UN Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs,
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ICPD 94
Newsletter of the International Conference on Population and
Development
No. 9
September-October 1993
IN THIS ISSUE
+ General Assembly to Discuss Cairo Document Outline
+ Norway's Prime Minister pledges to come to Cairo
+ News In Brief
+ National Reports Coming In
+ Fonda Speaks on ICPD Goals
+ Pacific Region Prepares for Cairo
+ Women's Perspectives on Reproductive Issues Heard
+ Maghreb Countries Adopt Population Action Plan
+ Iran Hosts Regional Meeting on Family Planning
+ News from the NGOs
+ IUSSP Takes up ICPD Issues
+ Calendar of Upcoming Events
GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO DISCUSS ICPD FINAL DOCUMENT OUTLINE
On 4 November, the International Conference on Population
and Development will be the focus of debate in the Second Committee
of the forty-eighth United Nations General Assembly. For at least
two of its half-day meetings, the Second Committee will direct its
attention to a progress report on ICPD preparations and an
annotated outline of the draft final Conference document.
In an introductory statement to the Committee, the
Secretary- General of ICPD, Dr. Nafis Sadik, is expected to
describe the process through which the 42-page annotated outline is
to be turned into a draft of the final document. Debate will then
centre on the outline's overall emphasis and specific content,
giving delegates the opportunity to comment on aspects of
particular interest to their countries. The United Nations Economic
and Social Council, in ECOSOC resolution 1993/76 of 30 July 1993,
requested that such an outline be prepared for the General
Assembly.
Many delegates and other interested parties at the second
session of ICPD's Preparatory Committee (PrepCom II) requested that
documentation be made available at the earliest possible
opportunity. Towards this end, the ICPD Secretariat in late
September widely distributed the final, unedited "yellow copy"
versions of the nine-page Conference progress report (A/48/430) and
the annotated outline (A/48/430 Add 1), soon after they had been
submitted to the United Nations Secretariat's Office of Conference
Services for editing, translation and processing. (This "yellow
copy" mechanism has been used successfully in recent years for
advance distribution of all UNDP and all UNFPA Governing Council
documents.)
Copies of the ICPD progress report and the annotated outline
can be obtained from the ICPD Secretariat.
The annotated outline is already a substantial document,
addressing a wide range of Conference issues and indicating
priorities among them. Its 17 chapters follow the format of and
reflect many of the key points contained in the comprehensive
summary of PrepCom II written by the Chairman of the Preparatory
Committee. The ICPD Secretariat is preparing a first draft of the
final document for Cairo based on the annotated outline; it will be
guided in this effort by the General Assembly's suggestions and
recommendations.
The first draft of the final document will be taken up by
the third session of the ICPD Preparatory Committee, to be held in
New York from 4 to 22 April 1994. To ensure that delegations and
other interested parties have ample time to study it before then,
the draft is due to be released in all official languages by early
February.
Because of the very tight deadlines and the magnitude of the
endeavour, work on the first draft of the final document has
already commenced. The ICPD Secretariat plans to complete the draft
before 1 January 1994--it will be available in "yellow copy" form
at that time--and submit it to the United Nations for translating
and processing.
Any delegation or other interested party that has comments,
suggestions, or proposed language regarding any of the currently
envisioned 17 chapters of the first draft is urged to convey them
to the ICPD Secretariat as soon as possible, and by 1 December at
the latest.
The Secretary-General of the Conference and many others have
indicated that the final ICPD document should be focused and
action-oriented, and stand on its own; it should address key
population issues and their interrelationships with sustained
economic growth, sustainable development and gender equality, in a
20-year time frame. Such a document must be concise and accessible;
limit its recommendations to addressing the most important needs in
a clearly-worded, realistic manner; and include the means of
implementation, commitments and follow-up agreed to at Cairo.
***
NORWAY'S P.M. WILL COME TO CAIRO
Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland has agreed to
attend the International Conference on Population and Development
next year. The eminent campaigner for sustainable development made
the pledge before an assembly at the United Nations on 28
September, after delivering the fifth annual Rafael M. Salas
Memorial Lecture.
Her commitment to come to Cairo, given spontaneously in
response to two audience members' questions, was warmly welcomed by
ICPD Secretary-General Dr. Nafis Sadik and Egyptian Deputy
Assistant Foreign Minister Raouf Saad. Both expressed the hope that
other world leaders would follow her lead.
