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| Population Distribution and Migration: Proceedings of the United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Population Distribution and Migration, Santa Cruz, Bolivia, 18-22 January 1993 |
Available in English only
Contains the report and recommendations of the Expert Group Meeting and the papers submitted to it. The Expert Group, which was one of the six convened as part of the substantive preparations for the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development, appraised current trends in population distribution and migration and their interrelations with development. It concluded that migration was a rational response on the part of individuals and families to interregional differences in opportunities. Urbanization was viewed as an intrinsic part of development and recommendations were made to increase government's capacity to manage urban development and respond to the needs of urban dwellers, especially the poor. Measures to increase rural productivity and improve the linkages between rural and urban areas were also proposed. With regard to international migration, the processes leading to increasing migration pressures were reviewed and suggestions were made on how to reduce them.
| Population Consensus at Cairo, Mexico City and Bucharest: An Analytical Comparison |
Available in English only
Provides a comparative analysis of the recommendations of World Population conference held at Bucharest in 1974, the International Conference on Population held at Mexico City in 1984 and the International Conference on Population and Development held at Cairo in September 1994. The analytical comparison is complemented by an index of key concepts covering the recommendations of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development.
| Population and Women: Proceedings of the United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Population and Women, Gaborone, Botswana, 22-26 June 1992 |
Available in English only
Contains the report and recommendations of the Expert Group Meeting and the papers submitted to it. The Meeting, which was one of the six convened as part of the substantive preparations for the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development, focused on linkages between enhancing the roles and socio-economic status of women and population dynamics, including adolescent pregnancy and motherhood, maternal and child health, education and employment, with particular reference to the access of women to resources, their role as environmental managers, and the provision of services. It reviewed the state of knowledge regarding those topics and, based on that review, sought in its recommendations to identify practical steps that could be taken to promote equality between women and men, that would help empower women and also have desirable economic and demographic effects.
| Review and Appraisal of the World Population Plan of Action: 1994 Report |
Available in English, French and Spanish.
Presents the results of the fourth quinquennial review and appraisal of progress made towards achieving the goals and objectives of the World Population Plan of Action adopted at the World Population Conference held at Bucharest in August 1974. Focusing on 30 selected population issues, the report provides and overall assessment of the level of implementation of the Plan of Action and appropriate background information on population trends and policies, as well as illustration of the major advances and successes in applying the provisions of the Plan of Action, the lessons learned and issues that have emerged, all of which facilitated the deliberations at the International Conference on Population and Development held at Cairo in September 1994.
| Family Planning, Health and Family Well-being: Proceedings of the United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Family Planning, Health and Family Well-being, Bangalore, India, 26-30 October 1992 |
Available in English only
Contains the report and recommendations of the Expert Group Meeting and the papers submitted to it. The Expert Group, which was one of the six convened as part of the substantive preparations for the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development, examined the linkages between family planning, health and family well-being and emphasized the need to place family planning in the wider context of quality of life of women and children, and health and welfare of the family and to shift the focus of family planning programmes from demographic targets to individual needs.
| International Migration Policies and the Status of Female Migrants |
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Contains the report and recommendations of the United Nations Expert Group Meeting on International Migration Policies and the Status of Female Migration held at San Miniato, Italy, from 28 to 31 March 1990.
| Population and Development: Programme of Action adopted at the International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, 5-13 September 1994. |
| Ageing of Asian Populations: Proceedings of the United Nations Round Table on the Ageing of Asian Populations, Bangkok, 4-6 May 1992 |
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Contains the report and recommendations of the Round Table and the keynote papers presented to it. The Round Table discussed issues related to population ageing and to the situation of the elderly at the national level.
| Population, Environment and Development: Proceedings of the United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Population, Environment and Development, New York City, 20-24 January 1992 |
Available in English only.
Contains the report and recommendations of the Expert Group Meeting and the papers submitted to it. The Expert Group, which was one of the six convened as part of the substantive preparations for the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development, appraised current trends in population and environment, focusing on their implications for sustainable development. The discussions concentrated on those areas where population growth and distribution have adverse impacts on the availability and use of key natural resources, such as freshwater, soils and forests, and on interactions of demographic factors, consumption and production patterns and global issues of increasing international concern, such as climate change and loss of biological diversity.
| Ageing and the Family: Proceedings of the United Nations International Conference on Ageing Populations in the Context of the Family, Kitakyushu (Japan), 15-19 October 1990 |
Contains the reports and recommendations of the conference and a selection of the papers that were discussed. Also included is the Kitakyushu City Declaration on Population Ageing in the context of the Family, which was adopted on 19 October 1990, affirming that an important objective of socio-economic development is an age-integrated society where bonds of kinship and linkages between generations are strengthened. The Conference discussed such demographic issues as changes in marital status, patterns of migration and household structure; social and economic issues (e.g., the changing status and roles of the elderly, evolving family structures and inter-family transfers of assets); issues pertaining to family support (e.g., the respective roles to be played by the family and the public sector, especially regarding public support for family caregivers and the implications of the changing status and roles of women; and, finally, such housing-related issues as the effect of ageing families on housing conditions and policies and programmes to promote family care.
| Internal Migration of Women in Developing Countries: Proceedings of the United Nations Expert Group Meeting on the Feminization of Internal Migration |
Available in English only
Contains the report and recommendations of the Expert Group Meeting and the papers submitted to it. The purposes of the Meeting were to elucidate in which circumstances migration leads to improvements of the status of women and to formulate policy guidelines on women's issues in relation to migration.
| Population Policies and Programmes: Proceedings of the United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Population Policies and Programmes, Cairo, Egypt, 12-16 April 1992 |
Available in English only.
Contains the report and recommendations of the Expert Group Meeting and the papers submitted to it. The Meeting, which was one of the six convened as part of the substantive preparations for the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development, examined the policy implications to be derived from the current state of knowledge concerning the complex interrelationships between population policies and programmes, patterns of development and the mobilization of resources at the national and international levels.
| Consequences of Rapid Population Growth in Developing Countries |
Available in English and French; the French version was published by INED (price: 150 French francs).
Contains the proceedings of and selected papers presented at the United Nations/Institut national d'etudes démographiques (INED) Expert Group Meeting on Consequences of Rapid Population Growth, held in New York from 23 to 26 August 1988.
| Ageing and Urbanization: Proceedings of the United Nations International Conference on Ageing Populations in the Context of Urbanization, Sendai (Japan), 12-16 September 1988 |
Available in English only.
Presents the report and recommendations of the Conference, which reviewed the issues associated with changing age structure from the point of view of cities and other urban structures, as well as a selection of the discussion papers. The volume also contains the Sendai Declaration of Aging Populations in the Context of Urbanization, which was adopted on 15 September 1988, Japan's Day of Respect for the Elderly, and which reaffirmed that an age integrated society, with true solidarity among the generations, must be an important objective of socio-economic development.
| International Transmission of Population Policy Experience |
Available in English only
Contains the report and recommendations of the Expert Group Meeting on the International Transmission of Population Policy Experience, held in New York from 27 to 30 June 1988 under the joint sponsorship of the United Nations and the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP). The Meeting was convened to survey and assess critically the existing state of activities, primarily but not exclusively conducted by international agencies that monitor population policies in individual countries and that seek to provide information on such policies in a comparative framework. Primary areas of concern included the collection of population policy data, the classification or taxonomy to be used to deal with this information, the comparative analyses of those data and the transmission of the results and conclusions of those analyses. Building on such an assessment, the Meeting developed specific recommendations directed to increasing the efficiency and timeliness with which international population policy data are collected, analysed and transmitted to interested Governments, researchers and the general public.
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