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Freedom of Information Act - 15 U.S.C. 552(b)]
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b(1) National security classified information [(b)(1) of the FOIA]
P2 Relating to the appointment to Federal office [(a)(2) of the PRA]
b(2) Release would disclose internal personnel rules and practices of
P3 Release would violate a Federal statute [(a)(3) of the PRA]
an agency [(b)(2) of the FOIA]
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P6 Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
personal privacy |(b)(6) of the FOIA]
personal privacy |(a)(6) of the PRAJ
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purposes [(b)(7) of the FOIA]
C. Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in donor's deed
b(8) Release would disclose information concerning the regulation of
of gift.
financial institutions [(b)(8) of the FOIA]
PRM. Personal record misfile defined in accordance with 44 U.S.C.
b(9) Release would disclose geological or geophysical information
2201(3).
concerning wells [(b)(9) of the FOIA]
RR. Document will be reviewed upon request.
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1999 Population Events
1999
population
FEBRUARY
THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS
NGO Forum. At least 800 NGO
representatives work on strategies to
implement the Programme of Action
as developed by the 1994 International
Conference on Population and
Development in Cairo, Egypt. A special
Youth Forum brings an international
delegation of 120 young people to
discuss their generation's reproductive
health needs and rights.
February 6-7.
The Hague International Forum.
Government delegations from 180
countries review progress on the ICPD
Programme of Action and recommend
key strategies needed to fully
implement it.
February 8-12.
MARCH
NEW YORK CITY
United Nations Commission
Population and Development
delegations meet at a preparatory
session to review recommended actions.
March 22-30.
International Women's Day.
March 8.
over
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: MARSHA BERRY
FEBRUARY 7, 1999
TOBY GRAFF
JULIE MASON
202/456-2960
THE SCHEDULE OF FIRST LADY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
FEBRUARY 7- - 9, 1999
Washington, D.C. -- On Sunday, February 7, 1999, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton will
travel from the Netherlands to Jordan, to join the President on Monday in mourning the death of
King Hussein.
The First Lady will return to the Netherlands from Jordan, to give the keynote address at the
international conference in the Hague organized by the United Nations Population Fund
(UNFPA), on Tuesday, February 9, 1999.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Specific details of the First Lady's public schedule will be released as they
become available. For an overview of the First Lady's trip to the Netherlands and her
participation in the UNFPA conference, please refer to the previously released press paper.
###
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: MARSHA BERRY
FEBRUARY 4, 1999
TOBY GRAFF
JULIE MASON
202/456-2960
THE TRIP OF FIRST LADY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
TO THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS
(FEBRUARY 6 - - FEBRUARY 8, 1999)
Washington, D.C. - First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton will travel to the Netherlands, from
February 6 - February 8, 1999.
The First Lady will keynote an international conference in the Hague being organized by the
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in collaboration with the government of the
Netherlands. The conference will assess overall progress on the program of action adopted at the
International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) held in Cairo, in September
1994.
The action agenda adopted in Cairo by 180 nations placed global population policy within a
broader context of social development and focused on improving the status of women around the
world through the promotion of access to health care including family planning - education
and women's human rights. The gathering in the Hague will reconvene the delegations from the
countries that participated in the Cairo Conference. They will examine the progress made by
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governments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) on population and development and
look at the challenges that remain.
As part of the week-long international conference, Mrs. Clinton will address the NGO Forum on
Sunday and will be the keynote speaker at the Population Forum on Monday. The First Lady's
participation builds on years of her active involvement - both in the United States and around
the world -- in ensuring access to safe, high quality family planning services and health care;
encouraging the economic empowerment of women; and working with NGOs on issues of civic
participation, human rights and social investment.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Specific details of the First Lady's public schedule will be released as they
are available.
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THE HAGUE, HOLLAND / WASHINGTON, DC
7988
LEAD ADVANCE:
PAT HALLEY
HOTEL SOFITEL
ROOM 308
011-31-70-381-4901
PHONE
011-31-70-382-5927 FAX
STAFF OFFICE
ROOM
011-31-70-381-1901
STAFF OFFICE PHONE
011-31-70-385-4823
STAFF OFFICE FAX
011-31-62-220-5567
CELL PHONE
PRESS LEAD
ADVANCE:
STEPHANIE JONES
ROOM 403
011-31-65-151-7778 CELL PHONE
PRESS ADVANCE:
DAN LENOS
ROOM 407
011-31-65-155-4202 CELL PHONE
SITE ADVANCE:
DEHDAN MILLER
ROOM 401
011-31-65-155-4978
CELL PHONE
SITE ADVANCE:
PETER O'KEEFE
ROOM 304
011-31-65-342-9984 CELL PHONE
SITE ADVANCE:
GREG HALE
ROOM 306
011-31-62-220-5661 CELL PHONE
RON ADVANCE:
HUMA ABEDIN
ROOM 307
011-31-65-129-0078 CELL PHONE
SCHEDULER:
EVAN RYAN
202/456-6751
PHONE
202/456-5340
FAX
202/483-0383
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PREV RON
Ambassador's Residence
The Hague
9:40 am
DEPART Ambassador's Residence
EN ROUTE The Netherlands Congress Center
9:45 am
ARRIVE The Netherlands Congress Center
GREETERS:
Dr. Nafis Sadik, Assistant Secretary General of
the United Nations and Executive Director,
UNFPA
Mohammad Nizamuddin, Technical Coordinator
of the
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Forum
Stirling Scruggs, Forum Coordinator
PROCEED to Vermeer Lounge accompanied by Dr.
Sadik
10:00 am- KEYNOTE ADDRESS TO UN POPULATION FORUM
11:40 am
Prins Willem-Alexander Hall
The Netherlands Congress Center
Hold:
Phone:
Fax:
Staff Hold:
Phone:
Fax:
OPEN PRESS
FORMAT:
-The First Lady and other participants are
announced into the hall and escorted to their
seats at the front of the hall.
-Seven minute video detailing the 1994 ICPD
Conference in Cairo is played.
-Upon conclusion of the video, the First Lady
and other stage participants are escorted to
their seats on the dais.
-Dr. Nafis Sadik opens the proceedings by moving
that Ambassador Biegman be elected chair by
acclamation.
-Ambassador Biegman introduces Mayor Deetman.
-Mayor Deetman makes brief remarks.
-Ambassador Biegman introduces Deputy Prime
Minister Borst.
-Deputy Prime Minister Borst makes brief
remarks.
-Ambassador Biegman introduces Deputy Secretary
General Frechette.
-Deputy Secretary General Frechette makes brief
remarks.
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-Dr. Sadik introduces Mrs. Rawlings.
-Mrs. Rawlings makes remarks.
-Dr. Sadik introduces the First Lady.
-The First Lady makes remarks.
-Dr. Sadik makes concluding remarks and
introduces the ASHE Group performers from
Jamaica.
-The ASHE Group performers from Jamaica deliver
a performance depicting the problems of
violence against women.
-Upon conclusion of the performance, the First
Lady exits the hall.
PARTICIPANTS: 1200-2000 guests expected.
11:45 am
DEPART The Netherlands Congress Center
EN ROUTE Government House
11:55 am
ARRIVE Government House
GREETERS:
12:00 pm- COURTESY CALL with Prime Minister Kok
12:30 pm
TBD
Government House
Hold:
Phone:
Fax:
Staff Hold:
Phone:
Fax:
POOL SPRAY/WH PHOTO
PARTICIPANTS:
The First Lady
Prime Minister Kok
Ambassador Cynthia Schneider
Melanne Verveer
Scott Busby
12:35 pm
DEPART Government House
EN ROUTE Embassy of the United States
12:40 pm
ARRIVE Embassy of the United States
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12:45 pm- PRIVATE MEETING
1:00 pm
1:05 pm-
PRIVATE MEETING
1:20 pm
1:25 pm-
PRIVATE MEETING
1:40 pm
1:45 pm
DEPART Embassy of the United States of America
EN ROUTE tbd
2:00 pm-
DOWN TIME
3:25 pm
3:45 pm
ARRIVE The American School
3:50 pm-
U.S. EMBASSY FAMILIES DROP-BY
4:10 pm
TBD
The American School
CLOSED PRESS/WH PHOTO
PARTICIPANTS: 200 guests expected.
