Yasmine Aburaya, MENA Region, Women of the South Speak Out (WOSSO) Fellow, Egypt
Despite Egypt’s formal commitments to youth rights and international frameworks like the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) remains largely absent from the national curriculum. What exists is fragmented, outdated, and shaped more by fear, control, and moral panic than by rights, science, or lived realities.
This paper explores the barriers to implementing CSE in Egypt’s formal education system and highlights how institutional silence, gender norms, and misinformation continue to endanger young people’s health and autonomy.
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