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Mag een basisschool zich bezighouden met de seksuele opvoeding van kinderen? Deze vraag houdt Amerika momenteel in de ban. Vorige week verscheen een artikel op PBS Newshour, de grootste nieuwszender van Amerika over ‘the Dutch approach’. Binnen de kortste keren scoort het artikel op Facebook 3,8 miljoen weergaven, is het 65.000 keer gedeeld en krijgt 19.000 likes. Een uitzending van Fox-tv een paar dagen later gooit nog wat extra olie op het vuur. Amerikanen buitelen over elkaar heen met argumenten voor en tegen de Nederlandse aanpak.

During a Summit from 25-27 September, the world’s governments adopt the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: the result of a lengthy process of intergovernmental negotiations and consultations that lasted almost three years.

In 2013, Rutgers conducted a study to investigate the sexual health of lesbian women, gay men, bisexual men and women and trans people in the Netherlands. Nearly 5,000 people participated in this first nation-wide study amongst these groups.

Today UNFPA and Rutgers launched the State of the World Population report 2015 in the Netherlands. The report 'Shelter From the Storm: A transformative agenda for women and girls in a crisis-prone world' was presented by Arthur Erken, Director of UNFPA’s Division of Communications and Strategic Partnerships, to Jelte van Wieren, Director of the Stabilization and Humanitarian Aid Department at the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The innovative programme MenCare+ will receive a follow-up grant for Prevention+. Liliane Ploumen, Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation, is making funds available from FLOW II (Funding Leadership and Opportunities for Women). Prevention+ focusses on involving (young) men in order to reduce violence against women, and to improve the economic participation and self-sufficiency of women.

Sometimes, in the fight for sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), we forget to look in our own backyard. The debate on paternity leave in the Netherlands continues to be a hot-button topic, especially with the upcoming elections. Whereas maternity leave is considered to be an inalienable right, many people are divided or even undecided about the same rights for fathers. In trying to maintain a dialogue about this subject, it’s clear that a political, cultural and economic shift is needed in our country.

Sex under the age of 25 is a large representative study of Dutch adolescents’ sexual health with a participatory action approach, which Rutgers conducted in 2012. In 2005, a comparable study was carried out.

Netherlands Minister of Social Affairs, Mr. Asscher, received the Dutch country report of State of the World’s Fathers at a daycare centre in Amsterdam on the morning of 17 June.

The documentary 'Sex in Class' in Great Britain has proven that young people need to counterbalance what young people 'learn' from porn, that they learn about their own bodies and how their body works, that boys and girls share their views and opinions about sexuality, and that girls especially, learn to speak up for themselves. Has the time come for the Dutch Approach?

In the context of the Dutch subsidy system MFS II (Co-financing II) unique evaluations have been carried out worldwide with regard to the results of developing programmes of 64 Dutch development organisations.

In a recent survey carried out by Keystone Accountability Rutgers partner organisations rate Rutgers 9th out of 70 international NGOs (INGOs) worldwide and 4th out of 10 of Dutch INGOs in terms of ‘overall satisfaction’.

On May 19th Rutgers will give a special lesson on sexuality education to a committee from the Dutch Parliament, which has caused quite a stir. Rutgers will be accompanied by sexologist and television personality Goedele Liekens and a group of students. During the lesson Rutgers will promote the idea that empowerment should become an integral part of the primary goals i in education regarding sexuality and relationships. Rutgers hopes that the Netherlands will continue to encourage other countries to address this issue as well.

Rutgers is pleased about Minister Ploumen’s initiative to counter the effects of the Global Gag Rule. She shows that in the best of Dutch tradition, we would like the Netherlands to take the lead in fighting for sexual and reproductive health and rights. President Trump’s decision to stop donors financing all charities and funds that may only touch on abortion, will affect millions of women and girls. Ploumen’s proposal is therefore very much needed, indeed.

Most Dutch people are happy with their sex lives according to a large-scale study carried out by Rutgers. That more men than women enjoy sex is one of the main results shown in the study Sexual Health in The Netherlands 2017 which was published January 15th 2018. In particular, men over 70 and women below 25 experience sexual problems. The results also confirm that sexual coercion occurs frequently. A substantial number of homosexual and bisexual men have ever been verbally abused due to their sexual orientation. Furthermore, almost everyone agrees that sexual education should be obligatory in school.