Save the children, sex-affective education needed in schools

Introduce affectivity and sexuality education in schools to combat the feminicide emergency. Save the children calls for this. 'In just 48 hours,' the association notes, 'two girls have been killed. Sara Campanella and Ilaria Sula lost their lives at the hands of blind and brutal violence, the same violence that creeps into the behaviour of young people every day. The research 'Are the girls all right?', released about a year ago, had highlighted an alarming fact: for more than one in two teenagers, damaging and violent attitudes are detected in romantic relationships'. 'The events of these days,' Save the Children emphasises, 'only confirm this. We can no longer remain silent. Sexual-affective education in schools is essential to build healthy relationships and prevent violence. Yet, only 47% of adolescents received sex education at school and for 1 in 3 it was reduced to a sporadic intervention in the classroom. This is unacceptable. We must act, now, so that young people learn to recognise and stop violence from an early age. Faced with these broken lives,' he adds, 'we strongly demand a law to make affectivity and sexuality education compulsory in schools. We cannot wait any longer, we cannot count the victims'.