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", No. 13
March 1994
Newsletter of the International Conference on Population and
Development
Cairo, Egypt, 5-13 September 1994
IN THIS ISSUE
1. Preparatory Committee's Final Session Set to Negotiate
Programme of Action
2. News in Brief
3. Experts Debate Prospects For World Food Supply
4. Provisional Agenda for PrepCom III
5. Women, Population and Development: Statement by Dr. Nafis Sadik
for International Women's Day, 1994
6. Anti-Discrimination Committee Takes Up ICPD Issues
7. News from the NGOs
9. NGO Planning Committee Organizes PrepCom Activities
10. Youth Consultation to Take Up ICPD Themes
11. Calendar of Upcoming Events
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PREPARATORY COMMITTEE'S FINAL SESSION
SET TO NEGOTIATE PROGRAMME OF ACTION
Groundwork for the third and final session of the ICPD Preparatory
Committee (PrepCom III) is nearly complete, as Governments and non-
governmental organizations continue to study and engage in informal
exchanges of views on the draft Programme of Action of the
Conference in preparation for PrepCom negotiations.
The agenda for PrepCom III (4-22 April) is in place, and at
press time a series of three informal, intergovernmental
consultations on the draft Programme had begun.
In the first of these, at UN Headquarters on 22 February, ICPD
Secretary-General Dr. Nafis Sadik provided an overview of the
document; about 20 delegations then commented generally on various
aspects of the draft. The second informal consultation on 10 March
provided information and details on the goals and resource
requirements proposed in the draft Programme.
The 24 March consultation was to focus on principles and on
follow-up to the Conference, including follow-up by the
organizations and bodies of the United Nations system.
WORKING GROUPS TO BE FORMED
Negotiation of the Programme of Action of the Conference will be
the principal focus of PrepCom III. After two or three days of
plenary sessions, it is expected that two Working Groups will be
formed to address specific sections of the document. They will seek
to reach consensus on the wording of each and every part of the
proposed Programme, leaving as little as possible to require
further negotiation at the Conference.
After initial organizational matters, the PrepCom will
consider the ICPD Secretary-General's list of NGOs proposed for
accreditation to the Conference. As Dr. Sadik reported at the first
informal consultation, the Secretariat has received some 300
applications for accreditation from NGOs, in addition to the over
400 that were represented at PrepCom II. A wide variety of NGO
activities will run concurrently with the three-week session (see
page 7).
Next will be a review of Conference preparations. The
Secretary-General has prepared two progress reports. One covers
organizational matters, five ad hoc round tables on ICPD-related
topics, subregional consultations, interagency coordination,
participation of intergovernmental organizations and NGOs,
information activities, financial requirements, funding status,
national preparatory work, and other activities. The second
contains the recommendations of the five regional and five
subregional population conferences held in the past 18 months.
The PrepCom will then receive a report summarizing 20 years of
population programmes and activities by Governments, NGOs and the
international community. This first draft of the "Fourth Review and
Appraisal of the World Population Plan of Action", mandated by the
1974 World Population Conference, will not be negotiated, but
Governments' comments and reactions to it at PrepCom will be taken
into account in revising the report for presentation at the
Conference in September.
The ICPD Secretariat has analysed the first 109 national
reports that have been submitted describing countries' population
situations and related policies and programmes. This analysis forms
the basis of another report to the PrepCom.
In addition, the Preparatory Committee at this session will
determine the provisional agenda of the Conference, and adopt a
report on its activities.
The final Programme of Action will be the most important
outcome of ICPD. The three informal consultations on the draft
Programme were intended to facilitate preparations and otherwise
help set the stage for the crucial negotiations of the draft final
document at PrepCom III. (The draft was released in unofficial form
in February, and officially in all UN languages in March.)
As Dr. Sadik reported at the 22 February informal
consultation, numerous submissions from delegations, NGOs and other
concerned parties were taken into account in preparing the draft
Programme, as were the recommendations of the five regional and
five subregional conferences, the six expert group meetings, the
five round tables and several NGO meetings.
In her overview of the draft document, she discussed its 20-
year objectives, and referred to the progress made over the past 20
years in regard to infant and child mortality, life expectancy,
school enrolment, contraceptive use and poverty alleviation. She
also noted, however, that infant and child mortality rates remained
far too high in many countries, and that maternal mortality rates
in many of them have not come down at all. Neither primary
education, particularly for girls, nor access to family planning
and reproductive health services are yet close to being universal.
