Parliamentarians from five Pacific nations met in Wellington on 29 June to consider how better to involve boys and men in sexual and reproductive health in the Pacific.
Presenters at the hearing included the United Nations Population Fund (UNPFA), International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), the Tonga Family Health Association, the Kiribati Health Association, and a male youth representative from Kiribati.
The secretariat for the assembly was the New Zealand Family Planning Association, [FPA].
Twenty-three-year-old David Kakiakia from Kiribati has been trained by Family Planning New Zealand to advocate for sexual reproductive health or SRH education.
In the open forum he said religious beliefs were stopping parents from sharing vital sexual health information to their sons.
He told Daniela Maoate-Cox of Radio New Zealand that talking about sex conflicts with parents’ religious views.
Right to Life says it is disappointed that the New Zealand government is funding a culture of death by funding the UNFPA and IPPF.
It says these organisations are at the forefront of the war on women and the international anti-life agenda to promote contraception, sterilisation and abortion.
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