GIRLS HAVE A RIGHT TO EDUCATION
ABOUT THEIR HEALTH AND BODIES
Comprehensive sex education is in jeopardy worldwide. This is a serious problem; sex education is one of the best ways to mitigate teen pregnancy, which is a top reason girls drop out of school.
And yet:
Only 50% of teenage moms in the U.S. earn their high school diplomas by age 22; that's in comparison to the 90% graduation rate by girls who do not give birth. [Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]
Only 42.8% of all high schools and 17.6% of middle schools in the U.S. provide all topics identified by the CDC as critical sex education topics. [Source: SIECUS: Sex Ed for Social Change]
More than 23 million girls around the globe become pregnant each year. [Source: World Health Organization]