4:15 pm-
DROP-BY The American School
4:25 pm
TBD
The American School
Hold:
Phone:
Fax:
CLOSED PRESS/WH PHOTO
PARTICIPANTS: 1000 guests??
Tbd
DEPART The American School
EN ROUTE Schipol Airport
[drive time: 45 minutes??]
Tbd
ARRIVE Schipol Airport
tbd
WHEELS UP Schipol Airport
EN ROUTE Andrews Air Force Base
[flight time: 8 hours, 45 minutes, -6 hours]
tbd
WHEELS DOWN Andrews Air Force Base
tbd
DEPART Andrews Air Force Base
EN ROUTE The White House
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tbd
ARRIVE The White House
WEATHER FORECAST FOR THE HAGUE:
WEATHER FORECAST FOR WASHINGTON, DC:
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THE HAGUE, HOLLAND
LEAD ADVANCE:
PAT HALLEY
HOTEL SOFITEL
ROOM 308
011-31-70-381-4901
PHONE
011-31-70-382-5927 FAX
STAFF OFFICE
ROOM 301
011-31-70-381-1901 STAFF OFFICE PHONE
011-31-70-385-4823
STAFF OFFICE FAX
011-31-62-220-5567 CELL PHONE
PRESS LEAD
ADVANCE:
STEPHANIE JONES
ROOM 403
011-31-65-151-7778 CELL PHONE
PRESS ADVANCE:
DAN LENOS
ROOM 407
011-31-65-155-4202 CELL PHONE
SITE ADVANCE:
DEHDAN MILLER
ROOM 401
011-31-65-155-4978 CELL PHONE
SITE ADVANCE:
PETER O'KEEFE
ROOM 304
011-31-65-342-9984 CELL PHONE
SITE ADVANCE:
GREG HALE
ROOM 306
011-31-62-220-5661 CELL PHONE
RON ADVANCE:
HUMA ABEDIN
ROOM 307
011-31-65-129-0078 CELL PHONE
SCHEDULER:
EVAN RYAN
202/456-6751
PHONE
202/456-5340
FAX
202/483-0383
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PREV RON
Ambassador's Residence
3:40 pm
DEPART Ambassador's Residence
EN ROUTE The Congress Center
3:45 pm
ARRIVE The Congress Center
3:50 pm-
DROP-BY Frank Loy's Meeting with the Yemen
4:00 pm
Delegation
Meeting Room 6
CLOSED PRESS/WH PHOTO
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PARTICIPANTS:
CONTACT:
GREETERS:
Wouter Meijer
Maryann H
....
Joke Van Kampem
4:00 pm-
ADDRESS TO THE NGO FORUM
5:00 pm
Prins Willem-Alexander Hall
The Netherlands Congress Center
Translation: Simultaneous
Hold:
Phone:
Fax:
Staff Hold:
Phone:
Fax:
OPEN PRESS
FORMAT:
-The First Lady proceed on stage.
-Dr. Mahmoud Fathalla delivers welcoming remarks
and introduces Ambassador Beekman.
-Ambassador Beekman delivers brief remarks and
introduces Ambassador Chaudury.
-Ambassador Chaudury delivers brief remarks and
introduces the First Lady.
-The First Lady delivers remarks.
-Dr. Sadeek delivers brief remarks and
introduces Dr. Meier.
-Dr. Meier delivers closing remarks.
-The First Lady and other stage participants
exit stage right.
PARTICIPANTS: 700-800 guests
CONTACT:
5:05 pm-
PHOTO with the NGO Forum Advisory Board
5:10 pm
Meeting Room 6
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PARTICIPANTS: 15
5:10 pm-
PHOTO with the Youth Forum Advisory Board
5:15 pm
Meeting Room 6
PARTICIPANTS: 15
5:20 pm
DEPART The Congress Center
EN ROUTE Aegon Building - ICTY
[drive time: 5 minutes/30 seconds]
5:25 pm
ARRIVE Aegon Building
GREETER: Judge Gabrielle McDonald
5:30 pm-
PRIVATE MEETING
5:45 pm
Judge's Chambers
Aegon Building
ICTY
Hold:
Phone:
Fax:
Staff Hold:
Phone:
Fax:
CLOSED PRESS ARRIVAL/OPEN PRESS DEPARTURE/WH PHOTO
PARTICIPANTS:
The First Lady
Judge Gabrielle McDonald
Melanne Verveer
Theresa Loar, State Department
Scott Busby, NSC
5:50 pm
DEPART Aegon Building - ICTY
EN ROUTE The Ambassador's Residence
tbd
ARRIVE Ambassador's Residence
6:45 pm-
DROP-BY with Dutch Women Leaders
7:00 pm
Dining Room
Ambassador's Residence
CLOSED PRESS/WH PHOTO
PARTICIPANTS:
The First Lady
Ambassador Cynthia Schneider
Annemarie Jorritsma-Lebbink, First Deputy Prime
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Minister and Minister of Economic Affairs
Els Borst-Eilers, Second Deputy Prime Minister
and Minister of Health, Welfare and Sports
Tineke Netelenbos, Minister of Transport and
Public Works
Eveline Herfkens, Minister for Development
Cooperation
J. Van Nieuwenhoven, President of the Second
Chamber of Parliament
PROCEED UPSTAIRS
PROCEED DOWN MAIN STAIRCASE AND TO PODIUM
7:00 pm-
AMBASSADOR'S RECEPTION FOR AMERICAN DELEGATES
7:25 pm
Living Room
Ambassador's Residence
CLOSED PRESS/WH PHOTO
FORMAT:
-Ambassador Cynthia Schneider makes welcoming
remarks and introduces the First Lady.
-The First Lady makes brief remarks.
-Upon conclusion of the First Lady's remarks, a
song is performed by the cast of Ain't
Misbehavin'.
-Upon conclusion of the song, the First Lady is
presented with a CD of the musical from the cast,
and the First Lady takes a photo with the cast.
-The First Lady has the option of working a
ropeline or mixing and mingling before departing
up the staircase.
PARTICIPANTS: 200 guests
CONTACT:
7:30 pm
DOWN FOR EVENING
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: MARSHA BERRY
FEBRUARY 4, 1998
TOBY GRAFF
JULIE MASON
202/456-2960
PRESS SCHEDULE OF THE FIRST LADY'S TRIP
TO THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS
(FEBRUARY 6 - - FEBRUARY 8, 1999)
NOTE: This schedule outlines the First Lady's press events during her trip to the Hague,
Netherlands. This schedule is subject to change. For an overview of the trip, please refer to the
separately-released press paper.
Saturday, February 6
EDITOR'S NOTE: The First Lady will leave Washington late Saturday night and arrive to the
Netherlands Sunday early afternoon. Departure from Andrews AFB and arrival to the Schipol
Airport is closed to the press.
Sunday, February 7
Editor's Note: Credential applications for all forums of the UNFPA Conference can be obtained
on the UNFPA website - http://www.unfpa.org or by contacting UNFPA at 212-297-5011.
4:00 p.m.
Address to the NGO Forum
(10:00 a.m. EST)
Prins Willem-Alexander Hall
Netherlands Congress Centre (NCC)
The Hague
Press notes:
Open press. Final access between 1:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. Press should
use main entrance and proceed to press check-in. Conference will be
conducted in English with simultaneous translation to French and Spanish.
