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Critical review of the Programme of Action of the 1994 Caïro International Conference on Population and Development. The role of demographic and population experts appears to have been only minor. This is illustrated by examples of the terminology and definitions used. Population data and demographic observations received scant attention. Observations on the relation between mortality and fertility illustrate the difficulty to formulate complex relationships concisely in a document of this nature. The article discusses the knowledge base of the new approach on the relationship between population and sustainable development. Observations are also presented on issues which occupied a prominent place during the conference, such as the question of the empowerment of women and issues of values and culture in relation to fundamental rights regarding procreation.
This contribution is based on a speech for the Annual Meeting of the ’Deutsche Gesellschaft für Bevölkerungswissenschaft’, Halle, 15 February, 1995.
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Van De Kaa, D.J. (1996). The Cairo Conference: A demographer’s view. In: van den Brekel, H., Deven, F. (eds) Population and Family in the Low Countries 1995. European Studies of Population, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1641-8_2
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