IPS: Asian & Arab Parliamentarians to Move Forward on Reproductive Health & Gender Empowerment
“Over the years, the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA) has worked in tandem with legislators and parliamentarians to help implement the historic Programme of Action (PoA) adopted unanimously by over 20,000 U.N. delegates at a landmark International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo back in 1994. … As UNFPA plans to commemorate the 25th anniversary of ICPD at an international conference (ICPD25) in Nairobi in November, the Asian Parliamentarians for Population and Development (APDA) will hold a meeting in Rabat, Morocco 18-20 September to review and assess ICPD25…” (Raheem, 9/16).