The theme of Ms. Brundtland's speech--sponsored by the
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in memory of that
organization's first Executive Director--was "Population,
Environment and Development" and the "shared but unequal
responsibility" of all nations to support efforts to slow
population growth.
"Unless we accept that the population explosion is the most
serious, predictable and intractable crisis facing us," the Prime
Minister cautioned, "we shall not be able to avoid it."
Ms. Brundtland, who chaired the World Commission on
Environment and Development and was the chief author of its
influential 1987 report, "Our Common Future", said the attainment
of population goals required changes in production and consumption
patterns in the industrialized countries, as well as increased
support for meeting basic human needs in developing countries.
"Population is not about numbers alone; it is about the
relationship between people and resources; it is about how
resources are consumed; it is about how wealth and opportunity are
distributed, and how we can provide more hope for the future."
Limiting population growth, Ms. Brundtland contended,
depends on developing human resources, extending family planning,
and empowering women. "Experience shows," she stated, "that
investing in women is one of the most cost-effective ways of
promoting development", resulting in "reduced poverty, better child
and family welfare, and lower birth rates."
"There is no better insurance policy for developed and
developing countries than funding population and family planning
programmes," she maintained, while warning of "aid fatigue" in some
donor countries. "Norway has been deplorably alone among developed
countries in meeting internationally agreed targets for both family
planning aid and overall development assistance," she noted.
Her country was also out in front of other industrial
nations in efforts to reduce consumption of energy and resources,
Ms. Brundtland said; consequently, business leaders complain that
Norway's tax on carbon dioxide emissions makes their products
uncompetitively priced. "Changing consumption is far from easy. But
we should begin by recognizing that lowering consumption of natural
resources does not mean lowering the standard of living."
In addressing the need to expand the availability of family
planning services in developing countries, the Norwegian leader
denounced those seeking to block this effort on moral grounds:
"Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers suffering
or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal
abortions, and unwanted children living in misery." Citing
successes in reducing fertility in Thailand, Indonesia and Italy,
she observed, "Traditional religious and cultural obstacles can be
overcome by economic and social development."
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IN BRIEF
The 110-member Non-Aligned Movement will produce its
perspectives on ICPD issues at a special Ministerial Meeting on
Population of the Non-Aligned Countries, to take place in Denpasar,
Indonesia, from 9-13 November. Senior officials will meet on 9-10
November and ministers on 12-13 November.
The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)
will hold a Ministerial Conference on Women and Family Health, in
Kathmandu from 21-23 November 1993. Special emphasis will be placed
on women's reproductive health, its relationships with family
planning and birth spacing, and the role and status of women. The
deliberations are expected to provide important input into ICPD
preparations.
-- -- --
Meeting in July for the first time, the Caribbean Working
Group on Population and Development--representing Guyana, Jamaica,
the Netherlands Antilles, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the
Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago--called for full political
support for ICPD and its preparatory activities. The Working Group,
under the aegis of the Economic Commission for Latin America and
the Caribbean, produced a framework for a Caribbean Plan of Action
on Population and Development, identifying priority issues,
strategies and mechanisms for technical and financial cooperation.
When the Working Group meets again in Curacao on 2-3 December, a
draft of the plan will be prepared for incorporation into the Latin
America and the Caribbean Regional Plan of Action. Members will
also work to place population and development on the agenda of the
1994 Caribbean Community Heads of Government Conference.
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United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, in
his 1993 annual report on the work of the Organization, takes note
of the preparations for ICPD, "a conference which will take up the
challenge of people-centred development." In reporting on the
activities of the United Nations Population Fund, the Secretary-
General notes that "an increasing number of countries are now
linking population issues to national development policies and
priorities."
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To promote ICPD, a colourful brochure describing the aims
and organization of the Conference is available in Arabic, English,
French and Spanish. ICPD buttons have also been produced. Available
soon will be a media briefing kit containing short articles on the
ICPD mandate and process; population, the environment and
development; gender equality; reproductive health and family
planning; demographic challenges; implementation of Conference
recommendations; and a calendar of ICPD-related events. These
materials may be obtained from the ICPD Secretariat.