The largest number of comments on the draft received by the
Secretariat, particularly from women's groups, she said, were in
regard to gender equity, the empowerment of women, and the changing
roles of women and men.
Goals in regard to stabilizing population growth and fostering
sustainable development can be achieved, Dr. Sadik stated, "only if
we cater to individual needs and rights". There had been a lot of
input into formulation of the draft's broad definition of
reproductive health, she added. The goal of universal access to
family planning and related health services is defined in terms of
meeting unmet needs, she observed.
RESOURCE ESTIMATES
Dr. Sadik also cited the estimates of national resource
requirements given in the draft for four packages of population and
family planning activities in the developing countries and
countries in economic transition. The total annual costs for the
four packages (comprising: family planning; reproductive health
care; prevention of sexually transmitted diseases; and data
collection, analysis and dissemination) are projected to be (in
1993 U.S. dollars) $13.2 billion in 2000, $14.4 billion in 2005,
$16.1 billion in 2010, and $17.0 billion in 2015.
The envisioned international financial assistance portion of
these activities, she noted, is projected to be $4.4 billion in
2000, $4.8 billion in 2005, $5.3 billion in 2010, and $5.7 billion
in 2015. The document's section on international cooperation
stresses partnership with NGOs and private sector.
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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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EXPERTS DEBATE PROSPECTS FOR WORLD FOOD SUPPLY
Growth in the world's food supply will keep pace with population
growth for some time to come, according to experts who met in
Washington last month. Nevertheless, they warned, in some regions
problems will persist in getting food to those who need it most.
>From 14 to 16 February, some 30 experts in the field of
population and food from all over the world gathered at the
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Washington,
D.C., for the Round Table on Population and Food in the Early 21st
Century: Meeting Future Food Needs of an Increasing World
Population. The meeting was organized by the Rockefeller Foundation
and IFPRI, in cooperation with the United Nations Population Fund
(UNFPA), as part of the ICPD preparatory process.
The round table was convened to allow experts to discuss the
current and future global food situation, as well as the regional
outlooks, in light of current and projected population growth
rates, new agro-technologies, and environmental factors.
In an opening address, Dr. Nafis Sadik, UNFPA Executive
Director and Secretary-General of ICPD, noted that family income,
family size and social status were key determinants of food self-
sufficiency. "In the community, women and girls are much more
likely to be poor, and in the family they are far more likely to be
undernourished than men or boys," she pointed out. "There is
nothing inevitable about food shortages, particularly food
shortages within the same family," she stated. "They can be
eliminated; and for the sake of the future they must be
eliminated."
Some 20 papers were presented, on topics ranging from
technological advances to the influence of global warming on food
production. The main discussion centred around three global and
regional food supply/demand projection studies up to the year 2010,
prepared by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
(FAO), the World Bank and IFPRI. Despite differences in methodology
and food products covered, the studies came to similar conclusions,
namely that growth in world food supply is likely to keep pace with
growth in food demand. This is so because the rates of population
growth will continue to slow down and grain yields will continue to
grow, albeit more slowly than in recent years.
According to the experts, there is and will be enough food to
feed the world's population, but all three studies acknowledge that
these global projections, as the IFPRI study put it, "conceal
emerging problems at regional and country level, which show that
there will continue to be problems in getting food to those people
who need it the most". The experts warned that there will be
significant regional problems in food supply in the near future,
particularly in sub-Saharan Africa and to a lesser extent in South
Asia.
The round table also focused on selected issues affecting
future food supplies, such as the availability of land and water,
the contributions of both existing and new technologies, and the
impact of climate change. No major breakthroughs in biotechnology
(a new "green revolution") are to be expected in the short or
medium term, the experts predicted. But this need not be a problem,
they added, if the use of the best existing agricultural
technologies can be further expanded throughout the developing
world.
Lester Brown of the Worldwatch Institute, however, raised
serious doubts about the possibility of increasing agricultural
output given the ongoing loss of agricultural land and problems
affecting water supply in many parts of the world.
