The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), along with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) as co-organiser, and the Swiss Government as host, convened an expert meeting – the European Population Forum (EPF) 2004 – in Geneva on 12-14 January 2004. The Forum considered, inter alia, important, newly emerging population changes, examine challenges they pose and identify best policy responses to them. In this context, it examined the implementation of the ICPD-related regional and global agreements of the 1990s in the UNECE region, particularly in countries in transition. The Forum also considered how the UNECE region can further the implementation of these agreements in the future.

The Forum brought together noted experts from executive and legislative branches of government, academia, research, intergovernmental organisations and institutions, civil society, including non-governmental organisations and the private sector. All participants took part in their personal capacity.

Information

• Information Note
• Description of the Forum

Agenda and Programmes

• Provisional agenda
• Provisional programme

Final documents

• Report of the Forum E  F  R
• List of participants

Related documents

ICPD +10Anniversary

• 10th Anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development

Global Conferences

• Report of International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, 1994

Twenty-first special session of the United Nations General Assembly, New York, 1999

• Key Actions for the further implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development

Regional Conferences

• European Population Conference, Geneva, 1993 - Recommendations

Regional Population Meeting, Budapest, 1998

• Report of the meeting
• Conclusions (Annex I)
• Research areas (Annex II)

Background papers (presented as received from the authors)

Session 1: Global population and development trends: the European view

• Vicky Claeys and Eef Wuyts
  The DAC Watch Compilation. An Overview of Donors' Performance in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
• Joerg Maas and Christian Resch
  Population and reproductive health issues in ECE region: the political scene
• Tomas Frejka
  UNFPA Field Inquiry for the UNECE region

Session 2: Childbearing and parenting in low fertility countries: enabling choices

• Francesco Billari
  Choices, opportunities and constraints on partnership, childbearing and parenting: the patterns
• Anne H. Gauthier
  Choices, opportunities and constraints on partnership, childbearing and parenting: the policy responses

Session 3: Morbidity, mortality and reproductive health: facing challenges in transition countries

• E. Nolte, Martin McKee, Anna Gilmore
  Morbidity and mortality in transition countries in the European context
• Florina Serbanescu
  Reproductive health in transition countries in the European context

Session 4: International migration: promoting management and integration

• Thomas K. Bauer, John P. Haisken-DeNew and Christoph M. Schmidt
  International labour migration, economic growth and labour markets: the dynamics of interrelationships
• Rinus Penninx
  Integration of migrants: economic, social, cultural and political dimensions

Summary of deliberations

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