UN Commission adopts agreement on gender equality, reproductive health

[JURIST] Participants of the Sixth Asian and Pacific Population Conference (APPC) [official website] hosted by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) [official website] declared Sunday that gender equality and reproductive health are indispensable to sustainable development. Ministers and senior officials from 47 countries adopted a comprehensive Asian and Pacific Ministerial Declaration on Population and Development [PDF], which affirms and endorses policies of non-discrimination, of ending violence against women and of universal sexual and reproductive...

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