ICPD Programme of Action

The 1994 ICPD conference adopted a 20-year Programme of Action (PoA), which focused on individuals' needs and rights, rather than on achieving demographic targets.

Advancing gender equality, eliminating violence against women and ensuring women's ability to control their own fertility were acknowledged as cornerstones of population and development policies. Concrete goals of the ICPD centred on providing universal education; reducing infant, child and maternal mortality; and ensuring universal access by 2015 to reproductive health care, including family planning, assisted childbirth and prevention of sexually transmitted infections including HIV/AIDS.

Chapter VII of the PoA specifically addresses Reproductive Health and Rights.

Source: UNFPA