[ycnews] UN Adopts Landmark Resolution on Youth and Adolescents at CPD

From: Jessica Main <Jessica@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'ycnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <ycnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:09:33 -0400

FYI- Info about the great outcome from the 45th Session of the Commission on 
Population and Development (CPD)

Jessica Main
Logistics and Administrative Officer
youth coalition for sexual and reproductive rights
jessica@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:lynda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> / 
www.youthcoalition.org<http://www.youthcoalition.org/>
tel: +613 562 3522 / fax: +613 562 7941

working internationally for sexual and reproductive rights.


Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Advocates welcome landmark resolution 
from the 45th Session of the Commission on Population and Development (CPD) for 
which the theme was 'Adolescents and Youth'


Today the UN Commission on Population and Development adopted a landmark 
resolution on the theme "Adolescents and Youth". For the first time, the UN has 
agreed on lthe following language:

To protect and promote adolescent's and young people's rights to control their 
sexuality free from violence, discrimination and coercion (PP15)

To protect and promote human rights and fundamental freedoms regardless of age 
and marital status.... and by protecting the human rights of adolescents and 
youth to have control over and decide freely and responsibly on matters related 
to their sexuality, including sexual and reproductive health (OP7)

To comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services, including safe 
abortion where legal and in circumstances where is it is not against the law, 
training and equipping health-service providers and other measures to ensure 
that such abortion is safe and accessible (OP23)

To give the full attention to meeting the reproducitve health service, 
information and education needs of young people with full respect for their 
privacy and confidentiality, free of discrimination, and to provide them with 
evidence-based comprehensive education on human sexuality, on sexual and 
reproductive health, human rights and gender equality, to enable them to deal 
in a positive and responsible way with their sexuality (OP26)

It also contains a number of important provisions on employment, HIV, youth 
participation, eliminating early and forced marriage, and others.

IWHC, DAWN and RESURJ, together with Amnesty International, will be providing a 
more substantive analysis of this document next week and send it to all of you.

Thanks to all the colleagues who worked so hard to make this historic outcome a 
reality: DAWN, RESURJ,  IPPF, WPF, Amnesty International, Choice, Equidad de 
Genero, GIRE, ACPD, Ipas, MSI, CRR, Women Deliver, You Act, Youth Coalition, 
Youth Vision and everyone who was here.

Rachel Arinii and a young woman from South Africa took the floor at the end as 
young people to express their suport and appreciation.

Particularly, the US Government, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, South Africa, 
Kenya, New Zealand, Cuba, Peru and Indonesia were instrumental to this outcome.

More later...
Happily from the UN,

Alexandra Garita
IWHC

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[ycnews] UN Adopts Landmark Resolution on Youth and Adolescents at CPD

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