By Robert Anane/William Fiabu, GNA
Accra, Jan. 31, GNA - Teenage girls have been urged to endeavour to be well aware of their sexuality rights, when dealing with members of the opposite sex.
“To be a mother is a wonderful experience, but it should be your choice.”
Madam Stefania Giannini, Assistant Director General of UNESCO in charge of Education, said this, when in Accra, when she, along with a number of representatives UNESCO delegation, paid a day’s working visit to Accra Girls Senior High School.
The visit was to afford them the chance to make a first- hand assessment of the Comprehensive Sexuality Education program of the school.
It also formed part of activities to mark the launch of the “Our Rights, Our Lives, Our Future” (O3) programme in Accra, to enhance comprehensive sexuality education, and adolescent sexual and reproductive health services in Sub-Saharan Africa.
She urged parents to show more interest in issues bordering on the sexual rights of their teenage girls and all other related matters, because the better educated these parents are, the more useful they would be to their daughters, when they need counselling and support.
Madam Giannini, praised the school authorities for the work they had done so far, with regards to Comprehensive Sexuality Education in the school.
Madam Joyce Acolatse, Headmistress of the school, said the students were constantly being made aware of the need to be responsible with the choices they made, when it came to their sexual health.
She said the highly interactive nature of relations between students and tutors, coupled with intensive education on the student’s sexuality rights, made it quite impossible for incidents of sexual harassment to thrive in the school.
Since 2010, UNESCO and UN partners have been supporting the efforts of governments in Sub-Saharan Africa, to improve upon the fortunes of young people, through Comprehensive Sexuality Education.
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