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Experts Debate Women's Position

Experts Debate Women's Position 



The Expert Group Meeting on Women and Population will take place in 

Gaborone, Botswana from 22-26 June 1992. The meeting will focus on linkages 

between the role and socio-economic status of women and population dynamics. 

The sessions will address the following topics: women's health and 

mortality; women, fertility and family planning; the demographic impact of 

educating girls; women's economic activity and fertility behaviour; and, 

women, population and the environment.



The meeting will bring together experts from developing and developed 

countries having both research and operational experience in the area of 

women, population and development. Permeating all the discussions will be a 

consideration of women's position in various societies, how their situations 

have been changing and the aspects of those changes that are associated with 

recent demographic trends. It is expected that the exchanges at this meeting 

will lead to the formulation of recommendations, based on practical 

experience and scientifically grounded research, to be forwarded to the 

International Conference on Population and Development, 1994.



The Expert Group Meeting will be opened by the Honourable Festus Mogae, Vice 

President and Minister of Finance and Planning. Dr. Nafis Sadik, the 

Secretary General of the 1994 Conference, will address the opening session. 

The Honourable Patrick Balopi, Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, will 

preside at the closing ceremony.