by United Nations, New York, 1995, 300 pages.
The papers in the present volume document the many facets of women's participation in international migration. The picture that emerges is one of variety and dynamism. Women, just as men, choose to migrate for multiple reasons and must negotiate admission by the receiving countries on the terms set by the latter. In many instances, the socially sanctioned "dependent" position of women increases their opportunities for admission. Dependency, however, is not the most desirable basis on which to start a new life in new surroundings. Yet, despite such handicaps, migrant women evince considerable resilience and manage to make the most of the opportunities that migration opens to them.
Global Population Policy Data Base 1993
by United Nations, New York, 1995.
This publication describes a database entitled "Global Review and Inventory of Population Policy", 1993, which is available on diskette. The purpose of the database is to provide current data on the population policies of 190 countries, drawn from the Population Policy Data Bank maintained by the Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis of the United Nations Secretariat. The policy topics covered are population growth, mortality, fertility, internal migration, immigration and emigration. The diskette contains not only data on population policy but information on selected demographic indicators, including current and projected population size, current levels of fertility and mortality and current population growth rates. The focus of this publication is descriptive. A more analytical treatment of population policies, which synthesizes the individual country data at the global and regional levels, is available in "World Population Monitoring 1993".
Report of the UNFPA Country Support Team for East and South-East Asia. Technical Workshop on the Implications of the ICPD Programme of Action adopted at the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development, Pattaya, Thailand, 3-7 January 1995
by United Nations Population Fund, Country Support
Team (CST) for South-East Asia, Bangkok, March 1995, 41 pages. The publication contains report of the Technical Workshop, the major objectives of which were: a) to conduct a full interdisciplinary view of the different subject/thematic recommendations of the International Conference on Population and Development, Programme of Action and their implications for East and South-East Asian countries, and b) to achieve a unified Team understanding of the concepts, approaches and methodologies for each major subject area/substantive programme area covered by the Team, and to develop ways to build up inter-sectoral linkages and apply interdisciplinarity as part of a holistic programme approach.
The views, recommendations and suggestions advanced in this report reflect the collective thinking of CST. Their acceptance at country level will naturally depend first of all on the Governments, and as far as the UNFPA-supported country programmes are concerned, on the UNFPA Country Directors and Representatives.
Summary of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development
by United Nations, New York, 1995, 27 pages.
This publication contains the summary of the Programme of Action on population and development for the next 20 years. This programme of action adopted at the International Conference on Population and development endorses a new strategy which emphasizes the numerous linkages between population and development and focuses on meeting the needs of individual women and men rather than on achieving demographic targets.
Key to this new approach is empowering women and providing them with more choices through expanded access to education and health services and promoting skill development and employment.
The Programme of Action includes goals in regard to education, especially for girls, and for the further reduction of infant, child and maternal mortality levels. It also addresses issues relating to population, the environment and consumption patterns; the family; internal and international migration; prevention and control of the HIV/AIDS pandemic; information, education and communication; and technology, research and development.
World Urbanization Prospects: The 1994 Revision. Estimates and Projections of Urban and Rural Populations and of Urban Agglomerations
by the United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis, Population Division, New York, 1995, 177 pages.
This publication presents the results of the United Nations 1994 Revision of the estimates and projections of urban and rural populations and of urban agglomerations for major areas, regions and countries of the world. The publication contains analyses of the growth and structure of urban agglomerations throughout the world. It also presents levels of urbanization and future trends for the urban and rural populations of the world, the less developed and the more developed regions and individual countries. It also lists the sources of data that underline the estimations of urban population. The final section of the volume contains 17 annex tables that provide a wealth of detail about the characteristics of urban and rural population and urban agglomerations.