***
DRAFTING OF NATIONAL REPORTS YIELDS DIVIDENDS
One of the most significant ICPD preparatory activities is
the drafting by over 100 countries of national reports on
population. The information in these reports will be important both
for future policy formulation and programme implementation in each
country, and as contributions to the Conference. The process of
producing the reports has already produced dividends, for example,
by involving many sectors of government in discussions of
population and development issues.
The ICPD Secretariat is currently analysing the national
reports and will formulate a Synthesis Report highlighting their
principal themes and salient features. The Synthesis Report will
also discuss demographic and development trends in relation to
national policies, legislation, regulations, incentives and
programmes; examine the results of various approaches to similar
problems and constraints taken in different countries and contexts;
and indicate possible directions to be taken in the future.
A draft of the Synthesis Report will be prepared for the
third session of the ICPD Preparatory Committee (PrepCom III) and
the final version will be ready for the Conference itself.
Countries are encouraged to distribute copies of their national
reports to participants at both PrepCom III and the Conference. At
each event, an area will be made available for this purpose.
Deadlines for submission of national reports and the
complementary data forms were 30 September and 15 October 1993,
respectively. The ICPD Secretariat has requested that each country
provide five hard copies plus one diskette copy.
***
`DEFINING DECADE' FOR POPULATION, SAYS FONDA
American actress Jane Fonda, Goodwill Ambassador for the
United Nations Population Fund, challenged listeners at United
Nations headquarters on 20 September to use the 1990s as a
"defining decade" for stabilizing the world's population.
She set out four goals:
+ Universal access to family planning by the end of the
decade;
+ Altering the underlying conditions that lead to large
families;
+ Slowing the demographic momentum by addressing the needs of
young people in regard to their sexuality; and
+ Encouraging and enabling all countries to develop national
carrying capacity assessments, comparing population with
available national resources.
Ms. Fonda delivered her 50-minute message to an attentive,
standing-room-only crowd in one of the United Nations' largest
conference rooms.
"We do know that right now approximately 1 billion people do
not get enough food to function.... And we do know that we are
dipping into one-time-only natural capital in the form of topsoil,
water and fossil fuels which took billions of years to accumulate,"
she said.
"In business we know it's unwise to spend capital faster
than it accumulates, that it represents a fiscal crisis when you
do; why do we think it's any different in the natural world?"
Ms. Fonda was accompanied by her husband, Ted Turner,
chairman of the board and president of Turner Broadcasting System,
Inc. Turner is also a UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador. Also on the podium
were ICPD Secretary-General Dr. Nafis Sadik and artist Robert
Rauschenberg. Mr. Rauschenberg presented Ms. Fonda with one of 200
signed prints made from a new painting that he created especially
for ICPD; other prints will be sold by the by Earth Pledge
Foundation to help promote the Conference.
Ms. Fonda advocated cutting the U.S. budget for
intelligence- gathering in the post-Cold War world by 3 per cent,
or what she estimated as $1.5 billion, "to address the new and real
threats to our national security: the long-term economic and
environmental problems which have taken on far greater significance
in the last decade."
"To improve peoples' quality of life, reduce conflicts and
reduce environmental destruction, we need sustained economic growth
carried out in a manner that is environmentally sustainable," Ms.
Fonda said, "and we absolutely cannot have such development over
the long term unless and until population growth is brought into
balance with available resources."
Her lecture, together with a reception and luncheon
afterwards, was sponsored by the Eminent Citizens Committee for
Cairo '94. Its chair is U.S. lawyer Theodore W. Kheel, a special
adviser to ICPD Secretary-General Dr. Nafis Sadik.
***
PACIFIC REGION PREPARES FOR CAIRO
Pacific countries and territories provided their perspective
on ICPD issues at a ministerial-level meeting in Port Vila, the
capital of Vanuatu, from 6-10 September. Senior officials and their
ministers from 19 South Pacific countries and territories debated
the full range of issues to be addressed by next year's Cairo
Conference.
The Port Vila Declaration on Population and Sustainable
Development, adopted on 10 September, follows a similar format to
that used by the ICPD Secretariat in preparing the annotated
outline of the draft final document for Cairo. It is the first such
declaration to do so, but not likely to be the last.
In overall population terms, the island developing countries
and territories of the Pacific are far from large--they had a total
of 6.3 million people in mid-1993, or slightly less than 0.1 per
cent of global population. Their population growth rates, however,
are high by world standards; the regional average of 2.3 per cent
per annum covers a range of 9.5 per cent in the Commonwealth of the
Northern Mariana Islands to negative levels in Niue.
