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Reproductive health: US position rejected The Fifth Asian and Pacific Population Conference concluded with a regional consensus against the US government effort to change existing international commitments to reproductive health rights and services. All countries excepting the U.S. government have agreed on a Plan of Action on Population and Poverty that addresses population issues as a key contribution to reducing poverty in the region and meeting the United Nations Millennium Development Goal of halving the number of people living on less than US$1 a day by the year 2015. See report and links from the Asia-Pacific Alliance: Advancing the ICPD Agenda (APA/ICPD), a network of nongovernmental organizations, government agencies, and related groups in the donor countries of the Pacific Rim, whose goal is to strengthen cooperation in support of the population, reproductive health, sustainable development, and other objectives formulated during the International Conference on Population and Development, held in Cairo in 1994. print    send   correct  ADD YOUR COMMENT >>  United Nations  Articles and reports  Information resources    United Nations Fifth Asian and Pacific Population Conference adopts Plan of Action on Population and Poverty Source: UN Official report on the Conference Statement of the Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund Source: Planet Wire "To ensure greater progress and to meet the Millennium Development Goals, all efforts must directly target the poor, the very people we all know in our hearts are too frequently left behind".    Articles and reports Asian defeat of U.S. policy holds lessons Source: IPS According to this article, Washington did not secure support even from the region's Muslim countries, which time and again have seen eye to eye with the United States on reproductive health policies. Region stands up to U.S. effort to undercut Cairo pledges Source: IPS As it is stated here, the text of the action plan that came out of the conference revealed the wide gulf between the region's governments and Washington: more than 40 countries except for the United States had agreed to endorse the plan. The far fight, reproductive rights and U.S. international assistance: the untold story behind the headlines Source: Planet Wire This report shows how family planning services became the conduit for a political agenda that had less to do with women’s needs than it did with the achievement of demographic goals.    Information resources Background on the Fifth Asian and Pacific Population Conference Source: Planet Wire

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