The experts disagreed on whether the recently concluded round
of talks on the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) would
have a significant impact on world food production. There was also
disagreement over the likely effects of predicted global climate
change. But all were concerned about the decreasing funding of
agricultural research and the insufficiency of investments in the
agricultural sector by donors and Governments.
Based on the outcomes of the round table, IFPRI will publish
a set of recommendations and a statement on population and food to
be presented at PrepCom III.
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PROVISIONAL AGENDA FOR PREPCOM III
The provisional agenda for the ICPD Preparatory Committee's third
session (4-22 April 1994) is as follows:
1. Adoption of the agenda and other organizational matters.
2. Accreditation of non-governmental organizations to the
Conference and its preparatory process.
3. Preparations for the Conference.
4. Review and appraisal of progress made towards implementation
of the World Population Plan of Action.
5. National reports of countries on their population situation,
policies and programmes.
6. Draft final document of the Conference.
7. Provisional agenda and proposed organization of work of the
Conference.
8. Adoption of the report of the Preparatory Committee.
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ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE TAKES UP ICPD ISSUES
The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women
(CEDAW) has made a number of recommendations as a contribution to
ICPD preparations. At CEDAW's Thirteenth Session, from 17 January
to 4 February, a working group was set up to provide follow-up to
the 1993 World Conference on Human Rights and input to ICPD.
The working group's report, adopted by the Committee, asserted
that population and development policies need to address the
"vicious circle of women's illiteracy, poverty, fertility rates and
discrimination in formal and informal employment."
"As women are generally the poorest of the poor," it stated,
"eliminating social, cultural, economic and political
discrimination against women is a prerequisite for ... achieving
sound population policies."
Noting the increase in female-headed households, the report
called for special measures to address their particular needs. It
emphasized that a main objective of ICPD is to eliminate
discrimination against girls, eliminate the causes of
son-preference, strengthen girls' self-esteem and improve their
status, "especially with regard to health, nutrition and
education".
The report recommended that "in the formulation of sustainable
development policies, ... the needs and tasks of women, especially
in terms of their impact on natural resources, should be recognized
and that women should participate in governmental and
non-governmental decision-making processes on these issues."
CEDAW is a 23-member expert committee that reports annually on
countries' progress in implementing the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. The
Convention, adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1979, is a
statement of women's human rights and how to achieve them, as well
as a framework for women's participation in the development
process.
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WOMEN, POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT
Dr. Nafis Sadik, Secretary-General of ICPD and Executive Director
of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) issued the following
statement on the occasion of International Women's Day, 8 March
1994:
UNFPA has always accorded great importance to the observance
of International Women's Day. This year, the occasion has special
significance for the Fund because of the International Conference
on Population and Development (ICPD) which will be held in Cairo on
5-13 September 1994. The international community will strive to
agree on a firm plan of action on population for the next 20 years
in accordance with universally recognized principles of human
rights and national sovereignty. The empowerment of women is a key
conference goal.
Women's reproductive health and rights will be a central
concern at the conference since without reproductive freedom, women
cannot exercise fully their other rights, such as those in
education and employment. Fulfilling women's right to health and
enabling them to exercise their reproductive rights requires
quality health services, which include a wide range of safe and
effective methods of family planning, along with relevant
information, education and counselling.
Over the past three decades, many countries have made
substantial progress in expanding access to reproductive health
care and lowering birth rates, as well as in lowering death rates
and raising education and income levels, including the educational
and economic status of women.
CONTRACEPTIVE USE HAS GROWN
At present, about 55 per cent of couples in developing regions use
some method of family planning. This represents a nearly five-fold
increase since the 1960s. However, the full range of modern family
planning methods still remains unavailable to at least 350 million
couples world-wide.
Survey data suggest that approximately 120 million additional
women world-wide would be currently using a modern family planning
method if more accurate information and affordable services were
easily available, and if husbands, extended families and the
community were more supportive.
One indication of the large unmet demand for more and better
family planning services is the estimated 40 million abortions
which occur every year, many of them unsafe. Maternal mortality and
morbidity rates continue to be unacceptably high in developing
countries. Unsafe abortion, responsible for a significant
proportion of the approximately 500,000 maternal deaths every year,
is a critical health problem requiring urgent response. Health
programmes should respond to women's needs at all stages of life,
combat sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV/AIDS, and promote
safe motherhood.
