SURINAME-CSE-TBs-CEDAW

Concluding Observations on Report 4-6 (2018) (Link)

Education

34. The Committee…remains concerned about the following:

…(e) The lack of mandatory, comprehensive and age-appropriate education in schools on sexual and reproductive health and rights;…

35. In line with the Committee’s general recommendation No. 36 (2017) on the right of girls and women to education, and recalling its previous concluding observations (CEDAW/CO/SUR/CO/3, para. 18), the Committee recommends that the State party:

…(d) Institutionalize mandatory, age-appropriate and comprehensive sexuality education, including education on responsible sexual behaviour and prevention of early pregnancy;…

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Concluding Observations on Report 3 (2007) (Link)

[no mention]

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Concluding Observations on Report 1-2 (2002) (Link)

57. The Committee is concerned that, in some educational institutions, teenage mothers are not always readmitted to junior secondary schools because of the perception that “the young mothers would have a negative influence on other girls”, while teenage fathers are not prevented from attending schools.

58. The Committee requests the State party to include age-appropriate sex education in school curricula and to conduct awareness campaigns so as to prevent teenage pregnancies…

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