(See also “Youth, Bali Global Youth Declaration,” “Children, Distortion of Rights,” “Youth Led,” and “Youth Friendly”)
Overview
Increasingly, youth are being manipulated by adults who use them to advance sexual rights and abortion policies. International activist groups and UN agencies like Planned Parenthood and UNFPA regularly train and groom youth to promote radical sexual and gender ideologies at the United Nations and around the world and then insist that the UN and governments have to listen to them and take their sometimes militant views into account citing a “right to participate” and a “right to be heard” in government policies. They claim youth have autonomous “sexual rights” and abortion rights that emanate from the right to health.
A good example of this distortion of rights for youth is the “Bali Global Youth Forum Declaration” allegedly drafted by youth. (See “Youth, Bali Global Youth Declaration.”)
Rather than advancing these fictitious rights for youth, a more constructive approach would be to focus on the true rights and fundamental needs of youth such as basic education, nutrition, medical care, counseling to avoid gangs, crime, drugs, and sexual activity before marriage, job preparation and training, employment, preventing out-of-wedlock pregnancies, etc.