UN REPORT SAYS WORLD URBAN POPULATION OF 3 BILLION TODAY

EXPECTED TO REACH 5 BILLION BY 2030

Commission on Population and Development                   

Thirty-seventh Session                                     

3^rd and 4^th Meetings (AM & PM)

Commission on Population and Development                   

Thirty-seventh Session                                     

1^st & 2^nd Meetings (AM & PM)

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS TO HIGHLIGHT MIGRATION, POPULATION ISSUES

NEW YORK, 22 March (UN Population Division) -- Three keynote speakers will examine global concerns at this week’s meeting of the Commission on Population and Development at United Nations Headquarters.

Lack of Funds For Cairo Consensus Threatens World’s Poverty

Reduction, Development Goals, UNFPA Warns

Background Release                                         

UN COMMISSION ON POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT TO MEET IN NEW YORK, 22 - 26 MARCH

Theme:  Review of Action Programme

THE AMERICAS REAFFIRM REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CONSENSUS

United States in Lone Dissent

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SANTIAGO (CHILE), 11 March (UNFPA) -- By a nearly unanimous decision, countries in Latin America and the Caribbean today reaffirmed support for the population and reproductive health action plan adopted at Cairo 10 years ago.

AMSTERDAM Conference Examines Links Between Reproductive Rights, Culture

UNFPA WELCOMES US CONGRESS SUPPORT, URGES ADMINISTRATION TO RELEASE FUNDS

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New York, 23 January (UNFPA) – The UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, today welcomed United States lawmakers’ decision to appropriate $34 million for the Fund for fiscal year 2004, and urged the Administration not to withhold the money.

IRANIAN EARTHQUAKE SURVIVORS FACE CONTINUING HEALTH EMERGENCY, UNFPA WARNS

Appeals Seeks to Assist Vulnerable Women and Families

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