Lighting and mult is provided. Press filing center on-site with mult and
monitors. Throw is approximately 120'. Cameras will be escorted for
cutaway shots. The on-site contacts are Stephanie Jones and Joke Van
Kampen.
5:30 p.m.
Meeting with Judge Gabrielle McDonald, President of the International
(11:30 a.m. EST)
Criminal Tribunal on the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
Courtroom
International Criminal Tribunal on the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Center
Churchillplein I 2517 JW
The Hague
Press notes:
There will be a photo-op inside the courtroom prior to the meeting. Pool
press only. Pool includes AP Photo, Reuters Photo, AP TV, Reuters TV,
Dutch TV and CNN. Pool must arrive no later than 5:00 p.m. For more
information on pool, please contact Christian Chartier at ICTY at
070-416-5343 or Steve Rounds at USIS at 070-310-9440.
Monday, February 8
Editor's Note: Credential applications for all forums of the UNFPA Conference can be obtained
on the UNFPA website - http://www.unfpa.org or by contacting UNFPA at 212-297-5011.
10:00 a.m.
Keynote Address to the UN Population Forum
(4:00 a.m. EST)
Prins Willem-Alexander Hall
The Netherlands Congress Center (NCC)
The Hague
Press Notes:
Open Press. Press should use main entrance and proceed to press check-
in. Pre-Set: 6:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m. Final access 9:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
Conference will be conducted in English with simultaneous translation to
French and Spanish. Lighting and mult is provided. Throw is 120'
Cameras will be escorted for cutaway shots. Press filing center on-site.
The on-site contacts are Stephanie Jones and Corrie Shanahan.
12:00 p.m.
Courtesy call with Prime Minister Kok
(6:00 a.m. EST)
Government House
The Hague
Press Notes:
Open press on arrival and departure. Press should arrive no later than
11:00 a.m. Pool spray at the top of meeting. Press interested in being in
the pool should contact Steve Rounds of USIS at 070-310-9440. Throw is
approximately 20'. The on-site contact is Stephanie Jones.
EDITOR'S NOTE: The First Lady is scheduled to leave the Hague in the evening and arrive to
Washington, D.C. late Monday night. Departure from the Schipol Airport and arrival to
Andrews AFB is closed to the press.
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FINAL*
THE HAGUE, THE NETHERLANDS
LEAD ADVANCE:
PAT HALLEY
CARLTON HOTEL
ROOM 217
011-31-70-381-4901
PHONE
011-31-70-360-0535 FAX
STAFF OFFICE
ROOM 210/211
011-31-70-392-5612
STAFF OFFICE PHONE
011-31-70-392-34960
STAFF OFFICE FAX
011-31-62-220-5567 CELL PHONE
PRESS LEAD
ADVANCE:
STEPHANIE JONES
ROOM 215
011-31-65-151-7778 CELL PHONE
PRESS ADVANCE:
DAN LENOS
ROOM 209
011-31-65-155-4202
CELL PHONE
SITE ADVANCE:
DEHDAN MILLER
ROOM 208
011-31-65-155-4978
CELL PHONE
SITE ADVANCE:
PETER O' 'KEEFE
ROOM 207
011-31-65-342-9984 CELL PHONE
SITE ADVANCE:
GREG HALE
ROOM 212
011-31-62-220-5661 CELL PHONE
RON ADVANCE:
HUMA ABEDIN
ROOM 214
011-31-65-129-0078 CELL PHONE
SCHEDULER:
EVAN RYAN
202/456-6751
PHONE
202/456-5340
FAX
202/483-0383
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PREV RON
Executive One Foxtrot
12:25 pm
WHEELS DOWN Valkenburg Military Air Field
GREETERS:
Ambassador Cynthia Schneider
Dr. Thomas Schneider
Tommie Schneider
Sam Schneider
Ambassador Rudolph Benkink, Chief of Protocol
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00/00/0000
b(7)(E), b(6)
COLLECTION:
Clinton Presidential Records
First Lady's Office
Lissa Muscatine
OA/Box Number: 20082
FOLDER TITLE:
UNFPA Hague Jan 1999 [United Nations Population Fund]
2015-0275-S
re2030
RESTRICTION CODES
Presidential Records Act - |44 U.S.C. 2204(a)]
Freedom of Information Act - 15 U.S.C. 552(b)]
P1 National Security Classified Information [(a)(1) of the PRA]
b(1) National security classified information [(b)(1) of the FOIA]
P2 Relating to the appointment to Federal office [(a)(2) of the PRA]
b(2) Release would disclose internal personnel rules and practices of
P3 Release would violate a Federal statute [(a)(3) of the PRAJ
an agency [(b)(2) of the FOIA]
P4 Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or
b(3) Release would violate a Federal statute |(b)(3) of the FOIA]
financial information |(a)(4) of the PRA]
b(4) Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential or financial
P5 Release would disclose confidential advice between the President
information |(b)(4) of the FOIA]
and his advisors, or between such advisors [a)(5) of the PRA]
b(6) Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
P6 Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
personal privacy [(b)(6) of the FOIA]
personal privacy [(a)(6) of the PRA]
b(7) Release would disclose information compiled for law enforcement
purposes [(b)(7) of the FOIA]
C. Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in donor's deed
b(8) Release would disclose information concerning the regulation of
of gift.
financial institutions [(b)(8) of the FOIA]
PRM. Personal record misfile defined in accordance with 44 U.S.C.
b(9) Release would disclose geological or geophysical information
2201(3).
concerning wells [(b)(9) of the FOIA]
RR. Document will be reviewed upon request.
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Mr. J. Rellum, Senior Protocol Officer
Minister E. Herfkens, Minister of Trade and
Finance - [Tentative]
Ms. Mitra Vaslist, UNFPH
Baron W. Roell van Hazerswoude
12:35 pm
DEPART Valkenburg Military Air Field
EN ROUTE Ambassador's Residence
[drive time: 15 minutes]
[Dola]
(b)(7)e
12:50 pm
ARRIVE Ambassador's Residence
STAFF NOTE: Staff will proceed from Ambassador's Residence to
Carlton Hotel.
1:00 pm-
DOWN TIME
3:30 pm
STAFF NOTE: Staff vans will depart from the Carlton Hotel lobby
at 3:15 pm.
3:40 pm
DEPART Ambassador's Residence
EN ROUTE The Netherlands Congress Center
[drive time: 5 minutes]
(b)(7)e
3:45 pm
ARRIVE The Netherlands Congress Center
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3:50 pm-
DROP-BY Undersecretary of State Frank Loy's
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4:00 pm
Meeting with the Yemen Delegation
Committee Room 6
CLOSED PRESS/WH PHOTO
PARTICIPANTS:
Frank Loy, U.S. Undersecretary of State for Global
Affairs
Julia Taft, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for
Population, Refugees, and Migration
Elizabeth Maguire, Director, Office of Population,
USAID
Peggy Curlin, President, CEDPA (NGO)
Margaret Pollack, Director, Office of Population,
Department of State
H.E. Sofan, Minister of Planning and Development
Mrs. Susuwah, Deputy of Information
Mr. Shaiban, Director of Technical Office
Mr. Abulohoom, Chairman, Islah Charity
Organization
H.E. Dr. A.A. Homarah, Ambassador of the Embassy
of the Republic of Yemen
EVENT GREETERS:
Wouter Meijer, Executive Director, World
Population Foundation of the Netherlands &
Governor
Eveline Herfkens, Minister for Development
Cooperation
Sonia Solomon, Youth Forum participant
Kassem Nassar, Youth Forum participant
4:00 pm-
ADDRESS TO THE NGO AND YOUTH FORUM OF THE
5:00 pm
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON POPULATION AND
DEVELOPMENT + 5
Prins Willem-Alexander Hall
The Netherlands Congress Center
Translation: Simultaneous
Hold: Vermeer Hall 2
Phone: tbd
Fax: tbd
Staff Hold: Committee Room 4
Phone: 070-306-5707
Fax: n/a
OPEN PRESS
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FORMAT:
-The First Lady, accompanied by Mr. Wouter Meijer,
Executive Director, World Population Foundation
of
the Netherlands & Convenor, NGO Forum, is
announced
into the hall and proceeds on stage.
