"me, me, me"-ism gone wild in the United Nations

One thing that the United Nations is obsessed about in recent years, the biggest buzz among its bureaucrats, government officials, and far-left NGOs walking on the corridors of the United Nations is a concept called "gender mainstreaming". This concept literally tries to "mainstream" gender perspective on every single issues that enters portfolio of the United Nations, no exceptions. In a nutshell, "me, me, me" -ism by power-hungry feminists. Some issues seem justifiable or legitimate to include such perspective, such as conflict or human rights, while others are harder to understand or downright hilarious.

Here is one of the good examples of "me, me, MEEE!!"-ism gone wild in the United Nations.

Forest and women (United Nations Forum on Forest)

While originally established by the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC) in October 2000 to pursue such benign and legitimate objective as to promote "...the management, conservation and sustainable development of all types of forests and to strengthen long-term political commitment.", in just a few years, with gender-feminists' takeover of United Nations in all areas, the United Nations Forum on Forest devolved into a forum where unhappy middle-aged women discuss such things as;

"..ensure that gender analysis and gender-disaggregated data are used in country reporting on achieving poor women's access to forests and forest resources."

"...develop guidelines for the participation of indigenous peoples, particularly indigenous women, in environmental policy development and implementation."

"Establish a separate unit, with expertise in forestry and gender and development, to assist countries and other partners to provide technical assistance and training to develop policies, skills and knowledge for gender mainstreaming within their forest-related agencies."

"...enable their experts to understand the impact and implications of forest degradation on women's human rights."

"Formal and non-formal educational curricula be reviewed and revised and guidelines developed at all levels to promote gender equality values and practices, ...to act for personal, community and social change."

"Women's political empowerment, leadership and capacity-building,as well as information dissemination among indigenous women, be guaranteedin order to enable their effective participation in the decision-making processrelated to the environment and sustainable development at all levels."

"...roster of experts, both men and women, with expertise in gendermainstreaming in the forest and related sectors, must be established, and equal representation of women and men as consultants and in all expert groups of the Forum must be pursued."

"National networks must be developed comprising women professionals in the forestry and related sectors... to promote gender equality and environmental sustainability."

(from Discussion paper contributed by the Women major group (E/CN.18/2005/3/Add.3), February 2005)