The Harvard University School of Public Health, Department of Global Health and Population T.H. CHAN, promoted a symposium, on April 26, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD).
The event was opened by its Dean, Professor Andrea Bacarelli, and by the School Director, Professor Márcia Castro. The Director General of the United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA, Natalia Kenem spoke about the importance of the ICPD in transforming debates on population from a demographic perspective to a human rights perspective and its effects on the lives and sexual and reproductive health of girls and women. Jacqueline Pitanguy presented the trajectory, in which she participated, of the feminist women’s movements for their strategic impact in this conference, from the preparatory meetings at the UN and in events co-organized by CEPIA in Brazil, such as the meeting in 1993 in Brasília that approved the letter Our Rights for Cairo 94 and the international meeting organized by CEPIA and the International Women’s Health Coalition in Rio de Janeiro that brought together women from 90 countries who approved the Reproductive Health and Justice document. To learn more about the symposium.