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-Dr. Attiya Inayatullah, President, IPPF, and
Chairperson, NGO and Youth Forums, makes
welcoming remarks.
-Lis Hirano, Youth Forum participant introduces
the video presentation.
-Video on outcomes of NGO and Youth Fora is
played.
-Dr. Mahmoud Fathalla, Rockefeller Foundation,
former Head of World Health Organization Human
Reproduction Program, delivers remarks
and introduces Florence Manguyu.
-Florence Manguyu makes brief remarks and
introduces Ambassador Biegman.
-Ambassador Niek Biegman, Netherlands Ambassador
to NATO and President of the Forum, makes brief
remarks.
-Florence Manguyu introduces Ambassador Anwarul
Chowdhury Permanent Representative and Ambassador
to the United Nations for Bangladesh.
-Ambassador Chowdhury makes brief remarks.
-Florence Manguyu introduces the First Lady.
-The First Lady delivers remarks.
-Dr. Inayatullah reintroduces Dr. Sadik.
-Dr. Sadik makes brief closing remarks.
-Mr. Meijer closes the forum.
-The First Lady and other stage participants
exit stage left.
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PARTICIPANTS: 700-800 guests
5:05 pm-
PHOTO with the NGO/Youth Forum Advisory Board
5:10 pm
Committee Room 6
The Netherlands Congress Center
Translation: Simultaneous
Hold: Vermeer Hall 2
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Phone: tbd
Fax: tbd
Staff Hold: Committee Room 1
Phone: 070-306-5707
Fax: n/a
CLOSED PRESS/WH PHOTO
PARTICIPANTS: 15
5:10 pm-
PHOTO with the Forum Secretariat
5:15 pm
Committee Room 4
The Netherlands Congress Center
Translation: Simultaneous
Hold: Vermeer Hall 2
Phone: tbd
Fax: tbd
Staff Hold: Committee Room 4
Phone: 070-306-5707
Fax: n/a
CLOSED PRESS/WH PHOTO
PARTICIPANTS: 15
5:20 pm
DEPART The Netherlands Congress Center
EN ROUTE International Court Tribunal - Yugoslavia
[drive time: 5 minutes)
[Oola]
(b)(7)e
5:25 pm
ARRIVE International Court Tribunal - Yugoslavia
PAGE 6
GREETER:
Judge Gabrielle McDonald
Deputy Prosecutor Graham Blewitt
Registar Dorothee de Sampayo
PROCEED up one flight of stairs
5:30 pm-
PRIVATE MEETING
5:45 pm
Judge's Chambers
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International Court Tribunal - Yugoslavia
Hold: Room 168
Phone: 070-416-5415
Fax: 070-416-5307
Staff Hold: Room 166
Phone: 070-416-5320
Fax: 070-416-5307
CLOSED PRESS/WH PHOTO
PARTICIPANTS:
The First Lady
Judge Gabrielle McDonald
Jon Cina, Special Assistant to Judge McDonald
Ambassador Cynthia Schneider
Melanne Verveer
Theresa Loar, State Department
Scott Busby, NSC
David Weiner, Special Assistant to Ambassador
Schneider
5:50 pm
PROCEED upstairs to Courtroom
5:55 pm-
PHOTO
6:00 pm
Courtroom
International Court Tribunal - Yugoslavia
Hold: Room 168
Phone: 070-416-5415
Fax: 070-416-5307
Staff Hold: Room 166
Phone: 070-416-5320
Fax: 070-416-5307
POOL PRESS/WH PHOTO
PARTICIPANTS:
The First Lady
Judge Gabrielle McDonald
PAGE 7
6:05 pm
DEPART International Court Tribunal - Yugoslavia
EN ROUTE The Ambassador's Residence
[drive time: 5 minutes]
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STAFF NOTE: All other staff will proceed to the Carlton Hotel via
Staff van.
6:10 pm
ARRIVE Ambassador's Residence
6:15 pm-
DOWN TIME
6:45 pm
6:45 pm-
DROP-BY with Dutch Women Leaders
7:00 pm
Dining Room
Ambassador's Residence
Hold: Bedroom
Phone:
(b)(6)
Fax:
(b)(6)
CLOSED PRESS/WH PHOTO
PARTICIPANTS:
The First Lady
Ambassador Cynthia Schneider
Annemarie Jorritsma-Lebbink, First Deputy Prime
Minister and Minister of Economic Affairs
Els Borst-Eilers, Second Deputy Prime Minister
and Minister of Health, Welfare and Sports
Tineke Netelenbos, Minister of Transport and
Public Works
Eveline Herfkens, Minister for Development
Cooperation
Jeltje Van Nieuwenhoven, President of the Second
Chamber of Parliament
PROCEED upstairs
PROCEED down main staircase and to podium
PAGE 8
7:00 pm-
AMBASSADOR'S RECEPTION FOR AMERICAN DELEGATES
7:25 pm
Living Room
Ambassador's Residence
Hold: Bedroom
Phone:
(b)(6)
Fax:
(b)(6)
[oola]
CLOSED PRESS/WH PHOTO
FORMAT:
-Ambassador Cynthia Schneider makes welcoming
remarks and introduces the First Lady.
-The First Lady makes brief remarks.
020799.PRI
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-Upon conclusion of the First Lady's remarks, a
song is performed by the cast of Ain't
Misbehavin'.
-Upon conclusion of the song, the First Lady is
presented with a CD of the musical from the cast,
and the First Lady takes a photo with the cast.
-The First Lady has the option of working a
ropeline or mixing and mingling before departing
up the staircase.
PARTICIPANTS: 200 guests
7:30 pm
DOWN FOR EVENING
RON
Ambassador's Residence
The Hague, The Netherlands
WEATHER FORECAST FOR THE HAGUE, THE NETHERLANDS: Snow. High 34.
Low 26.
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9:35 am
ARRIVE The Netherlands Congress Center
GREETERS:
Dr. Nafis Sadik, Assistant Secretary General of
the United Nations and Executive Director, UNFPA
Mohammad Nizamuddin, Technical Coordinator of the
Forum
Stirling Scruggs, Forum Coordinator
9:30 am-
PRIVATE MEETING
9:45 am
Committee Room 6
The Netherlands Congress Center
Hold: Vermeer Hall 2
Phone: tbd
Fax: tbd
Staff Hold: Committee Room 4
Phone: 070-306-5707
Fax: n/a
CLOSED PRESS/WH PHOTO
PARTICIPANTS:
The First Lady
Dr. Nafis Sadik
Melanne Verveer
Scott Busby, NSC
Theresa Loar, State Department
Julia Taft, State Department
PROCEED to Vermeer Lounge accompanied by Dr.
Sadik
9:50 am-
MEET & GREET with stage participants
10:00 am
Vermeer Lounge
The Netherlands Congress Center
CLOSED PRESS/WH PHOTO
PARTICIPANTS: 6 stage participants
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10:00 am-
KEYNOTE ADDRESS TO UN POPULATION FORUM
11:40 am
Prins Willem-Alexander Hall
The Netherlands Congress Center
Translation: Simultaneous
Hold: Vermeer Hall 2
Phone: tbd
Fax: tbd
Staff Hold: Committee Room 4
Phone: 070-306-5707
Fax: n/a
OPEN PRESS
FORMAT:
-The First Lady and other participants are
announced into the hall and escorted to their
seats at the front of the hall.
