Dhaka, June 12 -- Comprehensive sexuality education is an essential part of a good quality education that improves reproductive health and contributes to gender equality, argues Facing the Facts.

"Facing the Facts" is a new policy paper by the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report at Unesco that seeks to dispel social and political resistance to sexuality education in many countries.

Globally, each year, 15 million girls marry before the age of 18, some 16 million 15-19 year olds and one million girls under 15 give birth, according to a media release received here from Paris on Wednesday.

Young people moreover account for a third of new HIV infections among adults and across 37 low and middle-income countries, yet only approximately...