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Regional Conference on ICPD

Population and Development: Ensuring Rights and Choices

REPORT HIGHLIGHTS

Programme

Thursday, 19 October 2023

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High-level Plenary session

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10:00–10:20
Item 1. Official Opening of the Conference

Ms. Tatiana Molcean, United Nations Under Secretary-General and Executive Secretary, UNECE 

Ms. Diene Keita, United Nations Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director (Programme), UNFPA

10:20–10:30
Item 2. Election of officers and adoption of the agenda

Nominees:

H.E. Mr. Alexei Buzu, Minister of Labour and Social Protection, Republic of Moldova 

H.E. Ms. Aurora Diaz-Rato Revuelta, Permanent Representative of Spain to United Nations Office and other International Organizations in Geneva

10:30–11:10
Item 3. 30 years after Cairo: The ICPD agenda in a changing world

Speakers:

Mr. Stuart Gietel-Basten, Professor of Social Science, Khalifa University 

Mr. Volker Türk, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

Ms. Inge Maiberg, Athlete Leader from Special Olympics Estonia

11:10–11:30
Item 4. Report on the implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action in the UNECE region

Ms. Florence Bauer, Regional Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, UNFPA 

Ms. Lisa Warth, Chief, Population Unit, UNECE

11:30–12:50
Member States’ statements on national progress towards implementation of ICPD Programme of Action (by subscription)
12:50–13:00
Statements by parliamentarians, civil society and youth on regional progress and challenges towards implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action
13:00–15:00
Lunch break

Side event on Generations and Gender Programme, 14.00 – 14.45, Room 207-209, H-Building

15:00–16:50

Item 5. First thematic session: Population dynamics and sustainable development

Panellists:

H.E. Ms. Dubravka Šuica, European Commission Vice-President for Democracy and Demography 

Ms. Ridhi Kashyap, Professor of Demography and Computational Social Science at the University of Oxford and Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College

H.E. Ms. Bora Muzhaqi, Minister of State for Youth and Children, Albania 

Ms. Isabel Almeida Rodrigues, Secretary of State for Equality and Migration, Portugal 

Mrs. Juana López Pagán, Director General for Policies against Depopulation, Ministry for Environmental Transition and Demographic Challenge, Spain

Ms. Sevim Sayim Madak, Deputy Minister of Family and Social Services, Türkiye

Ms. Tetyana Berezhna, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Economy, Ukraine 

Ms. Monika Queisser, Senior Counsellor to the Director of Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Directorate, Head of Social Policy Division, OECD

16:50–17:40
Discussion: comments by member States, experts, civil society
17:40–17:50
Rapporteur’s summary

 Ms. Fiona McCluney, UN Resident Coordinator for Albania

17:50–18:00
Celebrating innovations and good practices – Population dynamics and sustainable development

Ms. Elke Loichinger, Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB), Germany 

18:00
Closing of the first day
18:00–19:30
Evening Reception

The reception will take place at Bar Serpent, next to the meeting room.

Friday, 20 October 2023

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09:30–11:10

Item 6. Second Thematic Session: Families, sexual and reproductive health over the life course

Panellists:

Mr. Olivier Degomme, International Centre for Reproductive Health Scientific Director, Ghent University 

H.E. Ms. Darija Kisić Tepavčević, Minister of Family Welfare and Demography, Serbia 

Ms. Tamar Gabunia, First Deputy Minister of IDPs from the Occupied Territories, Labour, Health and Social Affairs, Georgia 

Ms. Ana Daneva Markova, Health Advisor to the Prime Minister of North Macedonia

Ms. Sofie Kallehauge Larsen, Denmark’s Youth Delegate on Gender Equality and SRHR

Ms. Patricia Ötvös, Adviser to the Commissioner, Office of the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights

Ms. Pascale Allotey, Director, Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research, WHO and UNDP-UNFPA-UNICEF-WHO-World Bank Special Programme in Human Reproduction

Mr. Neil Datta, Executive Director, European Parliamentary Forum on Sexual and Reproductive Rights  

11:10–12:10
Discussion: comments by member States, experts, civil society
12:10–12:20
Rapporteur’s summary

Ms. Anne Gauthier, Senior researcher, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute and University of Groningen

12:20–12:30
Celebrating innovations and good practices

Ms. Carolina Bugaian, CEO Moldcell

12:30–14:30
Lunch break
14:30–15:30

Item 7. Third thematic session: Inequalities, social inclusion and rights

Panellists:

Ms. Genoveva Tisheva, Vice-Chair of the UN Committee of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and Co-Chair of the Working Group on GBV Against Women  

H.E. Mr. Dan Perciun, Minister of Education, Republic of Moldova

Hon Dilrabo Mansuri, Vice Speaker of the Parliament, Tajikistan 

Ms. Bjørg Sandkjær, State Secretary, Norway 

Ms. Brankica Jankovic, Commissioner for the Protection of Equality, Serbia 

Ms. Donatella Benjamin, Representative to the UN in Geneva for Soroptimist International; Member of the NGO Committee on Ageing, Geneva; Treasurer of the NGO Committee on the Status of Women, Geneva

Ms. Adriana Quiñones, Head, Human Rights and Development, UN Women Geneva Office

15:30–16:20
Discussion: comments by member States, experts, civil society
16:20–16:30
Rapporteur’s summary

Ms. Emilie Filmer-Wilson, Human Rights Adviser, UNFPA 

16:30
Closing of the third thematic session
16:30–17:30

Closing plenary session

16:40–16:55
Item 8. Highlights from the Conference discussions
16:55–17:05
ICPD30 – Draft report of the Conference

Ms. Lisa Warth, Chief, Population Unit, UNECE

17:05–17:15
Item 9. ICPD30 Global review – regional inputs

Mr. Arthur Erken, Director, Policy and Strategy Division, UNFPA

17:15–17:30

Item 10. Closing remarks

Ms. Diene Keita, United Nations Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director (Programme), UNFPA

Ms. Tatiana Molcean, United Nations Under Secretary-General and Executive Secretary Executive Secretary, UNECE

17:30
Closing of the Conference