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In
1994, at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD)
in Cairo, Egypt, the world's governments and civil society committed to
an action plan to ensure universal access to reproductive health information
and services, uphold fundamental human rights including sexual and reproductive
rights, alleviate poverty, secure gender equality, and protect the environment.
Since
1994, both the public and private sectors have made substantial efforts
to transform the ICPD's 20-year-plan into reality. Meaningful gains have
been made, but much remains to be done. The largest generation of adolescents
in history - more than one billion young people - are now entering adulthood
in a rapidly changing world. The exponential increases in HIV/AIDS, persistently
high levels of death and ill health due to preventable complications from
pregnancy and childbirth, inadequate access to family planning services,
and weak public health systems are still major challenges.
We
are deeply concerned that the gap between rich and poor is growing and
that millions of the world's people, but especially women and young people,
are highly vulnerable to HIV/AIDS, sexual coercion and violence, discrimination,
and other violations of their human rights.
We
call on leaders in every walk of life to join us in reaffirming the ICPD's
vision for human development, social justice, economic progress and environmental
preservation. We call on the international community, national governments
and private philanthropic organizations, to prioritize and fund the ICPD
Programme of Action. By signing this leadership statement, we pledge to
do our part.
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(as of 19 January 2005)
Current
Government Leaders | Former Government Leaders
Leaders in Development | Nobel Laureates
| Business Leaders
Foundation Leaders | International
Institutions
Religious Leaders | Health & Rights
|Scientists | Youth
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Government
Leaders (Current)
Isaias Afwerki, President
of The State of Eritrea
Bertie Ahern, Prime Minister
of Ireland
Recep Akdag, Minister of
Health, Turkey
Kamaruzaman Ali, Chairman,
Federation of Family Planning Associations, Malaysia
José Antonio Alvarado,
Minister of Health, Nicaragua
Kenny D. Anthony, Prime Minister
of Saint Lucia
Mariama Aribot, Minister
of Social Affairs for Women and Children, Republic of Guinea
Owen Arthur, Prime Minister
of Barbados
Bashar Al-Assad, President
of the Syrian Arab Republic
Natsagiin Bagabandi, President
of Mongolia
Jan Peter Balkenende, Prime
Minister and Minister of General Affairs of the Netherlands
Jorge Batlle Ibáñez,
President of Uruguay
Engjell Bejtej, Minister
of Labour and Social Affairs, Albania
Silvio Berlusconi, Prime
Minister of Italy
Tony Blair, Prime Minister
of the United Kingdom
Kjell Magne Bondevik, Prime
Minister of Norway
François Bozize, President
of the Central African Republic
Algirdas Brazauskas, Prime
Minister and Former President of Lithuania
Jacques Chirac, President
of France
Brian Chituwo, Minister of
Health, Zambia
Helen Clark, Prime Minister
of New Zealand
Blaise Compaoré, President
of Burkina Faso
Branko Crvenkovski, President
of Macedonia
Idriss Deby, President of
the Republic of Chad
Joseph Deiss, President of
Switzerland
Thierno Habib Diallo, Minister
of Cooperation, Republic of Guinea
Sher Bahadur Deuba, Prime
Minister of Nepal
José Eduardo dos Santos,
President of the Republic of Angola
Valentina Dovzhenko, Minister
of Family, Youth and Children, Ukraine
Janez Drnovšek, President
of the Republic of Slovenia
Tsakhia Elbegdorj, Prime
Minister of Mongolia
Gnassingbe Eyadema, President
of the Republic of Togo
Heinz Fischer, President
of Austria
Vincente Fox Quesada, President
of Mexico
Nilcéa Freire, Minister
of Women's Affairs, Brazil
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, President
of the Republic of Maldives
Stanislav Gross, Prime Minister
of the Czech Republic
Lucio Gutiérrez Borbúa,
President of Ecuador
Tarja Halonen, President
of Finland
Otmar Hasler, Prime Minister
of the Principality of Liechtenstein
John Howard, Prime Minister
of Australia
Ion Iliescu, President of
Romania
Ali Insanov, Minister of
Health of the Republic of Azerbaijan
Bharrat Jagdeo, President
of Guyana
Yahya A. J. J. Jammeh, President
of the Republic of The Gambia
Jean-Claude Juncker, Prime
Minister of Luxembourg
Paul Kagame, President of
Rwanda
Konstandinos Karamanlis,
Prime Minister of Greece
Mathieu Kerekou, President
of the Republic of Benin
Phan Van Khai, Prime Minister
of Vietnam
Junichiro Koizumi, Prime
Minister of Japan
John Agyekum Kufuor, President
of Ghana
Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga,
President of the Republic of Sri Lanka
Aleksander Kwasniewski, President
of Poland
Emile Lahoud, President of
the Republic of Lebanon
Dr. Carmen Largaespada, Minister
of Family Affairs, Nicaragua
Somsavat Lengsavad, Minister
of Foreign Affairs, Laos
Ferenc Mádl, President
of the Republic of Hungary
Moussa Faki Mahamat, Prime
Minister of the Republic of Chad
Svetozar Marovic, President
of Serbia and Montenegro
Paul Martin, Prime Minister
of Canada
Stjepan Mesic, President
of Croatia
Festus G. Mogae, President
of Botswana
Pakalitha B. Mosisili MP,
Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Lesotho
Said Musa, Prime Minister
of Belize
Pervez Musharraf, President
of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan
Bingu wa Mutharika, President
of the Republic of Malawi
Kessai H. Note, President
of the Republic of the Marshall Islands
Apolo R. Nsibambi, Prime
Minister of Uganda
Sam Nujoma, President of
the Republic of Namibia
Peter Anyang Nyongo, Minister
of Planning and National Development, Kenya
Olusegun Obasanjo, President
of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
Tassos Papadopoulos, President
of the Republic of Cyprus
Göran Persson, Prime
Minister of Sweden
Pedro Pires, President of
Cape Verde
Georgi Purvanov, President
of Bulgaria
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Prime
Minister of Denmark
José Luis Rodríguez
Zapatero, Prime Minister of Spain
Arnold Rüütel,
President of the Republic of Estonia
Jorge de Branco Sampaio,
President of Portugal
Denis Sassou-Nguesso, President
of the Republic of the Congo
Gerhard Schröeder, Chancellor
of Germany
Rudolf Schuster, President
of the Slovak Republic
Ludwig D. Scotty, President
of the Republic of Nauru
Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister
of India
Nuth Sokhom, Minister of
Health, Cambodia
Marcela del Mar Suazo, Minister
of the National Institute of Women, Honduras
Frederick Sumaye, Prime Minister
of Tanzania
Jacques Sylla, Prime Minister
of the Republic of Madagascar
Adnan Terzic, Chairman of
the Council of Ministers, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Shinawatra Thaksin, Prime
Minister of the Kingdom of Thailand
Lyonpo Jigmi Y. Thinley,
Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Bhutan
Alejandro Toledo Manrique,
President of the Republic of Peru
Amadan Touman Toure, President
of the Republic of Mali
Guy Verhofstadt, Prime Minister
of Belgium
Vaira Vike-Freiberga, President
of the Republic of Latvia
Vladimir Voronin, President
of Moldova
Séraphine Wakana,
Minister of Planning and Development, Burundi
Jiabao Wen, Premier of the
People's Republic of China
Zurab Zhvania, Prime Minister
of Georgia
Begum Khaleda Zia, Prime
Minister of Bangladesh
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Government Leaders (Former)
Martti Oiva Kalevi Ahtisaari,
Former President of Finland, Crisis Management Initiative
Oscar Arias Sánchez,
Former President of Costa Rica (Nobel Laureate)
Gro Harlem Brundtland, MD
and MPH, Former Prime Minister of Norway; Director General Emeritus World
Health Organization
Fernando Henrique Cardoso,
Former President of Brazil
Ingvar Carlsson, Former Prime
Minister of Sweden
Jimmy Carter, Former President
of the US, Founder of The Carter Center (Nobel Laureate)
William Jefferson Clinton,
Former President of the US, Founder of the William J. Clinton Presidential
Foundation
Guido de Marco, Former President
of Malta
Vigdis Finnbogadottir, Former
President of Iceland
Inder Kumar Gujral, Former
Prime Minister of India
Geoffrey Arama Henry KBE,
Former Prime Minister of the Cook Islands
Janet Jagan, Former President
of Guyana
Michal Kovác, Former
President of the Slovak Republic
Nelson Mandela, Former President
of South Africa, Founder of the Nelson Mandela Foundation (Nobel Laureate)
