Sex Education, Parental Authority and Freedom of Conscience: The Jimenez case (1999)

Authors

  • Rodrigo Cespedes Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7764/RLDR.17.176

Keywords:

sex education, parental rights, proportionality, gender studies, human rights treaties, European Convention on Human Rights

Abstract

This paper analyzes a decision by the European Court of Human Rights on sexual education in schools. The Court declared the case inadmissible because, in its opinion, there was no discrimination and the parents’ rights were not infringed since the module on sex education provided objective information about the sexual diversity and did not advocate any form of sexual behavior.

Published

2023-12-31