UN Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs,
with support from the UN Population Fund (UNFPA)
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| UN Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, with support from the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) |
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Bolivia Expert Group Meeting Set for January Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia will be the site of the final expert group meeting being convened in preparation for the International Conference on Population and Development, 1994. The Meeting, which will address population distribution and migration, will take place from 18-22 January 1993. Scholars, public officials and representatives of international, inter- and non-governmental organizations will gather to analyse the causes as well as the implications of recent population movements. One of the major themes of the Expert Group Meeting will be how to meet the challenges of an urban-based world of the future and the problems posed by rapid rates of urbanization in much of the developing world. Experts will review historical and cross-sectional perspectives of urbanization, analyse distribution patterns in each major region, examine the family dimension of migration, investigate environmental problems associated with rapid urbanization and examine the impact of population distribution policies. Another critical demographic issue which will be examined is the potential for large-scale international migration in many parts of the world. The implications of growing global economic interdependence, the disintegration of nation states, the integration of migrant communities, and specific migration patterns between regions will be discussed. The Group will also highlight safeguarding the right to asylum and the issue of refugee migration. The participants will adopt a set of action-oriented recommendations which will be submitted to the Preparatory Committee for the 1994 Conference. The Meeting, hosted by the Government of Bolivia and the Corporacion Regional de Desarrollo de Santa Cruz (CORDECRUZ), will be held at the "Centro Internacional de Formacion para el Desarrollo" (CIFD) in Santa Cruz, a study centre under the aegis of the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation.