This most recent UNFPA publication gives an overview of the Asia and Pacific Region; provides a detailed analysis of some of the crucial issues facing the region - adolescent reproductive health, population ageing, rising spread of HIV/AIDS, gender discrimination, gender-based violence, situations of crisis; and highlights UNFPA's core interventions and major initiatives in each of these areas.
Year of publication: 2003
Population, Reproductive Health and the Millennium Development Goals
How the ICPD Programme of Action Promotes Poverty Alleviation and Human Rights
This publication highlights the importance of the ICPD Programme of Action, the "Cairo+5" discussions and subsequent experience and agreements as we mobilize to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.
Year of publication: 2003
Reproductive Health Education for Young People
Enabling Choices... Promoting Empowerment
The ICPD Programme of Action recognized education as a key factor in sustainable development and in the development of well-being through it's links with demographic as well as social factors. This publication provides an overview of how UNFPA integrates education activities in all its programs on population, reproductive health,gender and HIV/AIDS with an emphasis on the needs of
young people. It also highlights successful education programmes in selected countries."
Year of publication: 2003
The Road to Global Reproductive Health
Reproductive Health and Rights on the International Agenda, 1968–2003
This publication charts the development of international co-operation on reproductive health through the UN system and outlines the language and declarations, which should be delivering these vital health and human
rights services to people in every nation. Published by To Better Communication project, coordinated by the media/adavocacy working group of the Eurongos and sponsored by UNFPA.
UNFPA’s Contribution to the Goals of the World Summit for Children
This publication documents UNFPA's contribution to the goals of the World Summit for Children and its commitment to young people. This commitment, anchored in the ICPD Programme of Action, includes support in four major areas: girls' education, adolescent reproductive and sexual health, HIV/AIDS prevention, and maternal mortality. Examples of UNFPA-funded projects in each of these areas are presented, as are strategies for moving forward.
Published by The Safe Motherhood Inter-Agency Group
The Guide lists and describes a range of available materials and resources that can be used to design safe motherhood interventions at the local and national levels. The goal of the Guide is to ensure that individuals and organizations responsible for supporting, designing and implementing safe motherhood programs in developing countries know about the most effective and cost-effective strategies, and know how to access existing resources that can help them carry out these strategies.
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