Practice question
Officials call a plan sustainable but deliberately exclude women from all environmental-management decisions solely because of sex. Which text most directly addresses participation in this context?
- Principle 8 bans participation
- Principle 20 recognizes women’s vital role and essential full participation for sustainable development
- Principle 9 requires exclusion
- Principle 22 abolishes all community participation
- No Rio principle addresses women
Legal references
- Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, Principles 8-10, 17, 20 and 22: https://www.cbd.int/doc/ref/rio-declaration.shtml
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