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EP - Population control and development: 10 years after the UN Conference in Cairo

Summary: March 8, 2004: Report on population and development: 10 years after the UN Conference in Cairo

Karin JUNKER (PES, D)
Report on population and development: 10 years after the UN Conference in Cairo
(2003/2133(INI))
Doc.: A5-0055/2004

Procedure : Own-initiative
Debate : 08.03.2004


Karin JUNKER (PES, D) for the Development Committee will be tabling a draft own-initiative resolution on population and development. The committee expects the publication of a comprehensive overview of progress in the implementation of the Cairo Programme of Action to mark the tenth anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development in 2004. MEPs in the committee also call on the European Union to publish a round-up of the initiatives launched so far, and call on the Member States, in accordance with their undertakings in the area of public development aid (PDA), to make more funding available for the protection of reproductive health.

The committee also stresses that abortion must not be regarded as a family planning method, but calls for legal and medically safe interventions to be possible for women who have no other way out of their difficulties. MEPs call on the European Union and its Member States, to that end, to co-ordinate activities among the donor countries more efficiently and to provide more funds for programmes in the field of sexual and reproductive health and rights in order to fulfil the international commitments made in Cairo in 1994. MEPs in the committee also want the EU and the international community as a whole, in the absence of a cure for AIDS, to increase resources for, and commitment to, international research and development of an AIDS vaccine and comprehensive clinical trials, particularly in developing countries.

MEPs in the committee welcome the fact that fifteen African States have made genital mutilation of girls and women illegal. The committee calls on the African States where genital mutilation is still practised to also take legislative steps to prohibit it.

  • Ref: EP04-014EN
  • EU source: European Parliament
  • UN forum: 
  • Date: 8/3/2004


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