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Population and Development: Ensuring Rights and Choices

REPORT HIGHLIGHTS

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Text from the Highlights from the ICPD30 conference discussions report
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Highlights from the ICPD30 conference discussions

Highlights from the Regional Conference on ICPD 2023, Population and Development: Ensuring Rights and Choices, organized by UNECE and UNFPA in Geneva on 19-20 October 2023.

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UN review of population trends in Europe, Central Asia and North America stresses that rights and choices must underpin policy responses to societal shifts

With the wider European region facing the impacts of several overlapping crises, including the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic and the ripple effects of the war in Ukraine and other conflicts in…

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“Once the door opens slightly, the rest is easy”

“I was just like a sheep being sent to slaughter,” said Nuray, from Nevşehir in central Türkiye. “You have to go whether you want to or not.” Nuray was married off by her parents to a much older man…

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Youth-friendly services scaling up in Kazakhstan, offering critical sexual and reproductive health care

"It was my first time with my boyfriend. We didn’t use a condom,” 17-year-old Amina* told UNFPA at one of the youth-friendly health centres in Almaty, Kazakhstan’s biggest city. Comprehensive…

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Governments to convene for ICPD30 review of population and development dynamics in Europe, Central Asia and North America

In the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) region, comprising 56 member States in Europe, North America and Central Asia, the review process will culminate in a Regional Conference on ICPD30,…

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