TARSHI Delhi
TARSHI (Talking About Reproductive and Sexual Health Issues) works towards expanding sexual and reproductive choices in people’s lives in an effort to enable them to enjoy freedom from fear, infection and reproductive and sexual health problems. TARSHI’s work on sexuality is from an affirmative and rights based perspective, a fresh change from perspectives that often restrict sexuality within a disease prevention, violence against women, or sexual minorities framework.
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The motivation for this paper lies in TARSHI’s belief that CSE is vital to ensuring adolescents’ and young people’s health and rights today. We release the paper in exciting times, as people, schools and governments increasingly realise the importance of talking to young people about sexuality, but aren’t sure how to start, what to say or who should be leading the conversation. Indeed, in our work we have come to realise that there is no common, coherent understanding of CSE, which makes it difficult to develop strategies that offer this important information to young people in a sustained way.
This paper builds an understanding of CSE that is rooted in a rights-based perspective, proposing what we believe should be content that any CSE programme in India must include, even as we recognise the diversity of socio-cultural contexts within the country. There is a lot of interest among policymakers, researchers, educators and young people themselves on SE, so we hope that this paper adds to the body of understanding on CSE in India and inspires more work towards giving young people accurate and non-judgmental information on sexuality, so that they can lead healthier and happier lives.
Do share your feedback when you have had an opportunity to read the paper, and feel free to share the link to the paper to those who may be interested: tinyurl.com/TARSHI-CSE-paper.
If you would like to share this working paper on social media, please tag us (our social media handles are at the end of this email) with a link to the paper.
The motivation for this paper lies in TARSHI’s belief that CSE is vital to ensuring adolescents’ and young people’s health and rights today. We release the paper in exciting times, as people, schools and governments increasingly realise the importance of talking to young people about sexuality, but aren’t sure how to start, what to say or who should be leading the conversation. Indeed, in our work we have come to realise that there is no common, coherent understanding of CSE, which makes it difficult to develop strategies that offer this important information to young people in a sustained way.
This paper builds an understanding of CSE that is rooted in a rights-based perspective, proposing what we believe should be content that any CSE programme in India must include, even as we recognise the diversity of socio-cultural contexts within the country. There is a lot of interest among policymakers, researchers, educators and young people themselves on SE, so we hope that this paper adds to the body of understanding on CSE in India and inspires more work towards giving young people accurate and non-judgmental information on sexuality, so that they can lead healthier and happier lives.
Do share your feedback when you have had an opportunity to read the paper, and feel free to share the link to the paper to those who may be interested: tinyurl.com/TARSHI-CSE-paper.
If you would like to share this working paper on social media, please tag us (our social media handles are at the end of this email) with a link to the paper.