ASIAN, PACIFIC COUNTRIES ADOPT AGREEMENT ON REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AT UN CONFERENCE

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ASIAN, PACIFIC COUNTRIES ADOPT AGREEMENT ON REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AT UN CONFERENCE
New York, Sep 22 2013 1:00PM
Gender equality and reproductive health are indispensable to
sustainable development, and must be a key part of the post-2015
development agenda, participants said at a United Nations-organized
regional conference in Thailand.

After days of intense discussions, nearly 500 delegates, including
ministers and senior officials from 47 countries, adopted a
comprehensive Asian and Pacific Ministerial Declaration on Population
and Development.

The document was finalized on the last day of the Sixth Asian and
Pacific Population Conference (APPC) in Bangkok, hosted by the UN
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
(ESCAP), in cooperation with the UN Population Fund (UNFPA).

"Addressing one of the most important parts of our unfinished
business, it affirms the importance of non-discrimination, of ending
violence against women and girls, and of universal sexual and
reproductive health, services, and rights," UN Under-Secretary-General
and Executive Secretary of ESCAP, Noeleen Heyzer,
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at the closing of the week-long conference on Friday.

She also noted that the document affirms the importance of national
laws and policies which respect and protect the reproductive rights of
every person, and "enables all people to exercise them without
discrimination on any grounds."

The document will be the region's input to next year's UN General
Assembly review of the 20-year action plan on sexual and reproductive
health rights which was agreed on in 1994 in Cairo at the UN
International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD).

The Declaration reasserts key principles of the ICPD Programme of
Action, stressing States' responsibility to protect human rights for
all without distinction and to address the root causes of poverty.

It also calls for universal and equitable access to sexual and
reproductive health services, to further reduce maternal deaths,
ensure access to family planning and prevent the spread of HIV.

The Declaration emphasizes promotion of gender equality, including
calls to end violence against women and girls and early and forced
marriage.

It also highlights actions essential to further progress, particularly
the rights of young people and their needs, including comprehensive
sexuality education, access to contraception including for the
unmarried, education and employment opportunities.
The Declaration is expected to contribute to discussions as the
international community builds on the eight-poverty targets known as
the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and prepares a post-2015
development agenda.

The summit, and the ministerial document it produced, are "pointing
the way to the future we want: one in which human rights are upheld
for all of us, with the exception of none of us," said UNFPA Deputy
Executive Director Kate Gilmore, who also attended the meeting.
Sep 22 2013 1:00PM
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