Meeting the goals of the ICPD Programme of Action: Key challenges and priorities for Asia and the Pacific, fifteen years on

The International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), held at Cairo in 1994, adopted a comprehensive, and in many ways path-breaking, Programme of Action that has led to the reorientation of population policies and programmes worldwide. The Programme of Action called for a rights-based approach to the formulation and implementation of population policies and programmes that would be responsive to individual needs and aspirations.