Pascoal Mocumbi, Former Prime
Minister of Mozambique
Sylvestre Ntibantunganya,
Former President of Burundi
Punsalmaa Ochirbat, Former
President of Mongolia
Nassour G. Ouaïdou,
Former Prime Minister of Chad
Moeen A. Qureshi, Former
Prime Minister of Pakistan
Fidel V. Ramos, Former President
of the Philippines
Mary Robinson, Former President
of Ireland; Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Anibal Cavaco Silva, Former
Prime Minister of Portugal
Mário Alberto Nobre
Lopes Soares, Former President of Portugal
Megawati Soekarnoputri, Former
President of Indonesia
Abdurahman Wahid, Former
President of Indonesia
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Leaders in Development
José Barzelatto, Vice
President, The Center for Health and Social Policy
Robert Black, Johns Hopkins
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Ruth Cardoso, Ph.D, President,
Comunidade Solidaria
Liang Dan, Director, Investment
and Technology Promotion Branch, UNIDO
Ihsan Dogramaci, President
and Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Bilkent University
Stephen Isaacs, President,
The Center for Health and Social Policy
Carl Kendall, Tulane University
School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Vazgen Khachikyan, National
Assembly of Armenia
Bernard Kouchner, Founder,
Médecins Sans Frontières
William H. Luers, President,
UNA-USA
Graça Machel, Chancellor
of the University of Cape Town
Siti Hasmah Mohd Ali, International
Steering Committee for the Advancement of Rural Women
Aguas Ocana de Maduro, First
Lady of Honduras
Fred Sai, Presidential Adviser,
Reproductive Health & HIV/AIDS, Ghana
Andrew Young, Chairman, Good
Works International
Muhammad Yunus, Ph.D.,Founder
and Managing Director, Grameen Bank
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Nobel Laureates
Philip Anderson, Princeton
University
Kenneth Arrow, Stanford University
Nicolaas Bloembergen, University
of Arizona
Arvid Carlsson, Göteborg
University
Richard R. Ernst, ETH Zürich
Val L. Fitch, Princeton University
Jerome Friedman, MIT University
Robert F. Furchgott, SUNY
Health Science Center
Nadine Gordimer, Author
Dudley Herschbach, Harvard
University
Roald Hoffmann, Cornell University
Jerome Karle, President,
World Innovation Foundation
Klaus von Klitzing, Max Planck
Institute
Aaron Klug, MRC Laboratory
of Molecular Biology
Sir Harold Kroto, University
of Sussex
Jean-Marie Lehn, College
of France
Rita Levi-Montalcini, Institute
of Neurobiology
Rigoberta Menchú Tum,
Rigoberta Menchú Tum Foundation
Norman F. Ramsey, Harvard
University
Burton Richter, SLAC
Richard J. Roberts, New England
Biolabs
Jack Steinberger, European
Center for Nuclear Research
Henry Taube, Stanford University
Charles H. Townes, University
of California, Berkeley
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Business Leaders
Tony Barclay, President &
CEO, Development Alternatives, Inc.
Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, Vice
Chairman & CEO, Nestle SA
Ian Cockerill, CEO, Gold
Fields Ltd.
Lawrence Cooley, President,
Management Systems International
John Demsey, President, MAC
Cosmetics
Jack Garvey, CEO, The Crown
Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations Ltd
Thulani S. Gcabashe, CEO,
Eskom
Robert B. Hass, Chairman,
Levi Strauss & Co.
William Haseltine, Human
Genome Sciences
Mary Ann Leeper, President
& COO, The Female Health Company
Paul Meyer, Chairman &
CEO, Voxiva Inc.
B. Muthuraman, Managing Director,
Tata Iron & Steel Co. Ltd.
Joseph Saba, CEO, Axios International
Roger Sant, Co-Founder, The
AES Corporation
Ratan N. Tata, Chairman,
Tata Industries Limited
Tony Trahar, CEO, Anglo American
Plc.
Ted Turner, Chairman, Turner
Enterprises
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Foundation Leaders
Margaret Ayers, Executive
Director, Robert Sterling Clark Foundation
Marma Erla Barillas, Executive
Director, Rigoberta Menchú Tum Foundation
Susan V. Berresford, President,
Ford Foundation
Paul Brest, President, The
William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
Cindie Carroll-Pankherst,
President, The Brush Foundation
Gordon Conway, President,
Rockefeller Foundation
Victor DeLuca, President,
Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation
Edith Eddy, Executive Director,
Compton Foundation Inc.
