Key words: right to education, comprehensive sexuality education, right to health, access to sexual and reproductive health information and services, evolving capacities.
This submission provides an update to Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights (Action Canada) and the Sexual Rights Initiative’s (SRI) 2020 submission to the Committee for the Rights of the Child in advance of the 87th Pre-Sessional Working Group (ANNEX 1). The submission highlights Canada’s lack of action on comprehensive sexuality education, the impact of COVID-19 on young people’s sexual health in Canada and Canada’s inadequate response to the Committee’s list of issues related to comprehensive sexuality education. The submission considers these issues under the Convention of the Rights of the Child Articles 14, 19, 24 and 28 regarding children’s rights to health, education and freedom of thought, conscience and religion.