A radical new understanding of the connection between inhabitants, improvement, particular person rights, and well-being was established in the course of the 1994 United Nations Worldwide Convention on Inhabitants and Growth (ICPD), which passed off in Cairo – writes Mazahir Afandiyev, Member of the Milli Majlis of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
Reproductive well being, human rights safety, and the battle in opposition to the exploitation of girls and kids had been the important thing subjects of dialogue there. Because of this, the Cairo settlement, also called the ICPD Programme of Motion, was adopted. The Programme of Motion states that reproductive well being and different human rights are elementary to each particular person well-being and sustainable improvement.
The ICPD Programme of Motion has been the topic of discussions for the previous 30 years at totally different ranges. The successes of this system are extremely assessed by the states, representatives of civil society, worldwide consultants, and parliamentarians in reference to the formation of a legislative framework.
The legislative framework being constructed advantages from legislators’ discussions of latest subjects focused at restoring realities and enacting legislative measures on this regard. These discussions may also assist stop violations of elementary rights.
When the settlement was adopted in Cairo in 1994, a comparatively restricted variety of parliamentary representatives took half in talks about human rights and freedoms and common human beliefs in a very clear method. Nevertheless, parliamentarians needed to talk about the safety of liberties and human rights, which was backed by quite a few suppose tanks and scientific research.
Since 2002, worldwide conferences of legislators have been held by the United Nations Inhabitants Fund (UNFPA) and parliamentary networks for the safety of sexual and reproductive well being and rights (SRHR) to handle the mobilization of obtainable assets and set up an atmosphere that promotes the dialogue of subjects associated to the conclusion of reproductive rights.
A novel instrument designed to convey parliamentarians collectively globally and translate that consensus into tangible coverage, monetary, and accountability outcomes on the nationwide degree is the Worldwide Parliamentarians’ Convention on the Implementation of the Worldwide Convention on Inhabitants and Growth (IPCI/ICPD).
The primary Worldwide Parliamentarians’ Convention on the Implementation of the ICPD Programme of Motion passed off in Ottawa, Canada, in November 2002. Subsequent conferences had been held in France (2004), Thailand (2006), Ethiopia (2009), Turkey (2012), Sweden (2014), and Ottawa, Canada, which hosted the seventh one in October 2018.
You will need to level out that the Worldwide Convention on Inhabitants and Growth (ICPD) will rejoice its thirtieth anniversary in 2024 on the 57th session of the United Nations Fee on Inhabitants and Growth. In the course of the convention that passed off on October 19–20, 2023, in Geneva, it was determined to carry the following eight Worldwide Parliamentarians’ Convention on the Implementation of the ICPD Programme of Motion in Norway on April 10–12, 2024, on the eve of the thirtieth anniversary of the ICPD. The dialogue additionally coated the progress made within the discipline of the ICPD Programme of Motion since 2014.
Over 300 people from 120 nations attended this 12 months’s convention, together with over 200 lawmakers, ministers, UN representatives, and members of civil society. This was one of many achievements of the convention, the place the Azerbaijani parliament was additionally represented.
In gentle of the previous 30 years, it’s evident that points associated to reproductive well being, cleanliness, the planet’s demographics, acceptable household planning, guaranteeing common entry to healthcare, and methods for stopping violations of the rights of girls and kids who want particular consideration are nonetheless necessary.
At this time, in the course of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the adoption of resolutions and papers pertaining to the safety of human rights, reproductive well being, and different comparable liberties was the first agenda merchandise for the Eight Worldwide Parliamentarians’ Convention, which was held in Norway. Implementing the problems expressed within the doc adopted in Cairo in 1994 was one of many convention’s specific instructions.
The Republic of Azerbaijan has been actively collaborating in all Conferences for the previous 30 years, expressing its views on points associated to each human and demographic improvement whereas sustaining shut ties with the UN Inhabitants Fund and considering the distinctive traits of the Azerbaijani individuals inside the nationwide context.
It’s no secret that, on account of the First Karabakh Struggle, which broke out in response to Armenia’s navy aggression, 1000’s of individuals had been killed, wounded, or captured in newly unbiased Azerbaijan within the early Nineties, and that just about 1,000,000 people turned internally displaced and refugees. Because of this, since 1990, the typical annual progress fell much more in a 10-year interval, as much as 1.3%.
The inhabitants of Azerbaijan was 6,400 thousand individuals in 1994, when the Cairo Doc was adopted. And now, with the 30-year ICPD Programme of Motion in place, we are able to see that Azerbaijan’s inhabitants is anticipated to succeed in roughly 11 million by 2024.
That is unquestionably a testomony to Azerbaijan’s adherence to common values, the Millennium Growth Targets that had been enacted in 2000, the Sustainable Growth Targets that the UN Normal Meeting unanimously adopted in 2015, and the suitable nationwide implementation methods for these worldwide agreements. In our nation, establishments have been established to perform the goals set forth by these common paperwork, and a particular state fee has been established to hold out these duties.
The distribution of papers emphasizing the accomplishments of worldwide governments and states at the side of the ICPD’s thirtieth anniversary celebrations is a transparent indication of this system’s increasing attain. Sadly, points with equality, the violation of girls’s and kids’s rights, and other people’s lack of entry to acceptable schooling and knowledge persist regardless of the nice elements of the work that has been executed.
The Eight Worldwide Parliamentarians’ Convention’s exercise additionally mirrored this. The necessity to create a roadmap for the long run is thus bolstered by the actual curiosity within the experiences of the parliamentarians of Japan and Eire, the present difficult circumstances going through third-world nations, notably these in Africa, and the conversations going down within the parliaments of Muslim states relating to ladies’s equality, rights, and freedoms, in addition to the assure of common entry to trendy healthcare.
On this regard, the adoption by all members of the Oslo Assertion on the Eight Worldwide Convention of Members of Parliament on the implementation of the ICPD Motion Program might be one of many essential objectives and goals of the brand new world order (https://ipciconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Oslo-Assertion-of-Commitment_12-April-2024-12_00-pm-with-logo.pdf).
Writer: Mazahir Afandiyev, Member of the Milli Majlis of the Republic of Azerbaijan
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