Jonathon F. Fanton, President,
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Theresa Fay-Bustillos, Executive
Director, Levi Strauss Foundation
Stephen Foster, Executive
Director, Overbrook Foundation
Lilia Garcia-Leyva, Executive
Director, MAC AIDS Fund and MAC Global Foundation
Mardi Kildebeck, Trustee,
Mary Wohlford Foundation
Carol S. Larson, President
& CEO, The David and Lucille Packard Foundation
Ed Miller, President, WestWind
Foundation
Aryeh Neier, President, Open
Society Institute
Kavita Ramdas, President
& CEO, Global Fund for Women
Victoria Sant, President,
The Summit Foundation
Sandra Silverman, President,
The Scherman Foundation
Karen R. Sollins, Chair,
The Scherman Foundation
Mary Ann Stein, President,
Moriah Fund
Haryono Suyono, Vice Chairman,
Damandiri Foundation
Rien van Gendt, Executive
Director, Van Leer Group Foundation
Henry Scott Wallace, President,
Wallace Global Fund
Timothy E. Wirth, President,
United Nations Foundation
Wren Wirth, President, The
Winslow Foundation
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International Institutions
Louise Arbour, High Commissioner,
UNHCHR
Carol Bellamy, Executive
Director, UNICEF
Anwarul K. Chowdhury, United
Nations Under-Secretary General, High Representative for the LDC's, LLDC's
and SIDS
Noeleen Heyzer, Executive
Director, UNIFEM
Paul Hunt, UN Special Rapporteur
Enrique V. Iglesias, President,
Inter-American Development Bank
Donald J. Johnston, Secretary
General, OECD
Irene Khan, Secretary General,
Amnesty International
Stephen Lewis, Special Envoy
of the Secretary-General for HIV/AIDS in Africa
Mark Malloch Brown, Administrator,
UNDP
Thoraya Obaid, Executive
Director, UNFPA
Peter Piot, Executive Director,
UNAIDS
Romano Prodi, President,
European Commission
Rubens Ricupero, Secretary
General, UNCTAD
Jeffrey Sachs, Director,
The Millennium Project; Special Advisor to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan
Nafis Sadik, MD, Special
Envoy to the UN Secretary General for HIV/AIDS in Asia
Jean-Louis Sarbib, Senior
Vice President, Human Development Network, The World Bank
Javier Solana, EU High Representative
for Common Foreign and Security Policy
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Religious Leaders
Denise M. Ackermann, Professor
Extraordinary of Christian Theology, University of Stellenbosch
Marcus Braybrooke, President,
World Congress of Faiths
F. Peter Brinkman, Associate
Director, International Committee for Peace Council
Rev. Joan Brown Campbell,
Chair, Global Women's Peace Initiative
Rev. Ray Buchanan, President
& CEO, Stop Hunger Now
Janice Clark, World Federation
of Methodist and Uniting Church Women
Bob Edgar, General Secretary,
National Council of Churches
Farid Esack, Ethics, Religion
& Society Chair, Xavier University
Blu Greenberg, Jewish Orthodox
Feminist Alliance
Frank T. Griswold III, Presiding
Bishop, Episcopal Church
Debra W. Haffner, Director,
Religious Institute on Sexual Morality, Justice and Healing
Joseph C. Hough Jr, President,
Union Theological Seminary
Benjamin J. Hubbard, Professor
and Chair, Department of Comparative Religion, California State University,
Fullerton
Daniel C. Maguire, President,
Religious Consultation on Population, Reproductive Health and Ethics
James B. Martin-Schramm,
Associate Professor of Religion, Luther College
Dena Merriam, Convener, Global
Peace Initiative of Women Leadership
Barry Morgan, Archbishop
of Wales
James Parks Morton, Founder
& President, The Interfaith Center of New York
Tavivat Puntarigvivat, Mahidol
University, Department of Humanities
Katharine Jefferts Schori,
Bishop, Episcopal Diocese of Nevada
Melvin G. Talbert, Bishop,
The United Methodist Church
John H. Thomas, General Minister
and President, United Church of Christ
Desmond M. Tutu, Former Archbishop,
South African Council of Churches (Nobel Laureate)
James E. Winkler, General
Secretary, General Board of Church & Society of The United Methodist Church
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Health & Rights
Rashidah Abdullah, Executive
Director, Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women
Lilián Abracinskas,
Coordinator, Mujer y Salud en Uruguay
Sjamsiah Achmad, United Nations
Committee on CEDAW
Carmen Barroso, Director,
International Planned Parenthood Federation, Western Hemisphere Region
Charlotte Bunch, Distinguished
Professor & Executive Director, Center for Women's Global Leadership
Sharon L. Camp, President
& CEO, Allan Guttmacher Institute
Amy Coen, CEO & President,
Population Action International
Cecilia Correa, General Coordinator,
Latin American and Caribbean Network for Sexual and Reproductive Rights
Sonia Corrêa, Research
Coordinator, Development Alternative with Women for a New Era
Susan Crane, Chair, EuroNGOs
Mary Ann Cunningham, Board
Member, National Coalition of American Nuns
Christopher J. Elias, President,
PATH
Regina Figueiredo, AIDS Prevention Studies Nucleus (NEPAIDS), University
