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“Comprehensive Sexuality Education” Programs and Materials
- International Guidelines on Sexuality Education was published by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in collaboration with other UN agencies including UNICEF, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), and the World Health Organization (WHO). SIECUS and IPPF are mentioned multiple times. These guidelines maintain that children have a right to receive instruction in sexual pleasure, masturbation and homosexuality, among other things.Click here to read a summary and excerpts from the International Guidelines on Sexuality Education.
- It’s All One Curriculum: Guidelines and Activities for a Unified Approach to Sexuality, Gender, HIV, and Human Rights is a comprehensive sexuality education program that was presented to youth and adults in attendance at an invitation-only breakfast in the UN Cafeteria during the 2011 session of the Commission on the Status of Women. IPPF was instrumental in its creation.Click here to read a summary and excerpts from It’s All One Curriculum.
- You, Your Life, Your Dreams is a sex-ed manual written for adolescents (defined by the World Health Organization as youth from the ages of 10-19) in the Caribbean region.
It was written and published with the assistance of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).Click here to read a summary and excerpts from You, Your Life, Your Dreams.
- Healthy, Happy and Hot was published by IPPF as a guide for HIV-positive youth. It teaches youth about their “sexual and reproductive rights” including their right to sexual pleasure. The booklet has been distributed to youth at official UN meetings.Click here to read excerpts from Healthy, Happy and Hot.