Migration to metropolitan countries in the region is an
important factor for some countries in limiting overall population
increases and often hides the persistence of high fertility levels.
A significant number of Pacific countries and territories will
double their population size in the next 20 years, presenting them
with challenges similar to those facing their larger Asian and
African counterparts.
Running throughout the ministerial meeting was a strong
sense of political commitment to tackle the interrelated challenges
of population and development. In his opening statement, Vanuatu's
Prime Minister Maxime Carlot Korman stressed the challenges facing
political leaders:
"When my term as a politician comes to an end, whenever that
may be, population pressure will be greater than it is today.
However, if I carry out my duties properly, by taking the right
decisions, creating the necessary infrastructures, and continuing
to listen to my fellow countrymen, then I shall have done something
towards maintaining or giving hope. But there is one fear, and that
is that our hopeful stand may crumble under the weight of our
problem. Then what will future generations think of us?"
Pacific island missions to the United Nations propose to
submit the Port Vila Declaration to the current General Assembly
session, thereby ensuring it is widely available, including at
PrepCom III and in Cairo. Copies of it can also be obtained from
the ICPD Secretariat.
***
FAMILY PLANNING AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS EXAMINED FROM THE
PERSPECTIVE OF WOMEN
Women's perspectives on family planning, reproductive health
and reproductive rights were the focus of the first in a series of
round-table meetings convened by a number of Governments and
organizations as an informal contribution to the ICPD preparatory
process.
The round table, in Ottawa, Canada, 26-27 August, was
organized by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), with the
support of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).
There were 25 participants from developing and developed countries,
as well as a number of Canadian observers.
CIDA President Huguette Labelle, in her welcoming address,
underscored women's essential role in achieving population and
sustainable development goals. Dr. Nafis Sadik, ICPD Secretary-
General and UNFPA Executive Director, stressed the need to expand
women's access to quality health care, particularly family planning
information and services, and to counter customs and traditions
that perpetuate inequality between women and men.
The agenda was shaped by four background papers: "Women,
Human Rights and Reproductive Rights"; "Contraceptive Research and
Development--A Woman-Centred Approach"; "Family Planning Service
Delivery"; and "Men and Family Planning--Their Roles,
Responsibilities and Concerns".
Discussions centred on: abortion--in particular, the need to
ban its use for sex selection of babies; the need to monitor health
service delivery and to formulate indicators of service quality;
how to respect cultures and traditions without compromising women's
development; reproductive health needs of adolescents; and men's
reproductive behaviour, and their role in helping women to empower
themselves.
Participants adopted a set of recommendations directed at
Governments, the international community and non-governmental
organizations. Reaffirming that reproductive rights are human
rights, they called for implementation of the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women and other
instruments relating to women's sexual and reproductive health.
They appealed for increased efforts to combat maternal
mortality in developing countries; removal of barriers to the
exercise of women's rights; greater spending to improve the
reproductive health of disadvantaged women; increased support of
contraceptive research; universal access to safe, legal abortion;
the establishment of quality standards and provision of training
for family planning services; actions to discourage the practice of
genital mutilation; confidential services for adolescent boys and
girls; and research and service programmes stressing males'
responsibility for their sexual behaviour and its consequences.
Declaring that "in reproductive health programmes, cultural
sensitivity should fully reflect gender sensitivity," the round
table recommended: "In the development of policies and programmes,
all parties are called upon to ensure that culture and tradition do
not justify practices or procedures that stunt the development of
girls and women, jeopardize their health, limit their freedom or
threaten their security."
The meeting also called for efforts to promote the status
and well-being of girls; "eliminate the root causes of son
preference and the practice of sex-selective abortion"; invest in
girls' education, health and nutrition; and discourage early
marriage and child-bearing."
***
MAGHREB COUNTRIES ADDRESS MULTIPLE CHALLENGES
Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia face a
triple challenge of growing populations, increasing needs and
scarce resources, concluded the Conference on Population and
Development in the Maghreb Countries, held in Tunis 7-10 July. The
Conference adopted a Plan of Action which acknowledges the
different demographic situations in each country, but also stresses
issues common to all five.
