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Sex Ed Day held in November 20th, International Day for Children's Rights. To ensure the recommendations issued by UNESCO experts, in favour of Comprehensive Sexuality Education from the age of 5, including masturbation, are respected.

Awareness for Sex Education

International SexEd Day, Launched in 2015, SexEd Day is the IRM's annual awareness campaign for sex education in childhood as recommended by experts from several international institutions‘ research reports including UNESCO and the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe. It takes place each year on November 20th, International Day for Children’s Rights.

The International technical guidance on sexuality education of the UNESCO are fully in line with the Raelian philosophy that has, for more than 40 years, advocated the necessity to explain sexuality and the notion of pleasure, just like UNESCO (2009, 2015, 2017, 2019), the WHO (2010) and UNFPA (2014, 2015) have concluded in their reports.

The taboos and the law of silence that currently rule over sexuality education are destructive and dangerous. It's imperative that the guiding principles issued by UNESCO and WHO experts who favor sexuality education from childhood be genuinely implemented by governments that do absolutely nothing even where laws exist but are hardly implemented (for example in France).

The goal is to give children and adolescents a sex education that is adapted to their age and culture and that emphasizes pleasure, fulfillment and well-being in terms of sexual health as defined by World Health Organization. 

Anchored in the fundamental rights defined by many international treaties including the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Comprehensive Sex Education (CSE) allows children and adolescents to develop their autonomy in order to preserve their well-being, their health and their dignity especially in the face of the risks of violence and sexual abuse.

There is a huge gap between the way adults—including politicians and parents—perceive sexuality education and the reality that children and adolescents face on a daily basis. This failure by adults to recognize the importance of sex education and pleasure generates incredible suffering in children such as discrimination and abuse. It must change and for this to happen a global awareness of the absolute necessity of a sexual education worthy of its name is required. It's a human right.

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Awareness Campaign for Sex Education

International SexEd Day, Launched in 2015, SexEd Day is the IRM's annual awareness campaign for sex education in childhood as recommended by experts from several international institutions‘ research reports including UNESCO and the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe. It takes place each year on November 20th, International Day for Children’s Rights.

The International technical guidance on sexuality education of the UNESCO are fully in line with the Raelian philosophy that has, for more than 40 years, advocated the necessity to explain sexuality and the notion of pleasure, just like UNESCO (2009, 2015, 2017, 2019), the WHO (2010) and UNFPA (2014, 2015) have concluded in their reports.

The taboos and the law of silence that currently rule over sexuality education are destructive and dangerous. It's imperative that the guiding principles issued by UNESCO and WHO experts who favor sexuality education from childhood be genuinely implemented by governments that do absolutely nothing even where laws exist but are hardly implemented (for example in France).

The goal is to give children and adolescents a sex education that is adapted to their age and culture and that emphasizes pleasure, fulfillment and well-being in terms of sexual health as defined by World Health Organization. 

Anchored in the fundamental rights defined by many international treaties including the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Comprehensive Sex Education (CSE) allows children and adolescents to develop their autonomy in order to preserve their well-being, their health and their dignity especially in the face of the risks of violence and sexual abuse.

There is a huge gap between the way adults—including politicians and parents—perceive sexuality education and the reality that children and adolescents face on a daily basis. This failure by adults to recognize the importance of sex education and pleasure generates incredible suffering in children such as discrimination and abuse. It must change and for this to happen a global awareness of the absolute necessity of a sexual education worthy of its name is required. It's a human right.

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WRITE TO YOUR GOVERNMENT

To ask to enforce the guidelines issued by UNESCO experts in favor of sexual education from the age of 5,including information about masturbation. #WriteToYourGovernmetTO ALL GOVERNMENTS OF THE WORLD: We request that the UNESCO report on sexual education be re-issued, respecting the recommendations from the experts' studies, and that these fundamental principles be implemented by governments.

- To denounce the censorship by the UNESCO of the first report (May 2009), compiled by experts and evidence-based, following pressures from Christian lobby who have had the teaching on masturbation from the age of 5 removed. This part, censored by UNESCO*, has still not been reintroduced in the 2018 updated version of the report even though the WHO Regional Office for Europe went ahead and published it, and went a step further by advocating this explanation particularly during childhood**. Backward religious pressures must not interfere in a scientific report prepared by experts, only ones qualified to decide on the educational content are the experts in sex education, all of whom, and the sole concern should be the healthy development of the children, up to their coming of age and beyond, without any interference from the religious beliefs of their parents.

- To request the reissue of UNESCO's report on sexuality education in accordance with the studies of experts, and the implementation of these basic guiding principles by governments.

