Sexual education 2010, para. 40

Párrafo
Paragraph text
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.
Condicón jurídica
Non-negotiated soft law
Organismo
Special Rapporteur on the right to education
Tipo de documento
Special Procedures' report
Medio de adopción
N.A.
Temas
  • Education
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
Personas afectadas
  • Adolescents
  • Children
Año
2010
Tipo de párrafo
Other
Reference
SR Education, Report to the UNGA (2010), A/65/162, para. 40.
Paragraph number
40