service providers from Europe, Asia, North America, Latin America, and Africa who met every week at the Women’s Declaration International (WDI) sessions. They collected evidence and collaborated on creating this document from 2019 to 2022

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Classification systems are designed to contain all concepts into which a given domain of knowledge, or the whole of knowledge, is organized. Concepts are represented by both verbal terms, and their notational equivalents. The latter are devised in such a way that their ordinal sequence produces a helpful arrangement of the classified items [Ranganathan 1967, section EP]. Thus, the simplest classifications are basically lists of concepts arranged in a convenient order – for example, North-West to South-East

UvA-DARE (Digital Academic Repository) Balancing development and conservation? An assessment of livelihood and environmental outcomes of Nontimber Forest Product Trade in Research, part of a Special Feature on Navigating tradeoffs Balancing Development an

ABSTRACT. This article addresses the question, to what extent and under which conditions nontimber forest product (NTFP) trade leads to both livelihood improvement and forest conservation. We based the analysis on a standardized expert-judgment assessment of the livelihood and environmental outcomes of 55 cases of NTFP trade from Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The results show that NTFP trade benefits several components of peoples' livelihoods, but may increase inequality between households. Involvement of women in the production-to-consumption system (PCS) tends to have a positive impact on intrahousehold equity. In 80% of the cases, the commercial production of NTFPs does not enable people to make financial investments to increase quality and quantity of production, limiting the potential for development. In our set of cases, commercial extraction from the wild, without further management, tends to lead to resource depletion. NTFP production systems are generally considered to have lower environmental values than natural forest, but do contribute positively to the environmental values in the landscape. We found that higher livelihood outcomes are associated with lower environmental outcomes and conclude that NTFP trade is not likely to reconcile development and conservation of natural forest

Toward an Action-Oriented Approach to Global Citizenship: Tools for the Young Global Citizen

We have reached a point in the evolution of global citizenship where the call to action is no longer critical, it is imperative. Sustainable change is the cornerstone of the effort to bring communities together to prioritize needs and implement intelligent growth. Development must be transformative, not palliative. Those who engage in education abroad have the unique and promising opportunity to address global issues and become active participants in the development process. Younger citizens often choose to pursue opportunities both small and large that contribute to safeguarding dignity while advancing growth. Students are often better positioned and more effective than policy makers in furthering activism and advocacy due to their passion, energy and open mindedness supported by the environments in which they work—namely, their universities. The growth and learning that occurs beyond the traditional classroom walls through experiential models can have an enduring impact on a young person’s future direction and life goals. Implicit in the nuanced experiences students face abroad is a dissolution of the ‘us’ and ‘them,’ an amelioration of divisive borders and a sense of acceptance that one is part of a global community. Often what follows is the realization that the student has a responsibility in shaping the future. To this end, therefore, many study abroad destinations offer students an opportunity to learn from ancient practices passed down through generations. This opening into relational rather than intellectual engagement leads to tenable solutions for social change. The visceral experience of cultural immersion promotes Bennett’s transition from ethnocentric to ethnorelative and, in doing so, creates seasoned and prepared global citizens ready to take action and contribute to a better future. Finite, tangible tools for young global citizens – from re-entry advocacy campaigns to armchair activism – will be discussed, and possible adaptations for diverse learning environments will be explored