Asia-Pacific High-level Forum on International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) at 15: Accelerating Progress towards the ICPD and Millennium Development Goals
(16 -17 September 2009, Bangkok, Thailand)
As 2009 marks the 15th anniversary since the adoption of the landmark Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), adopted at Cairo in September 1994, ESCAP and UNFPA are organizing the "Asia-Pacific High-level Forum on ICPD at 15: Accelerating Progress towards the ICPD and Millennium Development Goals" in Bangkok, United Nations Conference Centre on Wednesday 16 and Thursday 17 September 2009.
The Forum is intended to assist countries in the region identify major impediments to the achievements of the ICPD goals and agree on ways to accelerate progress -- the pursuit of the 20-year ICPD Programme of Action being considered as central to efforts to eradicate poverty and achieve sustainable and inclusive social and economic development.
The comprehensive and farsighted ICPD document places individual human beings at the very heart of the development process.
The High-level Forum is expected to bring together about 130 participants, including ministers, senior officials and civil society representatives from nearly 30 countries and areas in Asia and the Pacific. Key topics to be discussed at the Forum include ‘Ensuring Universal Access to Reproductive Health Services’; Creating an Enabling Environment for Gender Equality; and Population Ageing: Implications for Development; and International Migration and Development'.
Meeting website can be accessed at:
http://www.unescap.org/esid/psis/meetings/pop_forum_2009/index.asp