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New COVID-19 Law Lab to provide vital legal information and support for the global COVID-19 response

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Launching today, the COVID-19 Law Lab initiative gathers and shares legal documents from over 190 countries across the world to help states establish and implement strong legal frameworks to manage the pandemic.

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Europe: Comprehensive sexuality education protects children and helps build a safer, inclusive society

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Comprehensive sexuality education is part of a good quality education. Thus, it should be provided for by law, be mandatory and mainstreamed across the education system as of the early school years. It is of concern that, according to a 2018 survey, sexuality education was mandatory in only 11 out of the 22 Council of Europe member states reviewed.

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World Health Organization guidance on abortion

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Every woman has the recognized human right to decide freely and responsibly without coercion and violence the number, spacing and timing of their children and to have the information and means to do so, and the right to attain the highest standard of sexual and reproductive health (ICPD 1994).

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Call for Applications – Working Group on Trans Depath

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In May 2019, the World Health Assembly finally approved the ICD-11. It was an historic victory for the trans and gender diverse movement, in which all psycho-pathologizing categories were deleted from the ICD-11 and new categories were introduced into a newly created chapter on Conditions Related to Sexual Health.

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One person dies by suicide every 40 seconds: new UN health agency report

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Despite progress in national prevention strategies, one person dies by suicide every 40 seconds, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Director-General lamented on Monday, highlighting key findings of the agency’s latest report on global suicide estimates.

Seizing the opportunity: Ending AIDS in the Middle East and North Africa

With its concentrated HIV epidemic, the Middle East and North Africa has the advantage of a relatively low HIV burden among the general population, as well as among children and adolescents.