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ICPD Global Youth Forum on “Families, youth-rights and well-being (including sexuality)”

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NEW YORK, December 6, 2012, ( C-FAM.org )—Following the  plenary session  (also discussed  here ) on the topic of “Families, youth-rights and well-being (including sexuality),” recommendations were compiled for inclusion in the International Conference on Population and Development ’s (ICPD) Global Youth Forum’s outcome document and  presented  to the forum.  The sad immoral recommendations are as follows: Financing and accountability : Governments should make a political and financial commitment to ensure that sexual and reproductive health and rights policies are prioritized for budgetary allocation and are equally accessible for all young people. Governments must be transparent in the implementation of these policies and programs on sexual and reproductive health and rights. Sexual rights : Governments must fund and develop, in equal partnership with young people and health care providers, policies laws and programs that recognize, promote, and...

Bob Carr and the unmet need?

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English: Melinda Gates in World Economic Forum (Cropped version) (Photo credit: Wikipedia )  If you are not too greedy and need only a modest amount of other people’s money, get a sawed-off shotgun and a balaclava. However, if you are more ambitious, get an acronym. This is clearly the lesson to be drawn from the latest banking scandal, in which Britain’s leading banks scammed US$300 billion, perhaps much more, by fibbing about the Libor—the London Interbank Offered Rate —an acronym which politicians had never heard of and regulators hardly questioned. But the same mistake was made all over again at this week’s London Family Planning Summit. The rich and famous of the world have donated $2.6 billion to meet the “unmet need” of 120 million women in the developing world for family planning. The UK has pledged $800 million, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation $560 million, the UNFPA $378 million, Norway $200 million, the Netherlands $160 million, and Germany $122 millio...

US psychiatrist: Sex ed failing Kiwi teens

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AIDS posters in the Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire) (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Teenagers are being let down by sex education that doesn't tell them it's best to wait until you're an adult and have one sexual partner for life, a visiting physician says. But Family Planning disputes United States psychiatrist Dr Miriam Grossman's characterisation of New Zealand's sex education. She has been brought here by the conservative lobby group Family First to speak at a conference in Auckland on Thursday. Dr Grossman said she took up writing and speaking on the "harms" of sex education after her experiences as a campus psychiatrist at the University of California . She saw many female students who were panicking about having, or possibly having, a sexually transmitted infection (STI), being pregnant, having had an abortion, or being confused about their emotional attachment to a man who had no intention of becoming emotionally attached to them. "The...