Glossary
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- Ableism
Ableism is prejudice and/or discrimination against people with disabilities. It can take a variety of forms: ableism may mean that people with disabilities are defined solely by their physical or cognitive abilities; it may specifically emphasise the person’s potential “despite” their disability; it may ignore specific needs; or it may convey a sense of superiority on the part of the non-disabled.
- Agenda 2030
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development was adopted at a UN Summit in New York on 25 September 2015. With the Agenda, the international community recognises that complex global challenges can only be resolved through collaboration and that all states must make their contribution to this process. With the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, which form part of the Agenda, the international community has set itself objectives for achieving decent lives for all the world’s people while preserving natural resources for the long term. Agenda 2030 calls on all countries to act in an environmentally compatible, socially just and economically efficient manner.
- Agents of Change
Agents of Change promote and enable constructive transformation processes. They perform a particularly valuable role in conflict and crisis settings, where they can facilitate decision-making.
- AIDS
The term acquired immunodeficiency syndrome describes the collection of symptoms and infections associated with acquired deficiency of the immune system. Infection with HIV has been established as the underlying cause of AIDS.
- Anti-gender movement
The transnational anti-gender movement has grown particularly over the last decade and is hostile to what it refers to as “gender ideology”; it targets the rights of women and LGBTQI+ persons, sexual and reproductive health and rights, and civil society organisations that are active in this field. The movement consists of various state and non-state actors, most of them right-wing, right-wing populist or Christian fundamentalist. As an example of their activity, they lobby at EU and UN level against the embedding of an inclusive understanding of gender in official texts.
- Anti-racism
An anti-racist position means actively standing against all forms of racism and opposing racist structures, behaviour and attitudes in all their forms.