New Population Policies: Advancing Women’s Health and Rights

A 40-page report that provides a comprehensive overview of the new policies that place women at the center of efforts to address population concerns. The report explains how the international consensus reached at the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) Cairo conference transformed the world's approach to population policies and made reproductive health part of international dialogue. It also looks at how governments are trying to incorporate this approach into their policies and programmes. Though the gains have been uneven, and nonexistent in some places, more countries are taking steps to provide women better opportunities and to link and improve a range of reproductive health services.