-Seven minute video detailing the 1994 ICPD
Conference in Cairo is played.
-Upon conclusion of the video, the First Lady
and other stage participants are escorted to
their seats on the dais.
-Dr. Nafis Sadik, Assistant Secretary General of
the UN and Executive Director, UNFPA, opens the
proceedings by moving that Ambassador Biegman be
elected chair by acclamation.
-Ambassador Biegman introduces Mayor of the Hague,
Wim Deetman.
-Mayor Deetman makes brief remarks.
-Ambassador Biegman introduces Dr. Els Borst-
Eilers, Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands
and Minister of Health, Welfare, and Sport.
-Deputy Prime Minister Borst makes brief
remarks.
-Ambassador Biegman introduces Deputy Secretary
General of the United Nations Louise Frechette.
-Deputy Secretary General Frechette makes brief
remarks.
PAGE 4
-Dr. Sadik introduces Mrs. Nana Rawlings, First
Lady of Ghana.
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-Mrs. Rawlings makes remarks.
-Dr. Sadik introduces the First Lady.
-The First Lady makes remarks.
-Dr. Sadik makes concluding remarks and
introduces the ASHE Group performers from
Jamaica.
-The First Lady and other stage participants
descend stage left and are escorted to seats in
the front row.
-The ASHE Group performers from Jamaica deliver
a performance depicting the problems of
violence against women.
-Upon conclusion of the performance, the First
Lady exits the hall.
PARTICIPANTS: 1200-2000 guests expected.
11:45 am
DEPART The Netherlands Congress Center
EN ROUTE Government House
[drive time: 10 minutes]
(b)(7)e
[001b]
11:55 am
ARRIVE Government House
GREETER: Prime Minister Wim Kok
PAGE 5
12:00 pm-
COURTESY CALL with Prime Minister Wim Kok
12:30 pm
Prime Minister's Office
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Government House
Hold: 2nd floor waiting room
Phone: n/a
Fax: n/a
Staff Hold: 1st floor waiting room
Phone: 070-356-4906
Fax: n/a
OPEN PRESS (arrival & departure) /POOLSPRAY (meeting)
/WH PHOTO
PARTICIPANTS:
The First Lady
Prime Minister Wim Kok
Ambassador Cynthia Schneider
Melanne Verveer
Scott Busby, NSC
12:35 pm
DEPART Government House
EN ROUTE United States Embassy
[drive time: 1 minute]
[001b]
(b)(7)e
12:40 pm
ARRIVE United States Embassy
INSIDE GREETER:
Bill Pope, Deputy Chief of Mission
PAGE 6
12:45 pm-
PRIVATE MEETING
1:00 pm
Ambassador's Office
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U.S. Embassy
Hold: Room 352
Phone:
(b)(6)
Fax:
(b)(6)
[00lb]
Staff Hold: Room 358
Phone:
(b)(6)
Fax:
(b)(6)
CLOSED PRESS/WH PHOTO
PARTICIPANTS:
The First Lady
Louise Frechette, Deputy Secretary General of the
United Nations
Melanne Verveer
Scott Busby, NSC
Theresa Loar, State Department
1:05 pm-
PRIVATE MEETING
1:20 pm
Ambassador's Office
U.S. Embassy
Hold: Room 352
Phone:
(b)(6)
Fax:
(b)(6)
Staff Hold: Room 358
Phone:
(b)(6)
Fax:
(b)(6)
CLOSED PRESS/WH PHOTO
PARTICIPANTS:
The First Lady
The Honorable Gro Bruntdland, World Health
Organization
Melanne Verveer
Theresa Loar, State Department
Scott Busby, NSC
PAGE 7
1:45 pm
DEPART United States Embassy
EN ROUTE tbd
(b)(7)e
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[0016]
(b)(7)e
2:00 pm-
DOWN TIME
3:25 pm
tbd
DEPART tbd
EN ROUTE The American School
(b)(7)e
3:45 pm
ARRIVE The American School
GREETERS:
Dr. William Gerritz, School Superintendent
Mrs. Jessie Rodell, Director of External Relations
Ronald Falcon, Student Body President, Middle
School
Anna Lisa Bremer Forristall, Elementary School
Representative
3:50 pm-
U.S. EMBASSY FAMILIES DROP-BY
4:10 pm
Cafeteria
The American School
Hold: 6th Grade Classroom
Phone: 070-514-0113 x241
Fax: 070-511-2400
Staff Hold: same
CLOSED PRESS/WH PHOTO
PAGE 8
FORMAT:
-Ambassador Cynthia Schneider makes welcoming
remarks and introduces the First Lady.
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Page 8
-The First Lady makes brief remarks.
-The First Lady has the option of working a
ropeline as she departs.
PARTICIPANTS: 100 guests expected.
SPORTS HALL GREETERS:
Dr. William Gerritz, Superintendent, The American
School of The Hague
Piet Heijn Schoute, Mayor of Wassenar
Dr. Mary Forristal, Chairperson, Executive
Committee, The American School of The Hague
Greg Petersen, Student Body President, The
American School of the Hague
4:15 pm-
DROP-BY The American School
4:25 pm
Sports Hall
The American School
Hold: 6th Grade Classroom
Phone: 070-514-0113 x241
Fax: 070-511-2400
Staff Hold: same
CLOSED PRESS/WH PHOTO
FORMAT:
-Dr. William Gerritz, School Superintendent,
announces the First Lady and other stage
participants onto stage.
-Greg Petersen, Student Body President, makes
welcoming remarks and introduces Ambassador
Cynthia Schneider.
-Ambassador Schneider makes brief remarks and
introduces the First Lady.
-The First Lady makes brief remarks.
PAGE 9
-The First Lady descends the stage, stage-left,
and has the option of working a ropeline left to
right.
-The First Lady departs.
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PARTICIPANTS: 1000 students, parents, faculty
4:40 pm
DEPART The American School
EN ROUTE Schipol International Airport
[drive time: 35 minutes]
Coold]
(b)(7)e
5:15 pm
ARRIVE Schipol International Airport
DEPARTURE GREETERS:
Ambassador Cynthia Schneider
Dr. Thomas Schneider
Tommie Schneider
Sam Schneider
Ambassador Rudolph Benkink, Chief of Protocol
Mr. J. Rellum, Senior Protocol Officer
Minister E. Herfkens, Minister of Trade and
Finance - T
Ms. Mitra Vaslist, UNFPH
Baron W. Roell van Hazerswoude
5:25 pm
WHEELS UP Schipol International Airport
EN ROUTE Andrews Air Force Base
[flight time: 8 hours, 45 minutes, -6 hours]
8:10 pm
WHEELS DOWN Andrews Air Force Base
8:20 pm
DEPART Andrews Air Force Base
EN ROUTE The White House
[drive time: 20 minutes]
PAGE 10
(b)(7)e
8:40 pm
ARRIVE The White House
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WEATHER FORECAST FOR THE HAGUE, THE NETHERLANDS: Mostly sunny.
High 27. Low 12.
WEATHER FORECAST FOR WASHINGTON, DC: Mostly cloudy. High 53.
Low 37.
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UNITED STATES EMBASSY THE HAGUE
USIS PRESS SUMMARY
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1999
FLOTUS
HAAGSCHE COURANT reports that the two managers of "Het Wapen van Delft" have invited the
First Lady to visit their pancake restaurant. Last week. Belgian Queen Paola and her son had dinner
there. The article reads: "Sjaak Bink and his brother Henk hope that an old customer will visit their
restaurant this weekend: Hillary Clinton. The First Lady will be in our country in connection with
the UN Population Conference. The Bink brothers have invited her personally. 'We could also
show her the pictures we took two years ago.' Bill and Hillary Clinton had poffertjes in the
restaurant during their visit in May 1997. The restaurant is now also called the 'Vermeer museum.'
