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Jamie Vernaelde

Jamie Vernaelde

Senior Researcher at Ipas, researching anti-rights and anti-gender movements and their impact on sexual and reproductive health and rights globally.

Aug 14, 2026

4:28
... of this movement started?
4:31
Yeah, and I think we can look to, you know, many groups, many religions that work with education as a way of building societies.
4:41
You know, working with young people is not new by any means, nor is educating them in specific doctrines and faiths and issues.
4:49
None of that is new.
4:50
What we were finding was, especially in the US, there was the bringing together of this element of wanting to control young people's education, and we look back some 100 years to key court cases in the US, but also with the rise of organizing politically around not just Catholicism and the, the religious, what, what eventually becomes the religious right, and how both this political organization of religious groups in the US, again, mostly evangelical and Catholic, happens at the same time as this harnessing of young people through education, through targeted programs, and through specific organizations to bring them together.
5:36
Again, it's interesting if you look back and, and I'm speaking about the US knowing, you know, we could speak about, you know, Catholic recruitment of young people through education.
5:45
Again, nothing new there.

39 MINS LATER

44:41
Can you talk about the legal advocacy, the cultural spaces, the digital, and the other recommendations that you are closing the report with?

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