Youth Parliament Resolution - "Sexual Education and LGBT"

Topic - "Sexual education and LGBT"

The Youth Parliament in Vranje,

- after carefully considering the situation of sexual education in Serbia

- having regard to the current Serbian law on education

- having regard to the situation of the LGBT population

A. coming to the conclusion that the Serbian society and especially Vranje’s citizens have difficulty in expecting the fact that the LGBT community exists

B. observing that Serbian citizens are still not awake and are educated old-fashionably and that the citizens of Vranje do not presently want to coexist with the LGBT population

C. recognising that most of the homophobes are exactly resident gays and do not express their real opinion and situation because they feel endangered

D. underlining the fact that increasing sexual diseases is happening mostly because there is not enough education among young people

E. agreeing that adolescents behave irresponsibly towards sexual matters without thinking about the consequences

F. deeply concerned about the lack of information at home and at school about sexual education

G. believing that when a problem happens the young people are usually frightened of being rejected

H. worried about the fact that sex without protection of people being HIV positive can lead to infect innocent people and is worried to see that they often don’t care

I. alarmed by the fact that children prematurely consent to sexual intercourse

J. agreeing that the main aims as European Youth Representatives are to make LGBT a more accepted term in Vranje and in Serbia in general, and to inform young people about sexual education,

1. draws attention that Serbian youth should be informed that nowadays sex carries numerous diseases and that some of them are still incurable, such as AIDS

2. urges the Serbian government to introduce new and modern school programmes involving sexual education in order to raise alertness to the problems of abortion and sexually transmissible diseases among other problems

3. calls the Serbian government to add one hour class about sexual education in order to inform primary school children about sex and its possible negative side-effects

4. further recommends that these sexual education classes should include the LGBT issue

5. urges the Serbian government to bring laws that forbid any violent behaviour during meetings such as Gay Pride and which are made especially towards the LGBT population

6. requests from the local government of Vranje to support the organisation of lectures about the LGBT issue in a public building of the city, where people can come and learn more about the topic