Adolescents and youth 2012, para. 25

Paragraphe
Paragraph text
Recognizes the rights, duties and responsibilities of parents and other persons legally responsible for adolescents to provide, in a manner consistent with the evolving capacities of the adolescent, appropriate direction and guidance on sexual and reproductive matters, and that countries must ensure that the programmes and attitudes of health-care providers do not restrict the access by adolescents to appropriate services and the information they need, including on sexually transmitted infections and sexual abuse, and recognizes that in doing so, and in order to, inter alia, address sexual abuse, these services must safeguard the right of adolescents to privacy, confidentiality, respect and informed consent, respecting cultural values and religious beliefs, and that in this context, countries should, where appropriate, remove legal, regulatory and social barriers to reproductive health information and care for adolescents;
Status juridique
Negotiated soft law
Organe
Commission on Population and Development
Type de document
Resolution
Mode d'adoption
N.A.
Thèmes
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Health
Personnes concernées
  • Adolescents
  • Youth
Année
2012
Type de paragraphe
OP
Reference
CPD resolution, Adolescents and youth (2012), OP 25.
Paragraph info
OP
Paragraph number
25