The Clintons had poffertjes with strawberries and whipped cream.
Since the President's visit, these are also called 'Clinton Poffertjes.' The President and the First
Lady were in Holland for the Marshall Plan commemoration and made a spontaneous stop in Delft.
They had something to eat at 't Wapen van Delft; Bill paid with a cheque. Bink was perplexed but
very proud. He received two thank you letters from Washington. He sent some gifts to the White
House. Bink has not yet received a response to the invitation to Hillary Clinton, which he mailed to
the American Embassy. Should the First Lady come to his restaurant this weekend, she won't have
to pay. It will be Bink's treat this weckend. "It would really be nice if she came," he said. "The
pictures are ready. We just have to wait and see."
This morning's Radio News reported that Development Cooperation Minister Herfkens said at a
press conference that she finds the First Lady an inspiring speaker. "If Hillary addresses a group, it
stays with you... She motivates people Radio also expressed frustration about the scarce
information about the First Lady's visit.
DE VOLKSKRANT reports that "Minister Herfkens is very happy about Hillary Clinton's visit to
The Hague. The Fist Lady will address the NGO Forum on Sunday afternoon and she will address
the official conference on Monday. The First Lady is 'extraordinary,' said Herfkens - who is a
Hillary fan. 'She can reach people more than anyone else. She is the best speaker I have ever heard
in my life.' Herfkens hopes that the conference in The Hague will not deal endlessly with moral
issues, as was the case at the Cairo Conference. The conference was then dominated by heated
discussions about, for example, abortion. The Vatican and some Catholic countries joined efforts
with conservative Islamic countries. 'We do not want those debates to be re-opened,' said Herfkens.
'but you cannot prohibit anyone from raising a subject.' She said that one positive point for the
conference in The Hague is the fact that there will not be a concluding document. 'We will therefore
not have these terrible negotiations about paragraphs, sentences, and words."
TROUW carries a profile on the First Lady filed by its Washington correspondent. He notes that
the Washington gossip circuit has a new subject to talk about: the future of the First Lady. He
describes the several options raised in the U.S., the First Lady's high popularity ratings, and media
coverage in the American press. He disagrees with a comment made after the First Lady's
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appearance in Vogue that "She came as Eleanor Roosevelt and departs as Madonna," commenting
that the first part is true but the latter very unlikely. The article also mentions that the First Lady will
be addressing the UN Population Forum in The Hague.
UN FORUM
** HAAGSCHE COURANT carries a scene setter for the Population Forum based on an interview
with Jim Kelman of the U.S. delegation, who explained the importance of the population issue.
** DE VOLKSKRANT reports that Development Cooperation Minister Herfkens said that it is sad
that only four countries met the promises made at the UN Population Conference held in Cairo in
1994. But she was very happy that the Netherlands is one of the four. The efforts made by several
countries are documented in a Population Action International report that mainly focused on the rich
countries. Herfkens said that it was of great importance that the developing countries are carrying
out the Cairo program.
The English page of HET FINANCIEELE DAGBLAD carries a piece entitled "Population Control
Takes More than Cash," reporting on Minister Herfkens' press conference and outlining the set-up
of the Population Forum.
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grote portie, weliswaar, met
na ze het pand verlieten.
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de Amerikaanse president
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dent aan Delft officieus ge-
hington nog twee bedankbrie-
tafel bij het raam. De foto's
yoor-
pen van Delft op de Markt.
langskomen om de foto's te
noemd.
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Herfkens betreurt inzet
rijke landen voor 'Caïro'
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naar de inspanningen van de rijke
Minister Herfkens toonde zich
landen. Die kwamen met slechts
opgetogen met de komst naar Den
DEN HAAG
1,4 miljard dollar over de brug.
Haag van Hillary Clinton. De
Het is 'droevig' dat maar vier lan-
terwijl in Caïro 5,7 miljard was
Amerikaanse first lady spreekt
den zich hebben gehouden aan
toegezegd.
zondagmiddag het NGO Forum
de beloften van de VN-bevol-
'Maar veel belangrijker is dal de
toe en maandagmorgen de officië
kingsconferentie die in 1994
ontwikkelingslanden het pro-
le conferentie. De presidents-
plaatsvond in Caïro. Minister
gramma van Cairo uitvoeren'. zei
vrouw is 'buitengewoon', aldus
Herfkens voor Ontwikkelingssa-
Herfkens Het slotdocument van
Herfkens zelf verklaard Hillary-
menwerking zei dat gisteren in
de VN-bevolkingsconferentie be-
fan. Zij kan meer mensen berei-
Den Haag, op de eerste dag van
tekende volgens haar een 'door-
ken dan wie dan ook. Zij is de
een VN-vergadering waarop de
braak'. Twee voorheen tegenge-
beste spreker die ik in mijn leven
resultaten van 'Caïro' worden ge-
stelde kampen vonden elkaar: de-
heb gehoord.'
toetst.
genen die de nadruk leggen OD het
Herfkens zei te hopen dat in
terugdringen van geboortecijfers,
Den Haag niet opnieuw heftig zal
De minister toonde zich wel op.
en degenen die de rechten van
worden gedebatteerd over morele
getogen ('Ik ben altijd blij met
vrouwen voorop stellen. De laat-
kwesties, zoals vijf jaar geleden in
complimenten') dat Nederland bij
sten hebben in feite hct pleit gc-
Caïro gebeurde. De VN-conferen-
dat groepje van vier hoort, naast
wonnen.
tie werd toen overheerst door felle
Noorwegen, Denemarken en
De vervolgconferentie 'Caïro+5'
discussies over met name abortus.
Zweden. Deze landen hebben
begon gisteren in Den Haag met
Het Vaticaan en enkele katholie-
zich gehouden aan de financiële
een tweedaagse bijeenkomst in de
ke landen sloten een verbond met
verplichtingen die in Caïro wer-
Ridderzaal van ongeveer 250 par-
conservatieve islamitische landen.
den aangegaan. Bovendien heb-
lementariërs uit de hele wereld. In
'Wij willen niet dat die debatten
ben ZC reproduktieve gezond-
het weekeinde wordt in het Con-
worden heropend', zei de minis-
heid' (alle zorg die met voortplan-
gresccntrum het NGO Forum
ter. 'Maar je kunt niemand verbie-
ting te maken heeft) een belangrij-
gehouden, waar honderden nict-
den dingen aan te kaarten.' Gun-
ke plaats gegeven in hun steun
gouvernementele organisaties
stig VOOI een goed verloop noem-
aan ontwikkelingslanden.
hun standpunten en projecten
de zij dat in Den Haag, anders dan
De positieve beoordeling van
presenteren. Maandag begint daar
in Caïro, geen slottekst hoeft te
Nederland en de Scandinavische
de officiële conferentie, met vertc-
worden aangenomen. 'Dus we
landen staat in een rapport van
genwoordigers van 180 regerin-
krijgen geen afschuwelijke onder-
Population Action International
gen. De vergadering duurt vijf da-
handelingen over alinea's. zinnen
(PAI). De organisatie keek vooral
gen.
en woordjes.'
Noord-lerse groepjes
Aziatische zeerovers
bewapenen zich
Reuters
steeds gewelddadiger
BELFAST
Katholieke en protestantse splin-
Van onze correspondent
twaalf keer in die van India en
tergroeperingen in Noord-lerland
Jan van der Putten
Lien keer in die van Maleisie.
zijn druk bezig zich te bewapenen.
