Excerpts from the International Guidelines on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights
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Legalizing Illicit Sex
Page 29-30
21 (b) Criminal law prohibiting sexual acts (including adultery, sodomy, fornication and commercial sexual encounters) between consenting adults in private should be reviewed, with the aim of repeal.
Legalizing Prostitution
Page 30
21 (c) With regard to adult sex work that involves no victimization, criminal law should be reviewed with the aim of decriminalizing . . .
Legalizing Abortion
Page 35
22 (f) Laws should also be enacted to ensure women’s reproductive and sexual rights, including the right of independent access to reproductive and STD health information and services and means of contraception, including safe and legal abortion . . .
Legalizing Same-sex marriage and Penalizing Criticism of Homosexuality
Page 36
22 (h) Anti-discrimination and protective laws should be enacted to reduce human rights violations against men having sex with men, including in the context of HIV . . . These measures should include providing penalties for vilification of people who engage in same-sex relationships, giving legal recognition to same-sex marriages and/or relationships and governing such relationships . . .
Mandatory HV/AIDS Sex Education Regardless of Religious and Cultural Traditions
Page 96
136 It is the State’s obligation to ensure, in every cultural and religious tradition, that appropriate means are found so that effective HIV information is included in educational programmes inside and outside schools. The provision of education and information to children should not be considered as promoting early sexual experimentation; rather, as studies indicate, it delays sexual activity.
