School Days

Ghana: Sexuality education in schools: some answers to ‘when’ and ‘what’

How does comprehensive sexuality education translate into the curriculum of schools? One or another element of sexuality education has been taught in Ghanaian schools since before independence in 1957. Taught under different nomenclature, sexuality education has, at all times, used an integrated approach at the pre-tertiary level. We set out to study the relationship and the depth of coverage of topics in Ghana.

US: Department of Education Publishes Memorandum Misconstruing Supreme Court’s Bostock Decision

The Human Rights Campaign responded to the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights publication of a memorandum misconstruing the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Bostock v. Clayton County, prohibiting discrimination against LGBTQ people, and its application to Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.

Hungary: Another constitutional amendment proposal could come to curb LGBTQ propaganda

The proposal to amend the Basic Law was announced by Tamás Gaudi-Nagy, head of the National Rights Protection Service. The aim of the initiators is for the Russian model, the parliament, to ban propaganda activities against traditional sexual relations and the promotion of non-traditional sexual relations.

Three Decades of Research: The Case for Comprehensive Sex Education

School-based sex education plays a vital role in the sexual health and well-being of young people. Little is known, however, about the effectiveness of efforts beyond pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease prevention. The authors conducted a systematic literature review of three decades of research on school-based programs to find evidence for the effectiveness of comprehensive sex education.

‘China has a national sexual illiteracy’: the challenges in the way of developing sex education in the country

Demand for sex education is on the rise in China; however, deep-seated values could stand in the way of developing sex education despite a recent law change. Many families do not believe teenagers should date before university and believe that the father should be the decision maker in a household