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STORY: UN / ELIASSON POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT
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DATELINE: 7 APRIL 2014, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
7 APRIL 2014, NEW YORK CITY
2. Pan right, conference room
3. Pan left, audience
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Jan Eliasson, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations:
"Gender equality and the empowerment of women are gaining ground worldwide; more people are living longer and are living healthier lives; more girls are in school; fewer women are dying in pregnancy and childbirth; there are more laws to protect and uphold human rights. Yet, in the midst of this human progress, the continued exclusion of some groups and the potential for serious environmental damage puts these gains at risk."
5. Pan left, audience
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Jan Eliasson, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations:
"Changing age, household and family structures as well as rapid urbanization and migration pose new challenges for human development. We have an urgent responsibility to invest in creating opportunities and a supportive environment for innovation and entrepreneurship for persons of all ages, in particular for young people. It is crucial to invest in their health and their education, to review legislation, standards and practices that restrict their full participation and access to sexual and reproductive health services."
7. Zoom out, conference room
Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson today (7 Apr) said that though major progress has taken place since the landmark Cairo population conference in 1994, major challenges remain.
Eliasson said "gender equality and the empowerment of women are gaining ground worldwide; more people are living longer and are living healthier lives; more girls are in school; fewer women are dying in pregnancy and childbirth; there are more laws to protect and uphold human rights.”
Yet, he added, “in the midst of this human progress, the continued exclusion of some groups and the potential for serious environmental damage puts these gains at risk."
The outcome of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), held in Cairo in 1994, reflected a remarkable consensus among 179 UN Member States and others that individual human beings should be the central focus of efforts to promote social and economic development.
This year’s meeting centres around a 20-year review of decisions taken in Cairo.
Eliasson said "changing age, household and family structures as well as rapid urbanization and migration pose new challenges for human development.”
He stressed the need to “invest in creating opportunities and a supportive environment for innovation and entrepreneurship for persons of all ages, in particular for young people.”
The UN official said it was “crucial to invest in their health and their education, to review legislation, standards and practices that restrict their full participation and access to sexual and reproductive health services."
The Cairo Conference established that increasing access to health and education, and protecting human rights, especially those of women and adolescents, would help secure a better social and economic future and lead to more sustainable population trends.
UN Member States set goals through the ICPD Programme of Action, which includes targets on poverty and inequality, women and girls, young people, reproductive health and rights, environmental sustainability, ageing, urbanization and migration.
