Sexuality: universal human right
J.J. Borrás Valls, Mª Pérez Conchillo

SUMMARY

In 1997, the Valencia Declaration of Human Sexual Rights was presented as part of the conclusions of the 13th World Congress of Sexology, organized in Valencia, Spain. Two years later, in 1999, this Valencia Declaration was revised and assumed by the World Association for Sexology (WAS) General Assembly as Universal Declaration of the Sexual Rights. In 2000, the OMS took the sexual rights as base for the elaboration of a document on Promotion of the Sexual Health. In spite of all these efforts, we still live in a world far from the full attention and respect to the human sexual rights. Nevertheless, promulgation of the sexual rights had such impact that stimulates to WAS and its multiple entities and associated professionals to continue working to make evident that the sexual rights are also human rights.

KEY WORDS

Human rights; sexuality; sexual behavior; health.