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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"ICPD 94"
March 1994
Number 13
Newsletter of the International Conference on Population and
Development
Cairo, Egypt, 5-13 September 1994
NEWS IN BRIEF
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and the Family Planning and Health
Foundation of Turkey are the winners of the 1994 United Nations
Population Award. Nicolaas H. Biegman, Chairman of the Award
Committee and Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the
United Nations, announced the winners at a UN Headquarters press
conference on 24 February.
The award is presented annually to individuals or institutions
who have made the most outstanding contributions to the awareness
of population questions or their solutions. Ten UN Member States,
elected for three years, serve on the Award Committee. Winners
receive $10,000 and a gold medal. The presentation will be made
later this year.
According to Mr. Biegman, the Family Planning and Health
Foundation of Turkey was selected for its efforts to improve family
planning services in Turkey. The group was founded in 1985 by
industrialists and scientists. It has worked with many governmental
and non-governmental organizations to develop a wide range of
activities including education campaigns, publications, training
programmes and contraceptive distribution services linked to
maternal and child health and nutrition.
President Mubarak was selected, Mr. Biegman said, for his
national and international leadership on population issues,
including his creation of Egypt's National Population Council to
formulate a strategy and carry out effective programmes for
fertility limitation. Under his leadership, Egypt has given
increasing priority and attention to family planning and population
issues in its five-year plans, has recently established a Ministry
for Population and Family Affairs, and has offered to host ICPD.
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To increase public awareness of ICPD, and of population and related
issues, Reuters News is producing four video news releases and
three public service announcements for world-wide distribution
prior to the Conference. Each video news release is four minutes
long, and focuses on a different theme.
The first, released in late February, is on population and the
environment. The others deal with: women, population and economic
opportunities (due to be released in April); migration (May); and
reproductive health, and maternal and child health (July). The 30-
second public service announcements will focus on population and
the environment, the status of women, and reproductive health.
Reuters will send all the productions, along with
supplementary footage, via satellite to its subscribers (more than
1,000 in North America, including all major broadcast networks in
the United States; 40 in Western Europe; 40 in Asia; and 12 in
Africa). Additionally, the European Broadcast Union will send the
productions via satellite to all its subscribers in Western Europe,
and the World Environment News to its 250 broadcasters in five
continents. UNFPA will send copies to all its field offices.
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The ICPD Global Media Project, a television marketing campaign to
raise awareness of issues on the ICPD agenda, is organizing a
series of 12-15 globally broadcast advertising spots to run from
July through September. These will feature interviews with former
U.S. President Jimmy Carter and other world leaders, juxtaposed
with people working at the community level around the world.
The spots will be shown several times daily on CNN
International and other networks, and will be promoted by a public
relations and radio campaign. Sponsors include Global 2000 of The
Carter Center and Georgia Institute of Technology's Center for
Sustainable Technology, both based in Atlanta, Georgia, and the
Cairo-based National Association for the Protection of the
Environment.
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NGONET, a Uruguay-based computer network affiliated with the
Association for Progressive Communications (APC), plans to set up
a computer communications centre for NGOs at PrepCom III and ICPD.
It provided similar services at PrepCom II. Meanwhile, many NGOs
world-wide are participating in an exchange of documentation and
discussion on ICPD in an electronic forum, "icpd.general", on the
APC system.
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For printed or electronic copies of the "ICPD 94" newsletter, in
English, French or Spanish, or further information, please contact:
ICPD Secretariat 220 E. 42nd Street, 22nd floor
New York, N.Y. 10017, USA
Tel: (212) 297-5244/5245
Media contact: (212) 297-5023/5030 or 5279
Fax: (212) 297-5250
E-mail: ryanw@unfpa.org or icpd@igc.apc.org
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