Thursday, October 17, 2013

Crazy UNFPA paper



 Sample information given to delegates

Please delete all reference in the resolution
Programmes and Policies for Youth”
to the Bali Global Youth Forum


Summary of problematic paragraphs



Bali Global Youth Forum Declaration - 6 December 2012


Final Recommendations from Thematic Session 1: Staying Healthy

1.1 Ensuring accountability, transparency and the need for
implementation as a cross cutting theme across all recommendations,
with special focus particularly on LGBTQI, MSM, drug users ,refugees, rural populations, out -of-school, sex workers, indigenous, afro-descendant populations, migrants, young people in conflict and emergency situations, empowering young women and adolescent girls, persons with disabilities, young people living with HIV and AIDS.
Note : LGBTQI means Lesbian , Gay , Bi-sexual , Transgender , Queer , Intersex.
MSM means Men having Sex with Men

1.8 To provide non-discriminatory, non-judgmental, rights-based ,age appropriate, gender-sensitive health education including youth-friendly, evidence based comprehensive sexuality education that is context specific.

Access to health services
1.9
Governments must provide, monitor and evaluate universal access to a basic package of youth-friendly health services (including mental healthcare and sexual and reproductive health services) that are high quality, integrated, equitable, comprehensive, affordable, needs and rights based, accessible, acceptable, confidential and free of stigma and discrimination for all young people.

1.10
As part of this basic package governments must provide comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services that include safe and legal abortion, maternity care, contraception, HIV and STI prevention, care, treatment and counselling to all young people.

1.13
Governments and UN agencies should support the sexual and reproductive rights of young people including ensuring access to legal and safe abortion that is affordable, accessible and free from coercion, discrimination and stigma, providing support and protection mechanisms that promote the right to choose.

1.14
Governments should implement financially sustainable policies and legal frameworks that protect, promote and fulfil the reproductive and sexual rights of all young people, regardless of their sexual orientation and gender identities


Comprehensive sexuality education

2.12 To provide non-discriminatory, non-judgmental, rights –based ,age appropriate, gender-sensitive health education including youth -friendly, evidence based comprehensive sexuality education that is context specific.

Sexual rights
3.3Governments must fund and develop, in equal partnership with young people and health care providers, policies, laws, and programs that recognize, promote, and protect young peoples’ sexual rights as human rights. This must be developed in accordance with the principles of human rights, non-discrimination, respect, equality and inclusivity, with a gendered, multicultural and secular approach.

3.5
Cultural and religious barriers such as parental and spousal consent, and early and forced marriages, should never prevent access to family planning, safe and legal abortion, and other reproductive health services –recognizing that young people have autonomy over their own bodies, pleasures, and desires

Legal protection

3.6 Governments must ensure that international and national laws, regulations, and policies remove obstacles and barriers–including requirements for parental & spousal notification and consent; and age of consent for sexual and reproductive services—that infringe on the sexual and reproductive health and rights of adolescents and youth
3.9
Governments should decriminalize abortion, and create and implement policies and programs that ensure young women have access to safe and legal abortion, pre-and post-abortion services, without mandatory waiting periods, requirements for parental and spousal notification and/or consent or age of consent.


Sexual and reproductive health services and comprehensive sexuality education

3.10 Governments should ensure that every young person, including LGBTQI young people, have equal access to the full range of evidence-and rights-based, youth-friendly sexual and reproductive health services and comprehensive sexuality education, that is respectful of young people’s right to informed consent.
  

3.11 Services should be confidential, accessible, and include a full range of safe, effective, affordable methods of modern contraception and family planning services and commodities, including pre-and post-natal care, amongst others. Comprehensive sexuality education should be developed in partnership with young people and include information on sexual orientation and gender identities that is free of religious intolerance.


Families

3.12
The concept of the family is constantly evolving and governments must recognize this by adapting legal, policy and programmatic frameworks that embrace every form of family and ensure the right of everyone to form a family, regardless of sexual orientation and gender identity.





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