Right to Sexual and Reproductive Health Education 2016 the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), the Convention on the Elimination of All forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), and Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). The right to a proper education is guaranteed for everyone under ICESCR and UDHR, while the rights of a child to have information, education and good health is also emphasized in CRC. Furthermore, many international organizations recommend and promote inclusion of a comprehensive SRHE in the curriculum. “The right to education includes the right to sexual education, which is both a human right in itself and an indispensable means of realizing other human rights, such as the right to health, the right to information and sexual and reproductive rights.’’32 The World Health Organization (WHO) states that in order to prevent unintended and other SRH related issues and risks, it is important to equip the adolescents with the relevant information, including a comprehensive SRHE. Offering SRHE in schools is a most productive way of reaching out to young people because the vast majority of adolescents are enrolled in schools. ICPD recognizes that SRHE must begin in primary schools and continue through all levels of formal and non‐formal education systems. Similarly, United Nations (UN) treaty bodies have identified the lack of SRHE as a barrier to fulfilling the State obligations such as guaranteeing the right to life, right to health, right to education and information without any discrimination. Therefore, providing 32 United States general assembly, 65th session, (2010).Report of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to education, p.7. Retrieved from http://www.hirschfeld‐eddy‐ stiftung.de/fileadmin/images/dokumente/virtuelle_ bibliothek /UN_SpecRap‐ SexEd_Report_Human_Right_2010.pdf 18 REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH EDUCATION FROM A RIGHTS PERSPECT

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