One Voice - different colors, By Sadaf Nasim - Pakistani youth volunteer
We are strengthening our commitment to young people; they are sexual beings with the right to access services and contraceptives.
We challenge practices and cultural norms that are harmful to young people, as well as acting as a catalyst for a global youth movement, which aims to change attitudes and improve the knowledge of legal and political policy-makers, and community leaders.
We are faced with societies that prefer to deny that young people have sex at all, despite the evidence of very real results.
Young pregnant women are expelled from school, others are killed by their male relatives.
Young women are resorting to backstreet abortion, the level of sexually transmitted infections is increasing and the under 25s account for half of all new HIV infections.
To find out how we work with young people on all of the issues that concern them, choose from the following:
Abortion- about the right to choose and have access to safe abortion
HIV and AIDS – about dynamic new approaches to this epidemic that involve young people
Rights – about giving young people the right to make responsible decisions
Sexuality – about the right to a happy, healthy sex life