Uit Bangladesh, Somalië, Brazi-
De protestantse UVF zou zijn wa-
PEKING
lië en Ecuador werden elk ne-
penarsenaal hebben uitgebreid
De zecroverij in dc Oost-Aziati-
gen gevallen gemeld. Vorig jaar
met antitankgeschut. Katholieke
sche wateren neemt steeds
kregen 138 schepen piraten aan
splintergroepen vullen hun voor-
bloediger vormen аап. Afgelo-
bourd, elf werden er onder vuur
raden ook aan.
genomen en vijftien gekaapt.
De IRA meldde donderdag dat
pen jaar zijn 67 zeclieden door
piraten vermoord. China treedt
Olietankers genoten speciale
dissidente extremisten wapens on
volgens het Internationale Zee-
belangstelling. De rovers ver-
munitie hebben gestolen uit het
tearn
de
moordden of knevelden de be-
IRA-arsenaal. De wapens zijn. zo
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Hillary Rodham Clinton
De 'first' voetveeg van Amerika
Profiel
Bert van Panhuis
ceft ze hem vergeven? Zal ze
hand in de zijne aangar zich niet le la-
her hem ooir vergeven? Zal ze
ocn vloeren door verhalen over het
ber hem nooit vergeven? Gaat ze
vreemdgaan van Bill Want dat is on-
ce zijaer tijd van hero scheiden?
derhand wel duidelijk, ze zijn samen
Kan are niet zonder bem? Zou hij
net politieke avontuur aangegaan en
zonder haar not iers zijn 85WOP
ze zullen samen door de diepste daten
den? Begine ze eind volgend jaar
years, Zijn politicke erfenis is OOK de
voor zichzelf? or keert ze in janu-
hare.
ari 2001 Washington DC de rug
Van de president words met enige
toe om. als her even kan. er nooit
bewondering gezegd dat b.j zich in
meer terug be keren? Kortom: was
die slopende alzettingsdrama op de
gaat er om in bet boofd van
been weet te houden door zijn leven
Hillary Rodham Clinton?
te compartimeren, Door zich at te
sluiten. te down alsof bepaaide zaken
Washington, stad van rodde) en ach
niet bestaan en door zicn of de also
terklap, van overspel en dubbelspel,
Lijkse feiten te werpen. Datzelfde
beeft or een nieuw burreitatelge-
geldt voor hair. Hillary Clinton will
spreksonderwerp bij: de toekomst
en deel van haar Jeven buiten de
van de first ludy, Want dat ze als dan
openbarheid houden. Ten keste van
52-Jarige over twee jaar met een brej.
haar imago demoods.
hous op de veranda in Little Rock
Ze doet wat als haar taak als presi-
gaat zitten schommelstoelen gast er
dentsvrous beschouwe. En is is nier
bij niemand in Maarwat dan well
alleen heel idmologisch in hear opvet-
Een functie in de internationale poli.
tingen. ze is ook uiterst plichtsge
tiek wellicht. De post van minister
DOUW. 7a heaft ean opdracht voor de
van buitenlandse zaken in een
it samenieving, de Amerikaanse in
Democracische regering zit er niet in.
het bijzonder. Dat moniveert hear tot
Det zomin als bet
bet opdraven op tal van nationale en
schap. Een was lossige functie in de
internationale fora. Za brenge haar
marge van de policiek misschien. cen
boodschap' met verve. Em enkele
goodwill-ambassadent?
knee kan ze het niet nalaten daar cen
Hillary Clinton gast de VN-bevol.
boowardig element in be viechren.
kingsconferencie in Den Haag too
Zoals bij de presentatie van de preven-
spreken. Dat scon opdrachten zou
tiecampagne voor darmkanker vorig
haar ook in de toekomst wel Liggen
najaar. .U kunt mij volgen naar de
of ambieers ze de binnenlandse poli-
grote zaal". zet ze tegen de genodig-
tiek? in november 2000 kome de andi-
den. Om er met een zuinis lachje aan
tionele Democratische
toe te viegen: ..En de media kunnen
voor de staat New York YTI). de zetel
vext het onderzoek naar de groene
dic coit werd trans door Robert
zaal"
Kennedy en DU door Daniel Patrick
Hillary Clinton heeft zich in her be
Moynihan. Wis net neeft aan-
gin van haar Witte-Hulsjaren wel eens
gestoken en met welke (bij)bedoelin-
vergeleken met Eleanor Roosevelt lets
gan is niet duidelijk, maar ineens
wat pretentieus werd gevenden. Maar
was het geruche daar. Hillary wil sena-
beide vrouwen hebben oversenkom-
for voor New York worden.
sten. Het is niet alleen de ontrouwe
Opinieprilingen hebben baar al uitge
echtgenoot. mair ook de frustratte
mepen tot favoriet: se tou de gedood-
om met her tweede plan genoegen te
verfde Republikeinse rival burge-
moeten namen. Het 'eigen' publicke
meester Rudy Gluliani van New York
leven van Eleanor Roosevelt begon pas
dik verslain. Oh nee, seen sprake vani
na de dood van baar man. En het 'ei-
Ze will als de termijo van Bill Clinton
gen leven' van Hillary Rodham
is afgelopen nooit meer ints met
Clinton begint mogelijk pas a jann.
Washington te maken hebben! roc.
ari 2001. AI claim niee als echigenore
pen lieden die als ingewijd worden be
van. Want over de stant van haar nu.
schouwd of die richzelf dat etiket
welijk zwijgt ze als bet graf. Niemand
hebben opgeplake
die het waage haar daar vragen over a
De politieke clite van de
stellen. Hct komt op een dodelijke
Anxerikaanse boofdstad heeft haar ei-
blik be staan. Nicttemin staat
gen regels en discipline. Toen de
Washington' bij tijd cn wijle te kwij-
Clintons in Januari 1993 vanuit bet
len bij het onderwerp Vriender.'
'dorpse' Little Rock naar Washington
gren namen - melden dat or cen ijzi-
kwamen brachten ze enthousiasme
ge sfeer in de privé-vertrekken hange,
ROTO PATTERIK WIGGERS
mee en ambitie. maar ook arrogantie.
dat zwijgend wordt gegeten. Oud.se.
En in de salons van Georgemen en de
nator Date Bumpers. een guede vriend
elingswet beongt
Her is een politick taboe om een general
chique bultenwijken stand het vast
van de familie. liet onlangs doorsche-
to mijn ogen sen
pardon not stellen. Ik ben bang dat we
dat str) moest een lesje in nederig.
meren dat her gezin uit elkaar Lgr.
sisen elementaire
door de friten dideten worden ingehaald,
heid worden geleerd. Zij net 20 good
Niemand weet et her fine van.
ingsstrar engrege
dat we earn govenfronteesd moreten wor
als nij. Hillary mocht dan thuis een
Hillary houdt haar geverlsleven
wenrechnenverdra-
den met groepen illegalen die 's winters
gevierde advocate zijn, in de hoold-
verborgen achter de facade van de
rask kunnen ms-
over strast swerven, wordat de ojd voor
stad was to stechts een huurder voor
first lady die door dik 5 dun haar
risico's voor de
20'n debat njp is."
acht jaar'. Te zijner tijd voor haar een
man steunt Met de onvermijdelijke
alleen in noodge-
De passe coalitie vorget in haar egen
ander Home durit ze: je Klest een
kritick dat ze daarmee de poside van
org openstelt voor
BCA ulterst kortzichtig beleid, Dat geldt
Clinton en je krijgt de tweede presi-
de VIOUW in de samenieving under.
er op die manier
ook VOOT startssecretaris Cohen wiens De
dent er bij. Niet alleen sinds het begin
mijnt "Ecrste voetvees'. is ze al sens
worbeeld open the
puratie als bekwaam en integer bestuur.
van haar first lady-schap, maar ook
genoemd door Maureen Dowd. oa
der hem voaruitsnelde bij zijn antreden
tinds bet bekend worden wan de affai-
lumniste van de New York Times.