Family planning, of course, is not just a matter of providing
contraceptives. Experience shows that family planning and
population programmes work best in an environment where efforts
have been made to improve the overall status of women. For example,
education for women is one of the key factors in reducing fertility
and infant mortality and improving family well-being. Despite
progress made in the past two decades in primary education for
girls, women continue to be at a serious disadvantage in higher
education and in the quality of education they receive. This leads
to their being handicapped in employment and poorly represented at
all decision policy making levels in Governments and the private
sector.
The Fourth World Conference on Women (WCW) will be held in
1995 at a time when the connection between the status of women and
the success of development programmes has become clear. ICPD will
provide a valuable input into the preparations for WCW by ensuring
that the reproductive role, health and rights of women continue to
be recognized as key elements in any strategy designed for the
advancement of women. International Women's Day this year,
therefore, gives us an excellent opportunity to support the goals
of both conferences by reaffirming our commitment to improving the
status and participation of women in all spheres of development.
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NEWS FROM THE NGOS
JAPAN'S NETWORK FOR WOMEN AND HEALTH, CAIRO '94
To increase the involvement of Japanese women in ICPD and its
preparatory process, a group of scholars, politicians, doctors,
journalists, and members of women's and environmental NGOs have
formed Japan's Network for Women and Health, Cairo '94. Organizers
believe it is essential that women play a central role in
policy-making in regard to population issues such as fertility,
ageing, women's labour, migrant workers, welfare and sexuality.
In the months before the Conference, the group plans to
conduct a number of activities to promote better public
understanding of reproductive health issues. Organizers hope to
ensure that the Government's national report and its delegation to
the Conference reflect Japanese women's perspectives.
The network has organized several symposia with panels and
guest speakers; a platform meeting is scheduled in March. The group
plans to send representatives to PrepCom III.
U.K. NGOS TAKE PART IN WORKSHOPS ON POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT
To facilitate consultations with NGOs as part of the ICPD
preparatory process, the British Government last year set up the
NGO Forum ICPD Cairo 1994, under the aegis of the Overseas
Development Administration. Three workshops were organized: women
and population; primary health care, family planning and women's
reproductive rights; and population in the context of development.
Some 46 NGOs took part in the third session, held 11 November
1993. Working groups focused on population and development
interactions and relationships; structural adjustment programmes
and population; development, population and environment; and women
and development.
While the views expressed in these groups were diverse, two
concerns were widely shared. First, discussions of population
should move away from an exclusive emphasis on fertility; the focus
should also encompass the causes and consequences of population
growth, population and development relationships, and the causes
and alleviation of poverty. Second, structural adjustment
programmes should not preclude a development focus that gives
priority to the alleviation of poverty and inequality, empowers the
poor and guarantees the conditions through which women can exercise
their reproductive rights.
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S HEALTH CONFERENCE HELD IN RIO
The Reproductive Health and Justice: International Women's Health
Conference for Cairo '94 was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from
24-28 January. Following a number of regional and national women's
meetings on population and reproductive health issues in 1993, the
Conference was designed to produce specific strategy
recommendations for ICPD. Some 227 women from 79 countries took
part.
The conference adopted a Rio Statement, which voiced
opposition to population policies that do not address women's
rights to a secure livelihood and freedom from poverty and
oppression, or which do not respect women's rights to free,
informed choice and adequate health care. The statement declared
that quality reproductive health services should be available,
accessible and affordable; and abortion safe and legal. It also
urged Governments to redirect military expenditures to social
programmes, and recommended that the United Nations establish a
commission on women's reproductive rights.
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NGO PLANNING COMMITTEE ORGANIZES PREPCOM ACTIVITIES
The NGO Planning Committee for the ICPD has sent copies of the
draft Programme of Action of the Conference to all NGOs on its
mailing list to help them prepare for PrepCom III.
Registration for NGOs at the PrepCom will begin 4 April at 8
am, at the Church Center (777 United Nations Plaza, across the
street from the UN Secretariat building). Accredited NGOs can pick
up their UN passes at the ICPD NGO registration desk which will be
set up inside the Secretariat building.
An orientation session will be held at 5 pm at the Church
Center. This will prepare NGO participants for discussions of the
draft document and provide orientation for their visit to New York.
