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.
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| Information Note | |||
| Description of the Forum | |||
| Agenda and Programmes | |||
| Provisional agenda | |||
| Provisional programme | |||
| Final documents | |||
| Report of the Forum | |||
| List of participants | |||
ICPD +10Anniversary
Global Conferences
Twenty-first special session of the United Nations General Assembly, New York, 1999
Regional Conferences
Regional Population Meeting, Budapest, 1998
- 10th Anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development
- Report of International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, 1994
- Key Actions for the further implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development
- European Population Conference, Geneva, 1993 - Recommendations
- 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
Session 2: Childbearing and parenting in low fertility countries: enabling choices
Session 3: Morbidity, mortality and reproductive health: facing challenges in transition countries
Session 4: International migration: promoting management and integration
- 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 - 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 - 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 - 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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Presentations made at the Forum
Presentations made at the European Population Forum, 2004
The views expressed in the presentations below are those of the presenters and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the secretariat of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe and of the United Nations Population Fund.
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| Monday, 12 January 2004 | ||||
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| Opening Session | ||||
| Chair | Ambassador Walter Fust |
Director General, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation | ||
| Opening Statements by the: | ||||
| Director General of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation | ||||
| Executive Director of UNFPA | ||||
| Executive Director of UNECE | ||||
| European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid | ||||
| Head of the Social Policy Department of the Council of Europe | ||||
| Keynote session 1: Population and development in Europe during the last decade | ||||
| Chair | Ms. Thoraya A. Obaid | Executive Director, UNFPA, USA | ||
| Speakers: | ||||
| Mr. David Coleman | Professor of Demography, University of Oxford, United Kingdom | |||
| Ms. Ursula Haubner | Secretary of State, Federal Ministry for Social Security, Generations and Consumer Protection, Austria | PPT | ||
| Thematic session 1: Global population and development trends: the European view | ||||
| Chair | Ambassador Walter Fust | Director General, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation | ||
| Panelists: | ||||
| Ms. Thoraya A. Obaid | Executive Director, United Nations Population Fund New York, USA | |||
| Mr. Karel van Kesteren | Executive Director UN and International Financial Institutions Ministry for Development Cooperation, The Netherlands | |||
| Dr. Wolfgang Bichmann | KfW Development Bank, Germany | PPT | ||
| Dr. Aikan Akanov | Director General, National Centre of Problems of Healthy Style of Life, Almati, Kazakhstan | PPT | ||
| Ms. Jill Sheffield | President, Family Care International, New York, USA | PPT | ||
| Tuesday, 13 January 2004 | ||||
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| Thematic session 2: "Childbearing and parenting in low fertility countries: enabling choices" | ||||
| Chair | Mr. Steven Sinding | Director General, International Planned Parenthood Federation, United Kingdom | ||
| Panelists: | ||||
| Ms. Anne Gauthier | Professor in Comparative Public Policy, University of Calgary, Canada | PPT | ||
| Mr. Christian Jacob | Secretary for the Family, Ministry of Health, Family and Older Persons, France | |||
| Ms. Arni Hole | Director General, Ministry of Children and Family Affairs, Norway | |||
| Ms. Nada Stropnik | Senior Researcher, Institute for Economic Research, Slovenia | PPT | ||
| Ms. Christine McCafferty | Member of Parliament, House of Commons, United Kingdom | PPT | ||
| Thematic session 3: "Morbidity, mortality and reproductive health: Facing challenges in transition countries" | ||||
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| Chair | Ms. Lynette Lowndes | Head, European Department, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Switzerland | ||
| Panelists: | ||||
| Ms. Valentina Leskaj | Member of Parliament, Albania | PPT | ||
| Ms. Ellen Nolte | Lecturer in Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom | PPT | ||
| Mr. Vladimir Shkolnikov | Head, Data Laboratory, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany | PPT | ||
| Dr. Gunta Lazdane | Regional Adviser, Reproductive Health and Research, WHO Regional Office for Europe, Denmark | PPT | ||
