#FLAWSINLAWS
This month-long campaign was organized in 2019 (4 October–7 November) to challenge criminalization of young people’s sexuality.
The “#FlawsInLaws: Rethink My Freedoms, Reimagine My Rights, Realize my Futures” campaign encouraged young people to challenge protectionist approaches, laws and policies that aim to “protect” young people from “sexuality-related harm” but instead often criminalize healthy exploration of their own sexuality.
CREA developed the online campaign with seven partners using a variety of media images, infographics, research studies, data, stories and lived experiences. These materials all aimed to show how criminalization restricts rather than enhances consensual sexual conduct, bodily autonomy and identity.
Such laws, policies, and regulations actually limit access to health services (e.g. HIV testing and treatment or contraception), age-appropriate information on sexual and reproductive health, self-arranged medical procedures (e.g. abortion) or sexual conduct (e.g. age of consent).
