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Sexuality Education
False pretenses: a program against comprehensive sexuality education that hinders human rights.
This would be an abstract. This report exposes international opposition to comprehensive sexuality education despite its proven benefits for adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights.
Published: 2024
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Despite the proven positive impact of comprehensive sexuality education on the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of adolescents, there is a growing movement of opposition to curricula based on moral or religious grounds.
Over the past decade, with the increasing mainstreaming of comprehensive sexuality education (CSE), major international anti-rights players based mainly in the USA have mobilized activists from countries in the Global South, particularly Africa and Latin America, to advocate in United Nations (UN) spaces against the rights of women and young people to SRHR information and services. They are also working with national and regional movements to put an end to ECS programs.
Silencing these issues contributes to stigmatization, shame and ignorance, and can increase risk-taking as well as create barriers to help-seeking for marginalized populations. It is imperative to highlight the empirical and scientific evidence proving the effectiveness of ECS, as well as to recognize that governments around the world are making sex education programs a national priority.