Mr. JOACHIM STYMNE, Secretary of State for Cooperation and Development Sweden, on behalf of the European Union (EU), said that the Cairo Conference was a major event to focus on human rights rather than on numbers, and the emergence of a global consensus on issues related to population and development. Since 1994, infant mortality has [...]
The international community has worked hard to achieve this progress, but far too many people for the Cairo consensus continues to be more objective than a reality, nonetheless deplored the Secretary General. Today, 200 million women still lack access to contraception, early marriage is still valid in too many countries, sexual violence and genital mutilation [...]