Lecture Outline - February 20
The World Population Conferences
I. What type of an international issue is population?
an environmental issue?
an economic issue
a social issue
a human rights issue
a women's issue
II. The World Population Conferences
World Population Conference (Bucharest, 1974)
International Conference on Population (Mexico City, 1984)
The Mexico City Rule
International Conference for Population and Development (Cairo, 1994)
Prominent issues at the Cairo Conference
-gender equity, empowerment of women
-family, its rules, composition, and structure
-population growth and structure
-reproductive rights, including sexual and reproductive health and mortality
-population distribution, urbanization and internal migration
-international migration and refugees
III. Other Decades/Conferences that Addressed Women's Issues
United Nations Decade for Women (1975-1985)
Major conferences held in 1975, 1980, 1985
World Conference on Human Rights (Vienna, 1993)
Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing, 1995)