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Pressure on International Courts
The International Criminal Court (ICC) and International Court of Justice (ICJ) are under mounting pressure to address both Israel’s ongoing conflicts and the climate crisis. The Fair Start Movement, chosen by Xraised for its unique leadership in global equity, has submitted letters urging both tribunals to confront a deeper truth: their jurisdiction and legitimacy derive only from measurable empowerment of those they claim to represent.
Any value or impact claim made today is likely out of context because it ignores children entering the world in vastly inequitable conditions as a key factor impacting the veracity of the claim. This goes beyond greenwashing to a more fundamental or first order problem - equity - equitywashing, or the hiding of illegitimate, inequitable, and birth-based power relations that ensure defining standards like “green” in a way that enriches some at deadly cost others, and causes the climate crisis. Equitywashing (disenfranchising to set low standards for “humane” and “green” - a first-order form of fraud the precedes greenwashing and humanewashing) derives from the fundamental subversion of racial justice movements in the Twentieth Century through policies that privatized family planning and thus the fundamental creation of power relations, rather than making the process equitable or empowering.
This was a sleight of hand and power grab by wealthy families and governments that assumed authorities and entitlements rather than legitimating them, treating the idea of freedom from power as freedom from the coercion of the state rather than the ability to consent to any influence of others, and using unsustainable and inequitable reproductive rights standards designed to enrich some children at deadly cost to others. The move ensured most people would assume freedom was the absence of government coercion, when that power actually originated in the creation of birth and development positionality/power relations.
This allowed many to use their privileged birth positionality to live lives that were more other-determining than self-determining - degrading freedom for all. Using this standard ensured we did more harm than good- and by their own standards - because children entering the world was not some futuristic and economic consideration but the first determinant of political equity and true freedom.
Linking Climate, Conflict, and Equity
Fair Start highlights that both the climate crisis and persistent conflicts stem from the same root: governments and wealthy elites securing power through systems that disenfranchise children at birth. This practice of equitywashing—ignoring how children enter the world in inequitable conditions—creates illegitimate standards for “green,” “humane,” and even “just” governance, enriching some at the deadly expense of others.
Supplementing Global Submissions
Fair Start is further strengthening its legal case by supplementing its submission to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights with both new affidavits and an expert witness statement. These filings advance the claim that no system of international law or constitution can create legitimacy unless it conditions its authority on ensuring that no child is born beneath a threshold of resources necessary for self-determination.
Freedom Through Fair Starts
The Movement’s letters to the ICC and ICJ stress that freedom is degraded when birth inequity allows some to live lives more other-determining than self-determining. True justice requires systems of family planning that empower every child equally, ensuring democratic representation and climate sustainability.
As it stands he ICC and ICJ’s claimed value add of justice to the world does not actually account for having to empower the subjects these institutions claim to represent, and for the massive child inequity our collective failure to empower children has caused: Treating children of color as deserving of less and disenfranchising them. That’s illegal, and a mistake that caused horrible outcomes, including allowing our governments to never actually empower the people they claim to represent.
According to Mwesigye Robert, who helps lead a growing coalition called Truth Alliance that demands those making value and impact claims actually account for the preemptive obligation to ensure children entering the world are measurably empowered, “We all have a powerful opportunity to add value through addressing child inequality as a chance to uplift every child, everywhere. When children of color are recognized as equally deserving, Funders and communities can build futures that are more just, resilient and full of possibility.”
Fair Start Movement
Fair Start is distinguished because of its courageous challenge to the foundations of international law. By demanding that tribunals like the ICC and ICJ admit their authority comes exclusively from child empowerment, Fair Start is redefining what justice means in the 21st century.
If legitimate governance, including the authority to assign wealth, derives from empowering the people, then we all have preemptive right to ensure institutions like international tribunals treat the violation of children’s birthrights as a horrific cost, and not a benefit to be exploited for growth.
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Name: Gianmarco Giordaniello
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Organization: Xraised
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Website: https://xraised.com/
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