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US government Head of Delegation Valerie Huber (on mic) reads the joint statement by ten countries flanked by various government representatives who are party to the statement. / ACI Africa

Countering ICPD25: 11-State Joint Statement Faults Summit for Secrecy, Manipulation

Nov 15, 2019

As the controversy-ridden International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD25) comes to an end in Nairobi, Kenya, 11 governments, among them four African nations and the United States of America (U.S.), have decried the manipulation of Cairo Program of Action and the process leading to the Nairobi Summit, which seems to have undermined “the careful and delicate negotiations that led to the consensus-based 1994 ICPD Program of Action.”