Publication Date: 05/07/2002

Description: The United Nations General Assembly Special Session for Children is being held in New York from May 8-10. Meeting adolescents' needs for sexual and reproductive health education and services has become a major area of contention in the session's outcome document, largely due to opposition from the United States delegation. This document includes some facts about adolescents' sexual and reproductive health, abortion around the world, and different approaches to sexuality education.