Asie et Pacifique

On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, resulting in disruptions to education at an unprecedented scale.

The merging of physical education (PE) and health is becoming increasingly popular. This is due to the recognition that these two subjects are interconnected and that a holistic approach to health education is necessary for students to develop healthy habits and lifestyles.

This desk review presents the latest evidence on best practices aligned with international comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) guidelines. It compares sexuality education policies and practices across selected Sunni Muslim countries: Turkey, Egypt, Morocco, Bangladesh and Malaysia.

The aim of this knowledge paper is to collect and synthesise emerging evidence, strategies and lessons learnt from CSE delivery in non-conventional settings in low- and middle-income countries. Also, this paper contributes to the documentation of online SRHR service delivery during COVID-19.

The Philippines has adopted reproductive health education (RHE) in schools with the passing of the Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Law in 2012 which promised multi-dimensional support on reproductive health (RH) including RHE.

The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities acknowledges the rights of people with disability to “sexual health, safety in relationships and a full and meaningful social and intimate life.” UNESCO’s International Guidelines on Sexuality Education states that all youths including

The education sector needs to know more and do more about violence in schools. Children are exposed to staggering levels of physical, psychological, and sexual violence, perpetrated by teachers, other adults, and students.

The convergence of young people’s increased access globally to smartphones and the Internet and their continued unmet needs around comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) have prompted many new sexuality education initiatives delivered through digital tools and platforms.

The report is an analysis of the available CSE curricula as developed/ implemented by the central and state governments and CSOs for in-school and out-of-school adolescents in India, assessing the content of these curricula vis-a-vis global CSE frameworks, highlighting gaps and missing components

Comprehensive and proper sexuality education helps young people develop positive values, knowledge and skills to make respectful and healthy choices about relationship and sex, which, as a result, contributes to what the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) has long been advocating—a sexual haras