Żminijietna – Voice of the Left supports the European Parliament
Resolution on the report, Empowering Girls through Education in the EU. This is a major step towards gender
equality.
“The report stresses that education
is an important tool for enabling women to participate fully in society. The
report stresses that poverty is the biggest obstacle preventing girls from
education and gender equality. Also that
those girls who are not allowed to go to school are more exposed to domestic
violence”.
“Further on, the report encourages
member states to promote gender equality in their comprehensive sex and
relationship programs and to consider making these programs compulsory in their
school curricula for all primary and secondary school children and training
teachers. The report also calls on the Commission to support the inclusion of
objective information on LGBTi issues in school curricula”.
Żminjietna said that “compulsory sex education will contribute to public health
priorities such as reducing unplanned pregnancies and prevention and early
treatment of sexually transmitted infections. Given the fact, that teenage
pregnancies rates in Malta have been growing, the recommendations in the report
are a step forward towards addressing this problem.
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