* Censored excerpt of the 2009 UNESCO report: «Learning Objectives for Level I (5-8): Explain the concept of private parts of the body. Key Ideas: • Most children are curious about their bodies • It is natural to explore and touch parts of one’s own body • Bodies can feel good when touched • Touching and rubbing one’s genitals is called masturbation • Some people masturbate and some do not • Masturbation is not harmful but should be done in private.» (p.48).

** Excerpt of the 2010 WHO report: "Matrix (0-4): Sexuality / Informing the child about the pleasure and satisfaction of touching one's own body, early childhood masturbation • discovering one's own body and genitals • the fact that the pleasure of physical contact is a normal part of everyone's life • gentleness and physical contact as an expression of love and affection (p.38).[/i]

Bibliography

UNESCO (2009). International Technical Guidance on Sexuality Education : An evidence- informed approach for schools teachers and health educators. http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001832/183281e.pdf

UNESCO (2015). Emerging Evidence, Lessons and Practice in Comprehensive Sexuality Education, a global review. http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0024/002431/243106e.pdf

UNESCO (2017). Revised edition. International technical guidance on sexuality education: an evidence-informed approach. http://www.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/pub-pdf/266214fre.pdf ou http://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000266214?posInSet=1&queryId=ead5531e-56ab-4ac2-8a7d-dbb2a501289c

UNESCO (2019). Facing the facts: the case for comprehensive sexuality education.
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000368231 (more languages on : http://en.unesco.org/gem-report/node/2791)

UNFPA (2014). UNFPA Operational Guidance for Comprehensive Sexuality Education : A Focus on Human Rights and Gender. www.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/pub-pdf/UNFPA_OperationalGuidance_WEB3.pdf

UNFPA (2015). The Evaluation of Comprehensive Sexuality Education Programmes : A Focus on the Gender and Empowerment Outcomes. www.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/pub-pdf/UNFPAEvaluationWEB4.pdf

World Health Organisation (2010). Standards for Sexuality Education in Europe. www.oif.ac.at/fileadmin/OEIF/andere_Publikationen/WHO_BZgA_Standards.pdf

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WRITE TO YOUR GOVERNMENT!

To ask to enforce the guidelines issued by UNESCO experts in favour of sexual education from the age of 5, including information about masturbation. #WriteToYourGovernment TO ALL GOVERNMENTS OF THE WORLD: We request that the UNESCO report on sexual education be re-issued, respecting the recommendations from the experts' studies, and that these fundamental principles be implemented by governments.

- To denounce the censorship by the UNESCO of the first report (May 2009), compiled by experts and evidence-based, following pressures from Christian lobby who have had the teaching on masturbation from the age of 5 removed. This part, censored by UNESCO*, has still not been reintroduced in the 2018 updated version of the report even though the WHO Regional Office for Europe went ahead and published it, and went a step further by advocating this explanation particularly during childhood**. Backward religious pressures must not interfere in a scientific report prepared by experts, only ones qualified to decide on the educational content are the experts in sex education, all of whom, and the sole concern should be the healthy development of the children, up to their coming of age and beyond, without any interference from the religious beliefs of their parents.

- To request the reissue of UNESCO's report on sexuality education in accordance with the studies of experts, and the implementation of these basic guiding principles by governments.

* Censored excerpt of the 2009 UNESCO report: «Learning Objectives for Level I (5-8): Explain the concept of private parts of the body. Key Ideas: • Most children are curious about their bodies • It is natural to explore and touch parts of one’s own body • Bodies can feel good when touched • Touching and rubbing one’s genitals is called masturbation • Some people masturbate and some do not • Masturbation is not harmful but should be done in private.» (p.48).

** Excerpt of the 2010 WHO report: "Matrix (0-4): Sexuality / Informing the child about the pleasure and satisfaction of touching one's own body, early childhood masturbation • discovering one's own body and genitals • the fact that the pleasure of physical contact is a normal part of everyone's life • gentleness and physical contact as an expression of love and affection (p.38).[/i]

Bibliography

UNESCO (2009). International Technical Guidance on Sexuality Education : An evidence- informed approach for schools teachers and health educators. http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001832/183281e.pdf

UNESCO (2015). Emerging Evidence, Lessons and Practice in Comprehensive Sexuality Education, a global review. http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0024/002431/243106e.pdf

UNESCO (2017). Revised edition. International technical guidance on sexuality education: an evidence-informed approach. http://www.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/pub-pdf/266214fre.pdf ou http://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000266214?posInSet=1&queryId=ead5531e-56ab-4ac2-8a7d-dbb2a501289c

UNESCO (2019). Facing the facts: the case for comprehensive sexuality education.
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000368231 (more languages on : http://en.unesco.org/gem-report/node/2791)

UNFPA (2014). UNFPA Operational Guidance for Comprehensive Sexuality Education : A Focus on Human Rights and Gender. www.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/pub-pdf/UNFPA_OperationalGuidance_WEB3.pdf

UNFPA (2015). The Evaluation of Comprehensive Sexuality Education Programmes : A Focus on the Gender and Empowerment Outcomes. www.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/pub-pdf/UNFPAEvaluationWEB4.pdf

World Health Organisation (2010). Standards for Sexuality Education in Europe. www.oif.ac.at/fileadmin/OEIF/andere_Publikationen/WHO_BZgA_Standards.pdf

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Why is it so important?

