World Population Conference

The world population conferences (Engl. International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) ) are a series of UN veranstalteter summit on issues of world population . The World Population Conference in Cairo in 1994 received great international attention. There, around 20,000 delegates, including the then US President Bill Clinton , other representatives from various governments, members of UN agencies and non-governmental organizations, discussed a variety of topics, such as immigration, infant mortality, family planning, and strengthening Women and the protection of women from unsafe abortion. Representatives of the 179 attending governments adopted an action program in Cairo that puts reproductive health and reproductive rights at the center of population policy . The program envisaged that by 2014 everyone should have access to sex education , contraception and family planning , protection against HIV and AIDS and health care for everything related to pregnancy and childbirth .

With the High-Level Task Force for ICPD, an independent, international body was established in October 2012 that works to integrate the goals of the Cairo World Population Conference into the post-2015 agenda .

There was no conference in 2004 - but there was a parliamentary assembly on the subject in Strasbourg . In 2014, international deliberations on population issues were integrated into the General Assembly of the United Nations .

Controversial run-up

In the run-up to the World Population Conference in 1994, a symposium was held in Bangladesh in December 1993 by critical feminists who, in a press release, criticized the opinion that population growth is being propagated as the main cause of rising poverty and environmental degradation, as a myth, and that specifically targeting women within population control programs the coming World Population Conference in 1994 will intensify this topic.

Venues and dates

August 31–10. September 1954 in Rome ( Italy )
August 30–10. September 1965 in Belgrade ( Socialist Republic of Serbia )
19.-30. August 1974 in Bucharest ( Romania )
6-14 August 1984 in Mexico City ( Mexico )
5th - 13th September 1994 in Cairo ( Egypt )
12-14 November 2019 in Nairobi ( Kenya )

Web links

World Population Report 2019 German short version
Information about the 1994 conference
Information on the website of the United Nations Population Fund
Page of the High-Level Task Force for ICPD

Individual evidence

^ International Conference on Population and Development - ICPD - Program of Action
↑ Information sheet "Sexual and reproductive health and rights", World Population Foundation (PDF file)
^ "Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights for All", World Population Foundation, May 16, 2013
↑ Renate Klein (2008): From Test-Tube Women to Bodies without Women. Shorted Reprint (2015) in: Mutterschaft im Patriarchat (PDF), p. 161: "The aim of the meeting was to discuss and formulate a feminist position regarding the myth spread all over the world that population growth is the main cause of ongoing and increasing poverty and environmental destruction. This propaganda not only puts the blame on poor people, especially on women, but also makes them the main target for population control policies. The participants expect that this propaganda will be intensified and false representation of reality will be greatly aggravated before and during the upcoming INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT (ICPD) '94 in Cairo, in September, 1994. "

[1] International Conference on Population and Development - ICPD - Program of Action

[2] Information sheet "Sexual and reproductive health and rights", World Population Foundation (PDF file)

[3] "Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights for All", World Population Foundation, May 16, 2013

[4] Renate Klein (2008): From Test-Tube Women to Bodies without Women. Shorted Reprint (2015) in: Mutterschaft im Patriarchat (PDF), p. 161: "The aim of the meeting was to discuss and formulate a feminist position regarding the myth spread all over the world that population growth is the main cause of ongoing and increasing poverty and environmental destruction. This propaganda not only puts the blame on poor people, especially on women, but also makes them the main target for population control policies. The participants expect that this propaganda will be intensified and false representation of reality will be greatly aggravated before and during the upcoming INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT (ICPD) '94 in Cairo, in September, 1994. "