Facing negative reactions to sexuality education through a Multicultural Human Rights framework

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3972371
AutoresVera S F Paiva (0000-0002-8852-3265, Universidade de São Paulo), Vera Paiva, Valéria Nanci Silva (0000-0002-5232-1821, Universidade de São Paulo)
Año2015
Volumen23
Número46
Páginas96-106
Fecha de publicación2015-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaReproductive Health Matters (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0968-8080 • E-ISSN: 1460-9576
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1016/j.rhm.2015.11.015
PMID26719001
OpenAlexW2199710763
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas21
Referencias citadas15

Sexuality education, its protocols and planning are contingent on an ever-changing political environment that characterizes the field of sexuality in most countries. In Brazil, human rights perspectives shaped the country's response to the AIDS epidemic, and indirectly influenced the public acceptability of sexuality education in schools. Since 2011, however, as multiple fundamentalist movements emerged in the region, leading to recurrent waves of backlashes in all matters related to sexuality, both health and educational policies have begun to crawl backwards. This article explores human rights-based approaches to health, focusing on a multicultural rights-based framework and on productive approaches to broadening the dialogue about sustained consent to sexuality education. Multicultural human rights (MHR) approaches are dialogical in two domains: the communication process that guarantees consent and community agreements and the constructionist psychosocial-educational methodologies. In its continuous process of consent, the MHR approach allowed for distinct values translation and diffused the resistance to sexuality education in the participant schools/cities, successfully sustaining notions of equality and protection of the right to a comprehensive sexuality education that does not break group solidarity and guarantees acceptability of differences

Human rights · Human sexuality · Multiculturalism · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Solidarity · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Gender Studies · Human Rights and Development · Law · Sex work and related issues