The Plan is based on principles accepted by earlier regional
conferences in Amman (for the Arab countries) and Dakar/Ngor (for
Africa). The Amman Declaration emphasized the role and status of
women as well as the role of NGOs. The Dakar/Ngor Declaration on
population, family and sustainable development asserted the primary
importance of the family and the responsibility of Governments to
improve the quality of life of each person.
The population of the Maghreb countries doubled between 1960
and 1990, from 29 million to 58 million, and is expected to
increase by another 25 million by the turn of the century. It is
growing at an average rate of 2.7 per cent per annum.
The Plan of Action recognizes the problems created by past
growth in increasing the labour force and the pressures towards
migration. "It is important to reduce high fertility rates, which
are responsible for increasing migration pressure in the next
generation," ICPD Secretary-General Nafis Sadik said in her address
to the Conference. "It is equally important to widen the range of
economic opportunity. Our aim should be to ensure that no one is
forced into migration by poverty, environmental degradation, or
absence of economic choices."
Women's importance to the development process called for
policies to prevent them being crowded out of a growing labour
force, said Dr. Sadik. She called for special attention to
education, training and employment opportunities.
Coinciding with the Conference, the Maghreb Forum of Non-
Governmental Women's Organizations also met in Tunis from 7-10
July. The NGO Forum was an initiative of the National Union of
Tunisian Women, undertaken with support from UNFPA. Twenty-one
organizations active in family welfare and community development
took part.
***
MEETING SUPPORTS FAMILY PLANNING IN CENTRAL ASIA
Formal consultations to help six republics that were
formerly part of the Soviet Union set up and manage family planning
programmes began 11-15 September in Tehran at the Regional
Conference on Family Planning, hosted by Iran's Ministry of Health
and Medical Education and cosponsored by the United Nations
Population Fund (UNFPA).
The Conference was called to identify programme needs in
maternal and child health and family planning (MCH/FP),
particularly as programmes make the transition from reliance on
abortion to promotion of contraception and family planning; and to
foster regional cooperation, linking the six new republics
(Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Tadjikistan, Turkmenistan and
Uzbekistan) to Asian countries with more mature family planning
programmes.
Participants were briefed on a variety of available
contraceptive methods, on family planning programme management, and
on collaborative structures already in place. New avenues for
cooperation were established, and the Government of Iran agreed to
set up a regional centre to train health officials from the six
countries in MCH/FP service delivery and other population-related
fields. UNFPA pledged to supply contraceptives to meet the six
countries' emergency needs in 1993/94, and to organize training of
family planning service providers.
In an opening speech, Dr. Nafis Sadik, UNFPA Executive
Director and Secretary-General of ICPD, observed: "There are
several Islamic traditions indicating that regulating fertility is
part of the exercise of responsible parenthood. Writings by jurists
and scholarly research confirm that the practice of contraception
is acceptable, as long as it is free of coercion, and falls within
the framework of religious and moral teachings."
Countries in the Asia region "accept that rapid population
growth, unplanned migration and urbanization, and increasing
degradation of the environment threaten the drive for sustainable
development," Dr. Sadik told participants. "They accept the need
for strong and effective population policies, with the well-being
of the individual and the family as their primary goal."
Asian countries taking part in the Conference included
Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Pakistan, Sri
Lanka, Thailand and Turkey. Representatives from Afghanistan also
attended. Other participants included the United Nations Children's
Fund, the United Nations Development Programme, the World Health
Organization, the International Planned Parenthood Federation and
Family Health International.
***
NEWS FROM THE NGOS
The Centre for Development and Population Activities
(CEDPA), a Washington-based, woman-focused NGO, and its Southern
partners have mobilized their extensive network of women's NGOs for
ICPD. The 900-organization CEDPA network is committed to increasing
women's leadership in shaping population policies that empower
women and promote gender equity.
In September, network members who attended the second
session of the ICPD Preparatory Committee (PrepCom II) organized
ICPD Issues Meetings in 10 countries to bring more women's
organizations into the Conference process. More than 200 NGO
representatives participated in the meetings in Bangladesh, Ghana,
Guatemala, India, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru and
Tanzania. Their recommendations on key issues will be compiled by
CEDPA and reported to the ICPD Secretariat.
Network leaders are also participating on national
committees and working with official delegations to ensure that
community perspectives on family planning, reproductive health
care, the needs of the girl child, and gender equity are fully
represented at the Conference.
