PSN Co-ordinator Delivers Ethical Position Paper

3 October 2008

PSN Co-ordinator Karen Newman recently addressed the delegates at the EuroNGOs annual meeting in Lyon. The session held a moderated debate examining the the capacity to approach population growth issues and their interface with climate change, from a rights-based perspective. 

The EuroNGOs AGM held in Lyon France and attended by over 40 NGOs, funding bodies and academics working in the field of sexual and reproductive health and rights, development and population issues, provided a key opportunity for organizations to coordinate efforts in the forthcoming year over the ICPD at 15 strategy.

The three-day long conference provided an opportunity to address the relationship between climate change and population growth, and the planned international efforts to mark ICPD at 15.  Delegates at the conference ranged from EuroNGOs European network members to representatives from UNFPA, Population Action International and Family Care International amongst others from both sides of the Atlantic and Africa.

Building upon the strategy workshop held earlier in the year, EuroNGOs used the conference agenda to extend the debate on the relationship between climate change and population growth, to other organizations and stakeholders.

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For Karen's presentation click here.