Wednesday January 7, 2004

United Nations Organized European Population Forum Next Week

NEW YORK, January 7, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The United Nations has organized a European Population Forum at the Palais des Nations in Geneva from 12 to 14 January 2004. A UN press release on the Forum says it, "will consider challenges posed by current and emerging demographic trends in the European region, including countries in transition."

However, rather than give first priority to the massive depopulation problem in Europe, the forum, led by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, lists as a top priority "efforts to ensure universal access to reproductive health services -- including family planning, safe motherhood and HIV/AIDS prevention -- by 2015."

The forum will also consider the "causes and consequences of low fertility in ECE countries, particularly in Southern, Central and Eastern Europe." The UN release on the meeting suggests that rather than combat the anti-child-bearing mentality at the root of the depopulation crisis, the forum suggests, "policy options enabling the combination of work and family, childbearing and parenting, e.g., those facilitating access to free or subsidized child care and providing financial support to families with children."

For more information see the
www.unece.org/ead/pau/epf

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