Thirty-one women leaders from 17 countries in Africa, Asia
and Latin America represented CEDPA at PrepCom II in May. The
delegation was the largest group of Southern NGOs at the meeting,
and played a key role in advocating for the priorities of women. A
two-day pre-meeting advocacy training workshop gave delegates the
opportunity to exchange information and form regional groups, which
became the core for women's NGO regional activities. Throughout the
PrepCom, the delegates met daily to discuss issues with leading
population experts, draft position papers, and formulate follow-up
strategies.
For many of these leaders, the ICPD process is a unique
opportunity to make community-level needs and priorities known to
policy makers at the highest levels and to forge government-NGO
linkages.
Overall, CEDPA network activities are geared to the
implementation of strategies which emerge from ICPD. CEDPA
delegates will hold regional and country-level meetings before and
following ICPD to assure that new approaches developed at the
Conference are the basis for more effective programmes.
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Delegates from family planning NGOs in several Eastern
European states met in Lillehammer, Norway, from 1-6 August to
review preparations for ICPD and make recommendations for PrepCom
III and the Cairo Conference. This was one of seven meetings that
the Population Institute is organizing prior to April 1994. ICPD
Executive Coordinator Jyoti S. Singh was the keynote speaker.
Participants adopted the Lillehammer Declaration, which
called on countries to intensify efforts to "achieve population
stabilization at the level compatible with sustainable
development", by increasing access to quality modern
contraceptives. The Declaration proposed that a roundtable meeting
be held to consider the particular population problems facing the
newly-independent states and Eastern European countries in
transition.
-- -- --
REMINDER TO NGOS: The ICPD Secretariat is awaiting your
comments on the PrepCom II documents.
***
SIGN UP NOW FOR PREPCOM III
Reminder to NGOs not yet registered for PrepCom III: the
deadline for accreditation is 15 January 1994.
***
IUSSP CONFERENCE TAKES UP ICPD ISSUES
Thousands of demographers, social scientists and population
experts gathered in Montreal, Canada, from 24 August to 1
September, for the Twenty-Second General Population Conference of
the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population
(IUSSP). The Conference, held every four years, has been likened to
an international information bazaar allowing professionals to
exchange the latest theories, methodologies, research and data.
At special one-day session (1 September) on "The
Contribution of IUSSP to the 1994 U.N. International Conference on
Population and Development", ICPD Executive Coordinator Jyoti S.
Singh and Deputy Secretary-General Joe Chamie described the
preparations for Cairo. IUSSP members were invited to contribute to
the ICPD preparatory process, particularly by making available the
latest information and research findings on population-development
links.
The special session also considered the reports and
recommen- dations of the six expert group meetings held as
scientific preparatory activities for Cairo. The resulting
discussion will soon be made available as a conference report
(IUSSP permanent secretariat, Rue des Augustins, 34 - 4000 Li
Belgium; Fax: 041/223847).
IUSSP decided at the Montreal meeting to organize a special
forum in Cairo in 1994, as part of the NGO activities that will be
held concurrently with the official Conference. This forum should
enable scientists and experts to make delegates aware of up-to-date
research relevant for policy formulation.
***
CALENDAR OF UPCOMING EVENTS
1993
21 September-mid-December United Nations Headquarters, New York
48th session of the United Nations General Assembly. Consideration
of agenda item "International Conference on Population and
Development".
9-13 November Denpasar, Indonesia
Ministerial Meeting on Population of the Non-Aligned Countries.
17-19 November Bangkok, Thailand
Round Table on Population and Development Strategies.
21-23 November Kathmandu, Nepal
South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation Ministerial
Conference on Family Health.
24-26 November Geneva, Switzerland
Round Table on Population, Environment and Sustainable Development
in the Post-UNCED Period.
2-3 December Vienna, Austria
Round Table on Population and Communication.
1994
26-28 January Tokyo, Japan
Meeting of Eminent Persons in Population and Development.
4-22 April United Nations Headquarters, New York
Third session of the Preparatory Committee for the International
Conference on Population and Development, 1994.
July United Nations Headquarters, New York
Substantive session of the United Nations Economic and Social
Council.
3-4 September Cairo, Egypt
Pre-Conference consultations.
5-13 September Cairo, Egypt
International Conference on Population and Development, 1994.
***
"ICPD 94" is the newsletter of the International Conference on
Population and Development. For further information please contact:
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