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IR v Croatia Press Release

Area Date
Europe
10/10/2007
Programme Keywords
Europe
Economic and Social Rights
Health
Education
Private Life
Children
Sexual Orientation

Today, a group of human rights organisations filed the first international legal challenge to a sex education programme. INTERIGHTS, in partnership with the Center for Reproductive Rights and Centre for Education, Counselling and Research (CESI), submitted the complaint to the European Committee of Social Rights (ECSR) against Croatia for its sponsorship of and efforts to expand a discriminatory and non-science based programme which promotes abstinence at the expense of other viable alternatives such as contraception. The groups argue that, in so doing, Croatia is endangering the health and lives of its young people through misleading and inadequate sex education and therefore, is in breach of its obligations under a major international human rights treaty, the European Social Charter (...)

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