#FLAWSINLAWS

This month-long campaign was organized in 2019 (4 October – 7 November).

It focused on encouraging young people to critically engage with the “#FlawsInLaws: Rethink My Freedoms, Reimagine my Rights, Realize my Futures” campaign, which aimed to challenge criminalization of young people’s sexuality by challenging protectionist approaches, laws, and policies affecting young people’s sexuality and the package of laws and policies that aim to “protect” young people from “sexuality-related harm” but which often criminalize their exploration of their own sexuality.

CREA worked with seven partners to conduct the campaign primarily online using images, infographics, research studies, data, stories, and lived experiences in a variety of media. These aimed to show how criminalization restricts rather than enhances, consensual sexual conduct, bodily autonomy, and identity through laws, policies, and regulations that limit access to health services (like HIV testing and treatment or contraception), age-appropriate information to sexual and reproductive health, self-arranged medical procedures (like abortion), or sexual conduct (age of consent to sex laws).

Find more about the campaign on the Challenging Criminalization website.