Sexual education 2010, para. 33
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- The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women imposes on States the obligation to eliminate discrimination against women in all public and private spheres of their lives, including education. Article 5 of the Convention calls on States parties to take all appropriate measures to modify the patterns of conduct of men and women "with a view to achieving the elimination of prejudices and customary and all other practices that are based on the idea of the inferiority or the superiority of either of the sexes or on stereotyped roles for men and women". Comprehensive sexual education is an indispensable means of achieving that goal. Article 10 (h) of the Convention provides that States should ensure women's "access to specific educational information to help to ensure the health and well-being of families, including information and advice on family planning".
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Men
- Women
- Year
- 2010
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- SR Education, Report to the UNGA (2010), A/65/162, para. 33.
- Paragraph number
- 33
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