Some schools in Northern Ireland are teaching pupils that homosexuality is wrong in relationships and sex education says NIHRC report
The NIHRC was established following the Good Friday Agreement.Its investigation into relationships and sex education focused mainly on legal and policy matters but it also made recommendations on delivery of the subject in schools.
In 2018, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women said RSE in Northern Ireland should be compulsory and comprehensive.making teaching topics like abortion and prevention of pregnancy compulsory in schools in Northern Ireland.He said he had a legal duty to act on the recommendations made in the CEDAW report.The NIHRC investigation into RSE was carried out before Mr Heaton-Harris's move.
The NIHRC said that the majority of schools who submitted their RSE policy to the investigation "still promoted the value of the 'sanctity of marriage'", and related terms, such as "permanent committed sexual relationship", and "married love" in their RSE policies and school ethos. The NIHRC said about two-thirds of post-primaries taught pupils about contraception, but it was difficult to know if they offered accurate information.In their RSE policies, some schools stated that "they will present the Catholic teaching that 'the use of any artificial means of preventing procreation is not acceptable'," the report said.
One third of schools who provided information to the NIHRC said their school would teach pupils that "heterosexual relationships was the 'main' or 'ideal' context for sexual intimacy".
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