of
Sao Paulo and Health Institute, Brazil
Mari-Elise Gbedo, President,
Female Jurists of Benin
Adrienne Germain, President,
International Women's Health Coalition
Geeta Rao Gupta, President,
International Center for Research on Women
Pinar Ilkkaracan, Founding
President, Women for Women's Human Rights - NEW WAYS, Turkey
Brigid Inder, Executive Director,
Women's Initiative for Gender Justice
Jodi Jacobson, Executive
Director, Center for Health and Gender Equity
Archil Khomassuridze, President,
Georgian Association of the Reproductologists
Frances Kissling, President,
Catholics for a Free Choice
Yasuo Kon, Chairman, Japanese
Organization for International Cooperation in Family Planning
Bene Mandunagu, Co-Founder,
Girls' Power, Inc., Nigeria
Florence W. Manguyu, Former
President, Medical Women's International Association
Nancy Northup, President,
Center for Reproductive Rights
Wanda Nowicka, President,
Federation for Women and Family Planning, Poland
Gloria Careaga Perez, Professor,
Psychology Faculty, National Autonomus University of Mexico
Rosalind Petchesky, Distinguished
Professor of Political Science, Hunter College and City University of New
York
Ana Maria Pizarro, Director, Si Mujer, Nicaragua
Saparinah Sadli, Former Vice
Chair, National Commission on Human Rights, Indonesia
Gita Sen, Sir Ratan Chair
Professor, Indian Institute of Management
Jill Sheffield, President,
Family Care International
Steven Sinding, Director
General, International Planned Parenthood Federation
Emily Spry, President, International
Federation of Medical Students' Associations
Nahid Toubia, President,
Research, Action and Information Network for the Bodily Integrity of Women
James Wagoner, President,
Advocates for Youth
June Zeitlin, Executive Director,
Women's Environment and Development Organization
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Scientists
Razmik Abrahamyan, National
Academy of Sciences of Armenia
Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University
Thomas Eisner, Cornell University,
Department of Neurobiology and Behavior
Fawzi Elrefaie, President,
Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research & Technology
John Gibbons, Former Science
Advisor to the President of the United States
Jane Goodall, Founder, The Jane Goodall
Institute
Kurt Gottfried, Chair, Union
of Concerned Scientists
Sa'ad Hijazi, President,
Royal Scientific Society of Jordan
Risto Ihamuotila, President,
Delegation of the Finnish Academies of Science and Letters
Helena Illnerová,
DSc., President, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Kevin Knobloch, President,
Union of Concerned Scientists
Eduardo Moacyr Krieger, President,
Brazilian Academy of Sciences
Willem J.M. Levelt, President,
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Jane Lubchenco, President,
International Council for Science, Distinguished Professor, Oregon State University
Robert May, President, The
Royal Society
Jim Peacock, President, Australian
Academy of Science
C. N. R. Rao, President,
Third World Academy of Sciences
Allan Rosenfield, Dean, Mailman
School of Public Health, Columbia University
Emma Rothschild, Director,
Centre for History and Economics - King's College, Cambridge, UK
Felicia Stewart, MD, University
of California San Francisco, Reproductive Health Research and Policy
Alica Wertheimer-Baletic,
Vice President, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Edward O. Wilson, Harvard
University
George Woodwell, President,
Woods Hole Research
Lu Yongxiang, President,
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Chen Zhu, Co-Chair, InterAcademy
Panel on International Issues
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Youth
Åsa Bjering, President,
National Council of Swedish Youth Organizations
Lesley Bulman, Chief Executive,
World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts
Donald Tinotenda Charumbira,
Secretary General, World Assembly of Youth
Jeppe Bruus Christensen,
Chairman, Danish Youth Council
Audrey Elster, Programme
Manager, African Youth Alliance
Emmanuel Etim, CEO &
President, Center for Development Action International/Africa Youth Leadership
Caucus
Christoffer Gronstad, Norwegian
Youth Council
Kevin Hickey, President,
National Youth Council of Ireland
Agniva Lahiri, Co-Coordinator,
Network of Asia Pacific Youth
Patricia LaRue, Executive
Coordinator, Youth Coalition
Rodelyn M. Marte, Co-Coordinator,
Network of Asia Pacific Youth
Neema Mgana, Founder and
Director, African Regional Youth Initiative
Edford G. Mutuma, Chairperson,
Young African Advocates for Rights
Scott Paul, Chairperson,
SustainUS
George Stasinos, President,
Hellenic Youth Council of Greece
Paulo Vieira, Chair, YouAct
Anneke Wensing, Youth Coordinator,
CHOICE
Yanina Zinchenko, Chairperson,
Belarusian Union of Youth and Children's Public Associations
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