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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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT
Cairo, Egypt
5-13 September 1994
"ICPD 94" newsletter, Number 18
August 1994
PARLIAMENTARIANS' MEETING TO PRECEDE ICPD
Several international and regional organizations of
parliamentarians concerned with population and development issues
will meet at Cairo's Meridien Hotel 3-4 September to discuss issues
that will be addressed by ICPD and to prepare strategies for
fostering the implementation of the Conference Programme of Action.
The International Conference of Parliamentarians on Population
and Development will be convened by the Asian Forum of
Parliamentarians on Population and Development, the Inter-American
Parliamentary Group on Population and Development, the
International Medical Parliamentarians Organization, the Global
Committee of Parliamentarians on Population and Development, and
Parliamentarians for Global Action.
After an introductory ceremony and keynote address, working
group sessions will be held on: gender equality and empowerment of
women; health and mortality; reproductive rights and family
planning; resource mobilization; and parliamentary actions at
national, regional, interregional and global levels. Participants
will adopt a Cairo Declaration at the close of the session.
Parliamentary groups and individual parliamentarians have been
actively involved in preparations for ICPD. A number of
parliamentarians took part in the three sessions of the ICPD
Preparatory Committee, and many others have served on national
committees formed in preparation for the Conference.
Many of the participants in the parliamentarians' meeting are
expected to remain in Cairo to participate in ICPD, working with
and in many cases as members of national delegations to the
Conference.
It is also anticipated that parliamentarians will play a
crucial role in the follow-up to ICPD and the implementation of the
Programme of Action. In addition to the formulation and revision of
national legislation, parliamentarians can help to mobilize public
support for the aims of the Conference, and to increase resource
allocations to population activities and related social-sector
areas such as education and primary health care.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
ICPD Secretariat, 220 East 42nd Street, New York, NY 10017, USA
Tel: (212) 297-5244 or 5245; Fax: (212) 297-5250
Press inquiries: (212) 297-5023, 297-5030 or 297-5279
E-mail: ryanw@unfpa.org
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