5th Asia and the Pacific Conference on Reproductive and Sexual Health: Working for Universal Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights:Building on the ICPD PoA and the MDGs, Beijing, China, October 2009

http://www.5apcrshr.org/en/index.aspx

YOUTH DECLARATION AT THE 5TH APCRSHR

http://www.5apcrshr.org/en/detail.aspx?articleid=091010201653218444

Background

Building on the commitments in the Programme of Action of the 1994 Cairo International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), the 1999 Key Actions for the ICPD and the Millennium Declaration, the international community is striving to achieve Millennium Development Goal 5 with its two targets:

• reduce the maternal death ratio by three quarters between 1990-2015, and
• achieve universal access to reproductive health by 2015.

The maternal health goal has made the least progress among all of the MDGs. Complications of pregnancy and childbirth remain the leading killer of women in the developing world; and access to reproductive health information and services remains an illusion for many, especially women and young people

http://www.unfpa.org/public/News/events/pid/2396

Five fact sheets on maternal health and UNFPA prepeard for the meeting:
When pregnancy kills, Contraceptives safe lives, Delivering hope and saving lives, Providing emergency obstetric care, MD5 Improve Maternal Health – http://www.unfpa.org/safemotherhood/mediakit/

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 27-28 October 2009

On 27-28 October 2009, over 400 delegates, including parliamentarians and ministers from around 115 countries, met in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for the fourth International Parliamentarians’ Conference on the Implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action (IPCI/ICPD)

Addis Ababa Statement of Commitment

• http://www.unfpa.org/webdav/site/global/shared/parliamentarians/docs/2009/ipci_outline_09_en.doc
• http://www.unfpa.org/public/parliamentarians/ipci2009

Commission on Population and Development (CPD), New York City, March-April 2009
Forty-second session (30 March - 3 April 2009)

Theme

The contribution of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development to the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals

http://www.un.org/esa/population/cpd/cpd2009/comm2009.htm