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A New Path Towards Institutionalizing Meaningful Youth Participation

Most organizations who work with and for young people strive to genuinely involve young people in their work—after all ‘nothing about us, without us’ is a slogan we’ve heard time and time again. This serves as a reminder that if you want programs and policies targeted at young people to work, you must have youth’s full and meaningful participation. Although the intention is usually there, organizations often struggle with putting this into practice and forget to ask the question: How can organizations translate meaningful youth participation from an ideal into practice?

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Sex Workers Rights are Human Rights

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Meaningful Youth Participation Statement HRC46

Statement by CHOICE on Meaningful Youth Participation 

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Joint Statement on Human Rights Defenders

Joint Statement  by Stichting CHOICE for Youth and Sexuality, ILGA World, Arrow and Rutgers

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International Women’s Day 2021: the Future of Young Female Leadership

This International Women's Day 2021, our Youth Ambassador spoke to two young female entrepreneurs from Nigeria and Jordan about what it means to be a young trailblazer in their fields. Because while business has come far in terms of gender equality, it also has a long way to go. Click to read the entire interview.

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Respect bodily autonomy by eradicating the mandatory waiting time period in abortion procedures!

CHOICE demands for the Dutch government to eradicate the mandatory 5-day waiting time period in abortion procedures! Choice believes that the waiting time period, in its current form, might be likely to increase emotional and psychological distress, as well as adding to the stigma surrounding abortion! We believe that womxn have the right to exercise their bodily autonomy!

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APPOINTMENT NEW YOUTH AMBASSADOR SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND RIGHTS, GENDER EQUALITY AND BODILY AUTONOMY  

CHOICE for Youth and Sexuality, in partnership with the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is very excited to announce the appointment of the new Youth Ambassador for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, 2020-2021, Lisa de Pagter! At the same time, we want to take this moment to briefly look back at a successful term of the former Youth Ambassador, Justine van de Beek.  

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The impact of Covid-19 on the transgender community

The corona measures have enormous consequences for the transgender community, both physically and emotionally. In this article, SPRINT tried to map this problem by transforming personal experiences, true stories and facts into a diary story from the perspective of a fictional character.

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SOGI Statement at the Human Rights Council

Last week one of our esteemed Youth Advocates, as part of the Right Here Right Now programme, delivered this statement to the UN Human Rights Council and the Independent Expert on SOGI (sexual orientation and gender identity). The statement was addressing the Expert’s report on Conversion Therapy; a harmful practice that aims to ‘change’ the sexuality of someone (but in practice causes severe mental, physical, and social distress). We were pleased with the opportunity to address the Human Rights Council on this issue, as conversion therapy predominantly targets young people. See our report on Conversion Therapy here.

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