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. 15
May 1994
Newsletter of the International Conference on Population and
Development
Cairo, Egypt, 5-13 September 1994
QUANTITATIVE GOALS IN THE DRAFT PROGRAMME OF ACTION
The following is excerpted from the ICPD draft Programme of Action
adopted at PrepCom III. (Passages in brackets have not been agreed
to.)
1.18 The present Programme of Action commits the international
community to quantitative goals in three areas that are mutually
supporting and of critical importance to the achievement of other
important population and development objectives. These areas are:
education, especially for girls; infant, child and maternal
mortality reduction; and the provision of universal access to
family planning and reproductive health services.
INFANT AND CHILD MORTALITY
8.16 ... [Countries should strive to reduce their infant and
under-5 mortality rates by one third, or to 50 and 70 per 1,000
live births, respectively, whichever is less, by the year 2000,
with appropriate adaptation to the particular situation of each
country. ... By 2015 all countries should aim to achieve an infant
mortality rate below 35 per 1,000 live births and an under-5
mortality rate below 45 per 1,000. Countries that achieve these
levels earlier should strive to lower them further.]
MATERNAL MORTALITY
8.21 Countries should strive to effect significant reductions in
maternal mortality by the year 2015; [a reduction in maternal
mortality by one half of the 1990 levels by the year 2000 and a
further one half by 2015. The realization of these goals will have
different implications for countries with different 1990 levels of
maternal mortality. ... ]
EDUCATION
4.18 Beyond the achievement of the goal of universal primary
education in all countries [before the year 2015], all countries
are urged to ensure the widest and earliest possible access by
girls and women to secondary and higher levels of education, as
well as vocational education and technical training, bearing in
mind the need to improve the quality and relevance of that
education.
11.6 ... All countries should further strive to ensure the complete
access to primary school or an equivalent level of education by
both girls and boys as quickly as possible, and in any case before
the year 2015. ...
FAMILY PLANNING
7.14. All countries should, over the next several years, assess
the extent of national unmet need for good-quality family planning
services and its integration in the [sexual and reproductive
health] context ... . All countries should take steps to meet the
family planning needs of their populations as soon as possible and
should, [in all cases by the year 2015], seek to provide universal
access to a full range of safe and reliable family-planning methods
and to related [legally permissible] [reproductive health]
services.
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