The Global Social and Emotional Security State: The Transformation of Education to Embed Sexual Rights and a Progressive Universal Ethic
The politicization of education systems in the United States and abroad has become greatly pronounced in the past decade, with debate over controversial curricula including critical race theory, comprehensive sexuality education, and affirmation of gender ideologies.
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Why Comprehensive Sexuality Education is Not the Answer
For over two decades, international agencies have promoted the concept of “comprehensive sexuality education” and have sought the normative support of United Nations intergovernmental bodies, but the notion has failed to gain support from UN member states as a whole because of the controversial explicit content of these programs, as well as their challenges to parental authority and traditional sexual norms. This Definitions will explain what comprehensive sexuality education is and why it is so controversial.
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Evidence of Systemic and Unlawful Abortion Promotion by UN Secretariat, Agencies, and other Entities (Updated 2022)
In 1994, at the International Conference on Population and Development, UN member states agreed that abortion was an issue to be addressed exclusively in national politics and legislation, and therefore not a human right or an issue on which international agencies should opine or interfere.
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Evidence of Systemic and Unlawful Promotion of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity by UN Secretariat, Agencies, and other Entities (Updated 2022)
Recent debates on the use of the terms “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” within the United Nations in reference to individuals who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) are often conducted with the assumption that these notions are clearly defined in science and law.
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Evidence of Systemic and Unlawful Promotion of Comprehensive Sexuality Education by UN Secretariat, Agencies, and other Entities (Updated 2022)
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.”
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Problems with the East African Community Sexual and Reproductive Health Bill
C-Fam offers a discussion of the more controversial aspects of the bill for the aid of legislators in East Africa and their staff in discussing the bill.
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Problems with Education Cannot Wait Policy and Programming
Education Cannot Wait programs promote access to contraception and abortion. In its 2018- 2021 Gender Strategy document, Education Cannot Wait asserted that “sexual and reproductive health interventions” [includes contraception and abortion] are indispensable for ensuring continued education and preventing pregnancy. Grant recipients were encouraged to link “sexual and reproductive health services to education and learning opportunities.”
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Abortion and the Current Politics of Climate Change
This Definitions examines how the abortion issue relates to the current global political discussion around climate change. It examines how the lingering memory of the “population bomb” that proved to be a dud informs the current debate, the role of the UN in historically pivoting away from the “population control” narrative, and how the rising concern of a “climate crisis” risks reanimating these old and dangerous ideas.
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“Self-Care” that Harms and Kills: The WHO’s Push to “Demedicalize” Abortion
This Definitions examines how the rubric of “self-care” is being used to remove or bypass all safety and legal guardrails around abortion, how the COVID-19 pandemic has been utilized to accelerate this agenda, and how the groundwork has been carefully laid to ensure that access to abortion is ubiquitous regardless of the law—all with support from the UN’s global health agency.
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The Significance of the Geneva Consensus Declaration
This Definitions considers the importance of the Geneva Consensus Declaration in the context of the ongoing debates about social issues in the international context.
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