Evidence of Systemic and Unlawful Promotion of Comprehensive Sexuality Education by UN Secretariat, Agencies, and Other UN Entities

INTRODUCTION

At the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in 1994, UN member states agreed to provide “age-appropriate sex education” with “appropriate direction and guidance from parents and legal guardians.” Since then, the landscape has changed significantly, with a concentrated effort by a group of mostly wealthy Western countries to gain acceptance of “comprehensive sexuality education” (CSE). This effort has been largely unsuccessful and met with opposition from the local to the international level. Nevertheless, the UN system has thrown its weight behind the effort to make CSE not only available but mandatory and ubiquitous in every country of the world.

This fact sheet does not address the controversial aspects of CSE, nor many of the terms that have been proposed in negotiations to replace CSE, many of which contain caveats that sex education should be age-appropriate, culturally relevant, and conducted with the knowledge and approval of parents or guardians. It focuses on the UN’s promotion of “CSE” despite the clear lack of consensus among member states that it should do so.

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