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  • Title: ICPD harnesses worldwide consensus on importance of population issues.
    Author: Cohen SA.
    Journal: Wash Memo Alan Guttmacher Inst; 1994 Oct 14; ():1-2. PubMed ID: 12287914.
    Abstract:
    The UN International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo through September 5-13, 1994, will be remembered for having achieved the global consensus among 180 countries that population is a serious issue which merits attention at the highest levels of government, that population should be considered in the broader context of development, and that improving the status of women is integral not only to addressing issues of population growth but also to sustaining global development efforts. World governments and international organizations agreed to triple levels of current world spending upon population programs to $17 billion by the year 2000 for activities in the developing world and the former Soviet Union, with two-thirds of the funds coming from the recipient countries themselves and the rest from external sources. International agreement was even reached to view family planning as a component of more comprehensive reproductive health care and that the notion of sexual health is a critical aspect of reproductive health. Finally, thanks to Vatican stonewalling, this ICPD represents the first time that the reality of abortion was discussed at length and in depth at any international governmental meeting; the Vatican insisted that debate on abortion continue over three days and nights.
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