A programme of NGO presentations planned during PrepCom will be
available.
The daily schedule for NGO activities at PrepCom is as
follows: 8-10 am, issue caucuses; 10 am to 1 pm, NGO presentations
and workshops (at the Church Center or the UN Secretariat
building); 1-2 pm, NGO panel sessions; 2-3 pm, briefing sessions
(with delegates, NGO representatives, ICPD Secretariat staff and
others); 3-5 pm, NGO workshops, presentations or videos at the
Church Center; 5-7 pm, regional caucuses at the Church Center.
The NGO Planning Committee staff and a number of volunteers
will be able to assist NGO representatives in finding places to
meet for group discussions, to register participants for the NGO
Forum 94 in Cairo, and to assist in other ways.
A complete meeting of the NGO Planning Committee, with over
270 organizations, will be held on 11 April. (The Committee will
announce the time and place at the start of the PrepCom.)
The Committee has also begun to organize a communications
strategy for the NGO Forum. It wants the input of all NGOs who will
be seeking press coverage of their events or programmes. All NGO
representatives will be welcome to attend a media strategy session
during PrepCom, held to help the Committee staff prepare the
facilities and logistics in Cairo to allow journalists easy access
to NGO representatives.
For more information: NGO Planning Committee for the ICPD, 777
UN Plaza, 8th floor, New York, NY 10017, USA. Tel. (212) 545-7344.
Fax (212) 745-7581.
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YOUTH CONSULTATION TO TAKE UP ICPD THEMES
A Youth Consultation on the themes of ICPD will be held in Cairo
from 31 August to 4 September 1994. Initiated by the Family Life
Education Subcommittee of the Conference of Non-Governmental
Organizations in Consultative Status with the United Nations
Economic and Social Council, the meeting is intended to provide a
platform for young people to express their concerns relating to
population and development.
Organizers include the International Planned Parenthood
Federation, the International Youth and Student Movement for the
United Nations, Red Cross Youth, the World Alliance of Young
Women's Christian Associations, the World Assembly of Youth, the
World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts, the World Council
of Churches, the Society for International Development and the
World Organization of the Scout Movement. All agree that ICPD
provides an opportunity to raise awareness about the role that
youth can and should play in population and development issues.
A steering committee will select 100 participants, from all
regions and representing diverse social and economic backgrounds,
ensuring equal participation by young women and men.
Four categories of issues will be addressed: human rights and
population (protection of young people's rights, elimination of
discrimination and injustice, young people's rights and
responsibilities in relation to their reproductive life, and
protection of vulnerable youth); society's responsibility for human
development and reproductive health (ensuring choices and
responsibilities, especially for young women, sexually transmitted
diseases including AIDS, and substance abuse); sustainable
development and population (North-South economic and social justice
on resource use and consumption, redistribution of resources,
environmental impact and repercussions for future generations,
population growth, demography and youth migration); partnership in
population (North-South solidarity, interdependence among young
people and their organizations, and moving from commitment to
action).
These themes will be introduced in plenary sessions, followed
by working groups. A youth statement will then be drafted to
present at the NGO Forum coinciding with ICPD.
It is expected that the consultation will take place in the
International Scout Centre in Heliopolis/Cairo. Field visits will
allow participants to see NGO achievements in relation to
population and development.
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CALENDAR OF UPCOMING EVENTS
24 March
United Nations Headquarters, New York
Informal intergovernmental consultations on the draft ICPD
Programme of Action, focusing on follow-up and institutional
issues.
28-31 March
United Nations Headquarters, New York
Twenty-seventh session of the Population Commission.
30 March
Washington, D.C.
Population and Economic Growth: Perspectives from the Global
South, a conference at The American University, sponsored by The
Center for the Study of the Global South.
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 intergovernmental consultations.
5-13 September
Cairo, Egypt
International Conference on Population and Development, 1994.
Mid-September-mid-December
United Nations Headquarters, New York
49th session of the United Nations General Assembly.
Consideration of the Report of the International Conference on
Population and Development.
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For printed or electronic copies of the "ICPD 94" newsletter, in
English, French or Spanish, or further information, please
contact:
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New York, N.Y. 10017, USA
Tel: (212) 297-5244/5245
Media contact: (212) 297-5023/5030 or 5279
Fax: (212) 297-5250
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