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Sexual education 2010, para. 28
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- In accordance with the provisions of article 3 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Human Rights Committee in its concluding observations has expressed concern about the elimination of sexual education from school curricula and the high rate of unwanted pregnancies and abortions among girls and adolescents and has requested that States should take measures to help young women avoid unwanted pregnancies, including by strengthening family planning and sexual education programmes.
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- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Girls
- Women
- Youth
- Year
- 2010
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Sexual education 2010, para. 73
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- Although fathers and mothers are free to choose the type of education that their sons and daughters will have, this authority may never run counter to the rights of children and adolescents, in accordance with the primacy of the principle of the best interests of the child. This implies a need to create forums in which all options and opinions can be discussed within the education process. Particularly in the case of sexual education, people have the right to receive high-quality scientific information that is unprejudiced and age-appropriate, so as to foster full development and prevent possible physical and psychological abuse.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Children
- Infants
- Year
- 2010
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Sexual education 2010, para. 34
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- In its general recommendation No. 24, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women requested States to report on measures taken "to ensure timely access to the range of services which are related to family planning, in particular, and to sexual and reproductive health in general. Particular attention should be paid to the health education of adolescents, including information and counselling on all methods of family planning".30
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Families
- Women
- Year
- 2010
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Sexual education 2010, para. 24
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- United Nations treaty bodies have viewed the lack of access to sexual and reproductive education as a barrier to compliance with the State's obligation to guarantee the rights to life, health, non-discrimination, education and information. For example, the Human Rights Committee has urged the removal of barriers to access by adolescents to information about safer sex practices, such as condom use. The Committees have also identified sexual education as a means of guaranteeing the right to health as it helps to reduce the maternal mortality, abortion and adolescent pregnancy rates and the prevalence of HIV/AIDS.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Year
- 2010
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Sexual education 2010, para. 40
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- States are required to provide comprehensive sexual education to their people, especially children and adolescents, in compliance with the standards of availability, accessibility, acceptability and adaptability established by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights as regards the right to education. This is a State obligation of due diligence since, under international law, States must show that they have taken all the measures of a preventive nature that are necessary to fulfil their obligations to guarantee the right to health, life, non-discrimination, education and information by eliminating barriers preventing access to sexual and reproductive health and by providing in schools and other educational facilities comprehensive education for sexuality giving precise, objective and unbiased information. The Declaration "Preventing through education", signed by the Ministers of Health and Education of Latin America and the Caribbean in 2008, is a good example of recognition of States' obligation of due diligence in this regard.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Children
- Year
- 2010
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Sexual education 2010, para. 55
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- According to the International Bureau of Education, HIV/AIDS is a mandatory subject in primary education in 10 of the 18 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. However, in many African countries, adolescents have no access to information on sexuality. On the basis of a number of studies carried out in the region, it is estimated that almost half of the people who have received sexual education received no information on topics considered to be of key importance (contraception, pregnancy and pregnancy prevention, sexually transmitted diseases and the right to say no to sex). In the vast majority of cases, sexual education is provided through lectures; only in a few cases are more effective tools, such as interactive or group activities, used.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Year
- 2010
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Sexual education 2010, para. 35
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- That Committee continually calls upon States parties to implement sexual education programmes and has recommended the expansion of sexual and reproductive health programmes as a necessary means of addressing high abortion and maternal mortality rates. It has encouraged States parties to provide systematic sexual education in schools and has specifically called for increased efforts to prevent adolescent pregnancies, including educating children about responsible partnerships and parenthood.
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Adolescents
- Children
- Year
- 2010
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