Civil society organisations have called upon schools to engage
in sex education as a way of engaging young people and men in Sexual
Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR).
Speaking at a meeting in Kampala at the weekend,
Mityana Woman MP Sylvia Namabidde said: “Men and young people should be
engaged in SRHR because when young people reach the stage of marriage
without an idea on family planning, safe days and rights of women, they
end up hurting people and themselves.”
Ms Namabidde added that women empowerment is
undermined by men’s actions, especially through cultural norms such as
denying women the right to work, not educating girls, increase in school
dropout and polygamous/early marriages.
Many civil society organisations that attended the
meeting said they cannot talk about rights without the roles and
responsibilities of young people, because they have to attain their
rights fully by demanding for their rights to be respected and observed
by those in authority.
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