Meetings Coverage and Press Releases

Population

POP/1030

Need to Address Gaps in Sexual, Reproductive Health Recurrent Theme as Population Commission Adopts Resolution by Consensus

After all-night negotiations, the Commission on Population and Development capped its forty-seventh session in the early hours of 12 April with the adoption of a consensus resolution, urging Governments to address gaps in implementing the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) Programme of Action, notably in the areas of human rights, gender equality and equitable access to health care, including for sexual and reproductive health.

POP/1026

Small Island States Point to Gains in Women’s Health, Combating Domestic Violence as Population Commission Focuses on Protecting Families

Citing steps to stamp out violence in the home, maternal mortality and sexually transmitted diseases, representatives of small island developing States shed light on their respective national schemes to implement the 1994 landmark population and development accord, as the Commission on Population and Development continued its session today.

POP/1025

Discrimination against Females Single Biggest Obstacle to Public Health, Special Envoy Says as Commission on Population Opens Session

While the last 20 years had seen remarkable gains in achieving universal education, reducing maternal mortality, and increasing access to sexual and reproductive health services, growing inequity was preventing the most marginalized from realizing their human rights, United Nations experts said today, as the Commission on Population and Development launched its forty-seventh session.

POP/1016

Science, Technology, Innovation Support Progress towards International Development Goals, Commission on Population and Development Told

Advances in science and technology not only improved living conditions in both developed and developing countries, but enhanced the lives of migrants and enabled progress towards internationally agreed development goals, a senior official of the Economic and Social Council told Population and Development Commission members in today’s session.
POP/1015

Migrants’ Complex Global Movement Affects National Economies, Communities, Families, Say Speakers in Commission on Population and Development Debate

The increasingly complex movement of international migrants — who now flowed circuitously between countries, bringing with them skills, ideas and capital — had a profound impact on families and communities around the world, declared speakers today as the Commission on Population and Development continued its forty-sixth session.