| Mr. Dominic Haazen | Health Program Team Leader, World Bank, Latvia Office | PPT | ||
| Wednesday, 14 January 2004 | |||||
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| Thematic session 4: "International migration: promoting management and integration" | |||||
| Chair | Mr. Gervais Appave | Director, Migration Policy and Research, International Organization for Migration, Switzerland | |||
| Panelists: | |||||
| Mr. Peter J. Van Krieken | Special Advisor, Ministry of Justice, The Netherlands | ||||
| Mr. Martin Baldwin-Edwards | Co-Director, Mediterranean Migration Observatory, Greece | ||||
| Mr. Jonas Widgren | Director General, International Centre for Migration Policy Development, Vienna, Austria | ||||
| Ms. Rosaline Frith | Director General Integration, Citizenship and Immigration Canada | PPT | |||
| Mr. Dominik Langenbacher | Delegate for Migration Dialogue, Federal Office for Refugees, Switzerland | ||||
| Keynote session 2: "Policy challenges of Europe's demographic changes: cross-cutting issues" | |||||
| Chair | Ms. Janina Jozwiak | President, European Association of Population Studies, Poland | |||
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| Mr. Jérôme Vignon | Director, Social Protection and Social Integration, DG Employment and Social Affairs, European Commission, Belgium | ||||
| Mr. Paul Demeny | Distinguished Scholar, Population Council, New York, USA | ||||
| Closing Session: "International migration: promoting management and integration" | |||||
| Chair | Ms. Thoraya A. Obaid | Executive Director, UNFPA, USA | |||
| Statements by the: | |||||
| Director General of the Swiss Federal Statistical Office | |||||
| Executive Director of UNFPA | |||||
| Director General of IPPF | |||||
| European Commission, Director of Social Protection and Social Integration | |||||
| The President of European Association of Population Studies (EAPS) | |||||
| President of the Inter-European Parliamentary Forum on Population and Development (IEPFPD) | |||||
| Reactions | |||||
| Thematic session 1 | |||||
| Ms. Irirna Badurashvili (Georgian Centre for Population Research), Georgia | |||||
| Mr. Victor Bernhardtz (Swedish Association for Sexuality Education), Sweden | |||||
| Mr. Robert Gehring (US Department of Sate), United States | |||||
| Dr. Radosveta Stamenkova (Bulgarian Family Planning and Sexual HealthAssociation), Bulgaria | |||||
| NGO Contribution | |||||
| Mrs. Amy Coen (Popualtion Action International) | |||||
| Ms. Valentina Steshenko, Ukraine | |||||
| Thematic session 2 | |||||
| Mr. James Calleja (International Insitute on Ageing), Malta | |||||
| Ms. Marlyse Dormond (PLANES), Switzerland | |||||
| Mr. Dirk Jarré (ICSW), Germany | |||||
| Mrs. Ana Manso (Portuguese Parliament), Portugal | |||||
| Mr. Paul-Eerik Rummo (Ministry Population), Estonia | |||||
| Mr. Paolo Sestito (Ministry of Labour and Social Policies), Italy | |||||
| Prof. Joseph Troisi (University of Malta), Malta | |||||
| Ms. Anne Van Lancker (European Parliament) | |||||
| Ms. Anne Weyman (FPA), United Kingdom | |||||
| Ms. Wanda Nowicka, Poland | |||||
| Ms. Anneke Wensing (Choice YouAct), Netherlands | |||||
| Thematic session 3 | |||||
| Ms. Irirna Badurashvili (Georgian Centre for Population Research), Georgia | |||||
| Mr. Victor Bernhardtz, Sweden; Ms. Gemma Hobcraft, United Kingdom; Ms. Elina Juntunen, Finland; Ms. Shannon Kowalski, Canada; Mr. Cristian Nita, Romania; Ms. Anneke Wensing, Netherlands, Ms. Elisabete Gomes Ramos, Portugal |
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| Call for action | |||||
| Mrs. Dilys Cossey (Interact Worldwide), United Kingdom | |||||
| Ms. Gemma Hobcraft (Youth Coalition), United Kingdom | |||||
| Ms. Ivete Kelle (Family Planning Association), Latvia | |||||
| Dr. Nada Ler Sofronic (Women and Society Research, Policy and Advocacy Center), Bosnia and Herzegovina | |||||
| Mr. Patrick Marcham (US Department of Health and Human Services), United States | |||||
| Mr. Zinaida Sevkovskaya (Reaserch Institute for Mother&Child Care), Republic of Belarus | |||||
| Mr. Werner Fornos, Herald Tribune or Population Institute, USA | |||||
| Thematic session 4 | |||||
| Mr. Raimondo Cagiano de Azevedo (University La Sapienza), Italy | |||||
| Mrs. Maria José Carrilho (National Statistical Office), Portugal | |||||
| Ms. Rebecca Casanova (Family Care International), United States | |||||
| Mr. Gaye Erbatur (Turkish Parliament), Turkey | |||||
| Mr. Lars Østby (Statistics Norway), Norway | |||||
| Ms. Catherine McDonald (Action Canada for Population and Development), Canada | |||||
| Mr. Cristian Nita (You Act), Romania | |||||
| Mrs. Dagmar Ratajova (Ministry of Labour Social Affairs), Czech Republic | |||||
| Mrs. Astride Stuckelberger (Swiss Society of Gerontology), Switzerland | |||||
| Mr. Paolo Sestito (Ministry of Labour and Social Policies), Italy | |||||
| Ms. Vlada Stankuniene, Lithuania | |||||
| Dr. Imre Szekeres (Prime Minister’s Office), Hungary | |||||