"Education emphasizing sexuality and pleasure from childhood is a human right and an absolute necessity to protect young girls and boys from discrimination and abuse, and so that they can learn to respect themselves and others,”
ClemenceSexologist/Organizer of Sexed Day
Clemence
"Providing a quality and solid sex education foundation is the only way to ensure that young girls and boys will grow into responsible, sexually healthy adults. Thus, we owe it to them to keep them well informed and help them navigate all the choices they face as they discover their own sexuality.”
FelixSexologist/Massage therapist
Felix
"As the International Convention on Children’s Rights makes clear, education should aim at fostering the development of the child's personality. And developing sex education from childhood is an essential tool to contribute to equality and freedom between human beings. It’s about giving children a choice, during the learning process, to use their body with critical notions, such as self-respect, respect for others, and for diversity and sexual orientation. "
LisianeLawyer
Lisiane
"Dr. Joycelyn Elders, former U.S. Surgeon General once stated "Masturbation is part of human sexuality, and perhaps it should be taught [in school]". Schools are indeed a safe, professional and reliable place for children and teenagers to learn about their bodies and about masturbation as prescribed by the UNESCO thanks to the teaching of properly trained sexologists and child psychologists. Scandinavian countries have successfully implemented this method for decades"
NadineEducator
Nadine
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Why is it so important?

"Education emphasizing sexuality and pleasure from childhood is a human right and an absolute necessity to protect young girls and boys from discrimination and abuse, and so that they can learn to respect themselves and others,”
ClemenceSexologist/Organizer of Sexed Day
Clemence
"Providing a quality and solid sex education foundation is the only way to ensure that young girls and boys will grow into responsible, sexually healthy adults. Thus, we owe it to them to keep them well informed and help them navigate all the choices they face as they discover their own sexuality.”
FelixSexologist/Massage therapist
Felix
"Dr. Joycelyn Elders, former U.S. Surgeon General once stated "Masturbation is part of human sexuality, and perhaps it should be taught [in school]". Schools are indeed a safe, professional and reliable place for children and teenagers to learn about their bodies and about masturbation as prescribed by the UNESCO thanks to the teaching of properly trained sexologists and child psychologists. Scandinavian countries have successfully implemented this method for decades"
NadineEducator
Nadine
"As the International Convention on Children’s Rights makes clear, education should aim at fostering the development of the child's personality. And developing sex education from childhood is an essential tool to contribute to equality and freedom between human beings. It’s about giving children a choice, during the learning process, to use their body with critical notions, such as self-respect, respect for others, and for diversity and sexual orientation. "
LisianeLawyer
Lisiane
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Press Releases

Mobilizing against Religious and Political Interference
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The International Raelian Movement is organizing the fourth International SexEd Day.
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Raelians to mobilize on Nov. 20, promoting early sex education to prevent sexual assault and harassment

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Sex Education, a Child’s Fundamental Right
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Rael launches first Sex Education Day.
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Rael supports controversial UNESCO guidelines for early Childhood Sex Education.
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Raelians applaud Liz Sandals, Ontario Minister of Education.
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Rael awards Honorary Guide title to Northwestern University ‘Sex Professor’.
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Rael supports German government’s publication about healthy sex.
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Rael applauds UNESCO position favoring early sex education for children.
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6th International Day for Sex Education from Childhood
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Press Releases

Mobilizing against Religious and Political Interference
Click Here
The International Raelian Movement is organizing the fourth International SexEd Day.
Click Here
Raelians to mobilize on Nov. 20, promoting early sex education to prevent sexual assault and harassment

.
Click Here
Sex Education, a Child’s Fundamental Right
Click Here
Rael launches first Sex Education Day.
Click Here
Rael supports controversial UNESCO guidelines for early Childhood Sex Education.
Click Here
Raelians applaud Liz Sandals, Ontario Minister of Education.
Click Here
Rael awards Honorary Guide title to Northwestern University ‘Sex Professor’.
Click Here
Rael supports German government’s publication about healthy sex.
Click Here
Rael applauds UNESCO position favoring early sex education for children.
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Rael: ‘Pledge education is criminal. To ward off STDs and teen pregnancies, forget pledges and offer protection!’
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