ICPD Beyond 2014 – next steps along the way to the 2014 General Assembly Special Session

With 13 months to go to the UN General Assembly Special Session for ICPD Beyond 2014, preparations are well underway. Two of the five Regional meetings have been held and the next one is taking place on 12-15 August, with those for the Asia and Pacific Region and Africa, (for which the dates have been changed). In addition the International Conference on Human Rights has taken place.

The next important meeting will be the ICPD Beyond 2014 Expert Meeting on Women's Health -Rights, Empowerment and Social Determinants which will be held in Mexico City from 30th Sept to 2nd October Mexico City. For more information, as it becomes available, see here for further details.

All these processes will feed into the documentation for the UN Commission on Population and Development that will be held in New York next year.  It is expected that the general debate will be organized around the four themes identified in the report entitled Initial Findings of ICPD beyond 2014 Global Review circulated last month by UNFPA. These themes are Dignity, Health, Place and Governance. Specific issues will be addressed that will follow the various sections of the Global Survey, as responded to by governments and also by CSOs through the CSO Global Survey, eg population and sustainable development, sexual and reproductive health and rights, gender, youth, the elderly, the disabled, indigenous people, migration and education.