Implementation of Fifth APPC’s Plan of Action to be reviewed in 2008

Attending the recently concluded third session of the Committee on Emerging Social Issues (see page 2), delegates from 20 countries in Asia and the Pacific recognized the importance of regularly assessing policies and programmes and recommended that a mid-point review meeting on the implementation of the Plan of Action on Population and Poverty, adopted at the Fifth Asian and Pacific Population Conference on Population and Poverty be convened in 2008.

It also urged the convening in the next few years of a regional review of the implementation of the Bejing Platform for Action adopted at the Fourth World Conference on Women.
Held in December 2002 in Bangkok, the Fifth APPC adopted by consensus a Plan of Action making strategic recommendations in 12 areas pertaining to poverty reduction; including population, sustainable development and poverty; international migration; internal migration and urbanization; population ageing; gender equality; reproductive rights and reproductive health; HIV/AIDS; etc.