ENGLAND/PHILIPPINES/EGYPT:REPORT FROM UNITED NATIONS POPULATION FUND SAYS THE KEY TO SOLVING POPULATION PROBLEMS IS TO EMPOWER WOMEN/PREPARATIONS FOR SUMMIT CONFERENCE IN CAIRO

Record ID: 337819

  • Title: ENGLAND/PHILIPPINES/EGYPT:REPORT FROM UNITED NATIONS POPULATION FUND SAYS THE KEY TO SOLVING POPULATION PROBLEMS IS TO EMPOWER WOMEN/PREPARATIONS FOR SUMMIT CONFERENCE IN CAIRO
  • Date: 14th August 1994
  • Summary: LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM / MANILA, PHILIPPINES / CAIRO,EGYPT (RECENT & AUGUST 14 AND 17, 1994/ RECENT) LONDON (AUGUST 17, 1994) 1. LV DR. NAFIS SADIK ENTERS NEWS CONFERENCE 0.06 2. SCU JOURNALIST LOOKING AT REPORT 0.10 3. GV PRESS CONFERENCE 0.18 4. SCU DR SADIK SAYING THAT IF WE HAD PAID MORE ATTENTION TO THE HEALTH AND RIG
  • Embargoed: 29th August 1994 13:00
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  • Location: LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM/ MANILA, PHILIPPINES/CAIRO,EGYPT
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  • Country: EUROPE AFRICA ASIA Philippines Egypt England United Kingdom MIDDLE EAST
  • Reuters ID: LVADUJXDLC192Q6C2V63LL3GZ8F2
  • Story Text: The United Nations (U.N.) Population Fund released their State of the World Population report for 1994 on Wednesday (August 17).

    It sets the agenda for September's summit conference in Cairo on population and development.

    The report says the key to solving population problems is to empower women. It stresses the need for equal access for men and women to health care, family planning and education.

    U.N. Population Fund executive director Dr Nafis Sadik Launched the report at a news conference in London. She said overpopulation would not be such a problem if we had paid more attention to the health and rights of women 30 years ago.

    The Catholic church has strongly criticised the conference claiming it will promote contraception and abortion. Pope John Paul has spearheaded a Vatican campaign to influence the outcome of the meeting.

    In Manila on Sunday (August 14), hundreds of thousands of Filipinos rallied against a "global dictatorship" deluging the Third World with contraceptives. Top prelate Cardinal Jaime Sin called on the Philippines to boycott the Cairo meeting and condemned alien cultural values being imposed on Filipinos.

    On Tuesday (August 16) Islamic opposition papers in Egypt denounced the planned conference, saying it will go against Moslem morality and promote Western efforts to restrict the growth of Moslem populations.

    Egypt's population minister, Maher Mahran, tried to calm Islamic opposition saying a draft document prepared for the meeting did not violate Moslem morality.

    The Cairo conference aims to draw up a 20-year plan to stabilise world population at 7.27 billion people by the year 2050.

    That isdouble its present size. It wants to increase funding to poor nations for family planning, health care for women and primary education for girls.


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