Advocates for Youth envisions a society that views sexuality as normal and healthy and treats young people as a valuable resource.
RIGHTS: Youth have rights to accurate and complete sexual health information, confidential reproductive and sexual health services, and a secure stake in the future.
RESPECT: Youth deserve respect. Today, young people are largely perceived as part of the problem. Valuing young people means they are part of the solution and are included in developing programs and policies that affect their well-being.
RESPONSIBILITY: Society has the responsibility to provide young people with the tools they need to safeguard their sexual health, and young people have the responsibility to protect themselves from too-early childbearing and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV.
Rights. Respect. Responsibility: it’s so sensible. Yet it is a radical departure from the status quo of censorship of information about sexuality; hypocrisy from the media, culture, and elected officials; and youth exclusion from decision-making.
Through Amplify, youth around the world can work together to help achieve this vision. Young people will come together to demand reproductive justice, access to information and services for all young people, and a more open, honest approach to sex and sexuality. We’ll show our communities and elected officials that when we are given our rights and when we are respected, we will act responsibly.
Learn more about the 3Rs philosophy
Learn more about the 3Rs philosophy
