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= Women's Declaration International = The Women's Declaration International (WDI), formerly the Women's Human Rights Campaign (WHRC), is a worldwide advocacy group founded in the United Kingdom. The WDI are a female only group who’s stated goals are to lobby nations to maintain language protecting women and girls on the basis of sex rather than "gender" or "gender identity". The group has published a declaration on "Sex-based rights" which seeks to reaffirm the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women(CEDAW). It has been described as and trans-exclusionary radical feminist (TERF).

History
The Women's Human Rights Campaign (WHRC) was founded in 2019 as a female only group by a group of women including Jo brew, Dr. Sheila Jeffreys, Mary O'Hara and Dr. Heather Brunskell-Evans. In December 2021, the group changed its name to "Women's Declaration International."

According to Vice the group has promoted conspiracy theories and false information. The Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) has described WHRC as a trojan horse in human rights spaces and argued that WHRC "engages in sensationalism and fear-mongering" to "undermine and water down the progressions of human rights standards that protect the rights of trans and gender non-conforming persons." The Scottish Women's Aid described WHRC as a group "seeking to stigmatise and discriminate against trans women." The Trans Safety Network described WHRC as "an extreme anti-trans group" and "a key point of convergence" between transphobic feminism and the far right. Equity Forward discussed WHRC in the context of the Trump administration’s "anti-human rights multilateralism" and described it as anti-trans. The Canadian Anti-Hate Network described WHRC as a "TERF project."

The Declaration
The declaration, which was co-authored by an international group of women including Maureen O'Hara, Dr. Sheila Jeffreys and Heather Brunskell-Evans seeks to lobby nations to maintain language protecting women and girls on the basis of sex rather than "gender" or "gender identity". It requires states to reaffirm the sex-based rights of women defined in the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women(CEDAW). as adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1979.

The declaration consists of 9 articles, 1-8 are focussed on protecting the rights of women and girls with the 9th specifically directed at protecting the rights of the child.


 * Article 1: Reaffirming that the rights of women are based upon the category of sex


 * Article 2: Reaffirming the nature of motherhood as an exclusively female status
 * Article 3: Reaffirming the rights of women and girls to physical and reproductive integrity
 * Article 4: Reaffirming women’s rights to freedom of opinion and freedom of expression
 * Article 5: Reaffirming women’s right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
 * Article 6: Reaffirming women’s rights to political participation on the basis of sex
 * Article 7: Reaffirming women’s rights to the same opportunities as men to participate actively in sports and physical education
 * Article 8: Reaffirming the need for the elimination of violence against women
 * Article 9: Reaffirming the need for the protection of the rights of the child

Reception
The Declaration has received significant negative coverage particularly from LGBTQ+ organisations across the globe with many declaring it transphobic, anti-trans,  and trans-exclusionary,. Emma Ritch, executive director of the feminist policy organisation Engender, said that "when [the declaration] talks about violence against women, freedom of expression, and children's rights it does so entirely through the warped lens of antipathy towards trans people." She further said that WHRC appears to see "rights as a rhetorical device with which to stigmatise minority groups." The declaration was described by the Equality Network as anti-trans, by the Scottish Trans Alliance as focused "almost entirely on denying the reality of trans people's lives" and as transphobic. The Association for Women's Rights in Development said that the "'sex-based' rhetoric misuses concepts of sex and gender to push a deeply discriminatory agenda." Legal scholar and human rights expert Sandra Duffy described the declaration's concept of "sex-based rights" as "a fiction with the pretence of legality." Kathleen Stock, who resigned from her position at the University of Sussex following accusations of transphobia, had been criticised by student protesters for signing WHRC's declaration. WHRC subsequently released a joint statement together with the Women's Liberation Front in support of Stock.

Signatories
The Declaration has signatories from 157 countries.


 * Americas: Argentina, Bahamas, Bolivia, Brazil, Bermuda, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, United states, Venezuela
 * Europe: Andorra, Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom
 * Asia: Afghanistan, China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Singapore, South Korea
 * Oceania: Australia, New Zealand
 * Africa: Angola, Cameroon, South Africa

United Kingdom
The group has called for the UK to scrap the Gender Recognition Act.