Fast forward 40 years later, the International Commission of Jurists, affiliated with the UN, published a report claiming that “sexual conduct involving persons below the domestically prescribed minimum age of consent to sex may be consensual in fact, if not in law.” According to the ICJ, “criminal law should reflect the rights and capacity of persons under 18 years of age to make decisions about engaging in consensual sexual conduct and their right to be heard in matters concerning them.”

This report was the result of a meeting with ICJ, UNAIDS, and the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Members of both UNAIDS and the pretentiously named Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights are among the “endorsers and supporters” listed in the report.