POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION ACCREDITS 24 NGOS FOR ASSEMBLY SPECIAL SESSION ON IMPLEMENTATION OF 1994 CAIRO CONFERENCE PROGRAMME OF ACTION
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POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION ACCREDITS 24 NGOS FOR ASSEMBLY SPECIAL SESSION ON IMPLEMENTATION OF 1994 CAIRO CONFERENCE PROGRAMME OF ACTION
19990625 The Commission on Population and Development, acting as the preparatory committee for the General Assembly's upcoming special session that will review the Programme of Action adopted by the International Conference on Population and Development held in Cairo in 1994, this morning decided to accredit 24 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to the special session.The Commission has scheduled four days for negotiations in preparation for the special session to be held at Headquarters from 30 June to 2 July.
The NGOs accredited to the special session were: Action Canada for Population and Development; Association des Demographes Marocains; Australian Reproductive Health Alliance, Inc., Austrian Foundation for World Population and International Cooperation; Botswana National Youth Council; Center on International Cooperation (United States); Centre for Partnership in Development (Norway); Cooperative des Femmes pour l'Education, la Sante Familiale et l'Assainissement (Mali); DKT International (Philippines); and Equidad de Genero: Cuidadania, Trabajo y Familia (Mexico).
Also accredited were: HelpAge India; Institute of Population Research, Peking University (China); Institute of Women and Ethnic Studies (United States); Mauritanian Association for Development and Environment Protection; Mujer y Salud en Uruguay; Namibia Planned Parenthood Association; National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (United States); National Abortion Federation (United States); National Asian Women's Health Organization (United States); National Federation of Youth Organisations in Bangladesh; Philippine NGO Council on Population, Health and Welfare, Inc.; Radin Institute for Family Health Education and Promotion (Iran); United States Committee for the United Nations Population Fund; Wallace Global Fund (United States).
Committee Chairman, Anwarul Karim Chowdhury (Bangladesh), in response to a question from the representative of Sudan on other aspects of NGO
participation, said the Committee had decided previously that participation of NGO's should be on an equal and sufficient basis. The Committee planned to stand by that decision and it was his responsibility to ensure that decision was enforced.
At its last session, held from 22 March to 1 April, the preparatory committee approved organizational matters for the special session, but was unable to agree on key proposals for the further implementation of the Cairo Programme of Action; therefore, it decided to resume its session to act on those proposals.
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