Sexuality Education and International Standards: Insisting Upon Children’s Rights

Daly, Aoife ORCID: 0000-0002-4005-9803 and O'Sullivan, Catherine (2020) Sexuality Education and International Standards: Insisting Upon Children’s Rights. Human Rights Quarterly: a comparative and international journal of the social sciences, humanities and law, 42 (4). pp. 835-858.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hrq.2020.0043

Abstract

The #MeToo movement has exposed the need for education about consent, power dynamics and positive relationships. International human rights instruments oblige states to provide sexuality education, and there have been some legal challenges to state provision of such education. Courts at regional and domestic levels have focused on the benefits to the state of sexuality education, holding it permissible if it is "objective" and if parents may educate privately to avoid it. It is argued in this article however that greater focus is required on sexuality education as primarily a child's human right, independent of state discretion and/or parental rights.

Item Type:	Article
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	02 Mar 2020 11:20
Last Modified:	18 Jan 2023 23:59
DOI:	10.1353/hrq.2020.0043
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3077020