reral pardon voor
De problemen zijn een gevolg van de
relewinsky is Hillary nadrukkelijk
Dezelfde die eind vorig jaar onbarm
pien. Je kunt at
straicke financièle koers van paars.
aanwezig in het Amerikaanse politie-
hartig vastrelde nadat de first lady
. drie. vier of visit
Vanwege net financièle beleid zijn de Ban:
ke wereldje. Ze was een van de cersten
met glamourfoto's in de Vogue had
is gren criminels
talken verwache asielzoekers lounstmatig
om haar man vaor de theamers's -
gestran: to kwam als Eleanor
I zijn levensonder.
lang gehouden, Het gevolg be weinig op-
verdedigen tegen die befaarnde 'enor-
Roosevelt en ze gaat als Madonna Dat
orzien zonder een
vangplaarsen en te weinig capadreit bij
me rechtse samenzwering Net mals
certe is wast. dat lastste is onwair
active voorzienin-
de immigratic en naturalisatiedienst, die
2e in her voortaar van 1992 met haar
2/5/99 Het Finan weele Dayblad (Pio)
USIS AMERICAN EMB
Earlier this week, 27 congress was
think it will become really Dig here.'
society. crdey. During his speech, Deetman said TV, alcohol and drugs were fuelling the problem
The
held on Feng Shui at the ING Bank
she said. The Dutch are too level-
PHOTO MKFAEL KOCREN/HH
in Amsterdam. It was attended by
headed.'
HEADLINES
TV revelations
Population control takes more than cash
The news that the jumbo jet which
BY A STATE REPORTER
several thousand experts from de-
growth of global population,' Her-
according to the UNFPA report.
THE HAGUE - Only the Nether-
veloped and developing countries
fkens said. Women are now em-
The global average fertifity rate
crashed in Amsterdam six years ngo
FAX
was carrying dangerous chemicals
lands and the Nordic countries have
are expected to attend The Hague
powered. The purpose of the Hague
stands at 2.7 births per woman,
and gases, despite official denials,
so far reached the agreed target of
Forum. They will review progress
Forum is to see to it that countries
down from five births in the early
has boosted TV news audiences
spending 4% of their development
since the landmark Cairo agree.
provide access to comprehensive re.
1950s.
hugely. On Wednesday, political
aid budget on reproductive health
ment on population, reproductive
productive and sexual health care.'
The Hague Forum will also focus
programme Den Hang Vandaag at-
programmes, Dutch aid minister
health and womens' rights in 1994
Holland was the sixth largest
on the AIDS problem, which is now
tracted an audience of 910,000 with
Evelyn Herfkens said yesterday.
where the 4% quota was agreed.
source of development aid funds
the number one killer disease in the
its coverage of the Bijlmermeer
Herfkens was speaking at a press
A non-governmental meeting
worldwide in 1997, donating more
world. It has already infected 33.4
12
crash inquiry - equivalent to 25%
conference ahead of next week's
and a youth forum will take place
than $2.9 bn in foreign assistance.
million people, 14 million of whom
of the total viewing public. The
United Nations forum on popula-
over the weekend and the Dutch
This equates to 0.79% of gross na-
have died. More people have died
70
show is usually watched by just
tion, reproductive health and wo-
parliament is hosting a gathering for
tional product. The country, with
from AIDS than from malaria in the
380,000 people.
men's rights.
MPs today.
only 6million people, is thus one of
developing world. And, the fastest
'But development aid is not the
The Hague Forum is part of a se-
the few in the world meeting the UN
growing infection rate is among Af-
only solution,' Herfkens said. Reli-
ries of meetings known as 'Cairo
target of allocating 0.7% of GNP to
rican women under the age of 25.
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Working from home
gious leaders were also important.
plus five' which cubninates in a spe-
development aid.
Herfkens said the main problem
Only 33% of the companies which
They had a role to play in allowing
cial session of the United Nations
The US has refused to allocate
was not poverty, but priorities. She
use home workers actually organise
individual women and men to de-
general assembly in late June. Poli-
funds to the reproductive health
quoted Mary Robinson, former
proper work places for these staff,
termine the size and spacing of their
cy will then be determined to fur-
programme, largely on the grounds
president of Ireland and now the
according to market research group
families themselves, she said.
ther implement the UN population
that China - which enforces birth
UN's high commissioner on human
Heliview. An estimated 200,000
Women are the key to the whole
fund's (UNFPA) 20-year Pro-
through abortion- is one of
rights in Geneva, who firmly be-
people — 2.6% of the working pop-
population growth problem. They
gramme of Action agreed in Cairo.
the 179 signatories to the pact.
lieves that, "Women have a funda-
ulation - in Holland work from
want and need information about
Hillary Chinton. wife of the US pres-
The world's population now
mental right to enjoy sex'.
home, Heliview said. Two years
when and how to have children.
ident and an acknowledged cham-
stands at 5.9 billion, and is growing
Poverty was no excuse for poor
ago, the figure was only 1%.
They do not want 20 children or to
pion of women's rights, is to be the
at the rate of 1.3% a year for an an-
reproductive health care, Herfkens
start a family when they are 15 ye-
keynote speaker on Monday.
nual net addition of 78 million peo-
said. Governments in developing
Gun law criticised
are old,' the minister said.
"The latest UNFPA world popula-
ple. It is forecast to be in the range
countries had to get their priorities
Nearly 100 health ministers and
tion report shows a flattening of the
of 7.3 billion 10 10.7 billion in 2050,
right.
05-02-99
A Labour party initiative to give po.
lice more powers to check for illegal
weapons has been criticised by jus-
tice minister Benk Korthals. The pri-
ALPHABET SOUP
vate members bill, which will be pre-
sented 10 parliament in March,
would allow police to stop and
search cars for weapons. Korthals
said his ministry was already looking
Democrats ended up in opposition
after the 1994 Datch elections. This
into the situation of gun control, and
time round, Labour and the Liberals
that this bill tonk an 'easy way out'.
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IRI 1999
2/4/99
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BEVOLKINGSCONFERENTIE IN DEN HAAG
BRIEV
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Den Haag de VN-
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het
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ging over h
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Vijf jaar geleden werd in
gen van de.
in
Kairo de eerste
de noodzaa
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der niet uiti
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conferentie over 'het
wel een bi
en
beheersen van de
'De drukte
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bevolkingsgroei'
zondheidso
at-
tolerabel
91
gehouden. Zo'n 180
Zij weet mi
in.
landen maken in het
sinds de pli
Congresgebouw de
bouwkundy
levergeefs
balans op.
verhoogde
ging op Ypt
DOOR SACHA KESTER
plaats van
A4 en A13,
en
Den Haag ..Ik ben altijd al
Rijswijkse
geinteresscerd geweest in de
rings wordt
bevolkingsproblematiek", vcr-
gehouden 12
telt Jim Kelman, hould van de
Milieu El
Amerikaanse delegatie op de
(MER). Alle
VN-hevolkingsconferentie die
FOTD JACQUES ZORGMAR
Jucht niet so
volgende week in Den Haag
En zeg nu
'Er is niets belangrijker dan het beheersen van de
wordt gehouden. ..En sinds de
len de vervu
oudste van mijo twee dochters
groei van de mensheid', meent Kelman.
houden. Int
in de pubertijd zit, heeft het
luwte achte
voortplantingsvraagstuk: meer
len (lees: op
len hoeveel er uiteindelijk naar
meer zij in staat is on) haur ei-
dan mijn professionele interes-
een verhoog
hel project gast. Vorig jaar be.
gen beslissingen te nemen.
se", grapt hij.
schadelijke
paalde het Congres dat de VS
Vrouwen met een opleiding.
Vijl jaar geleden werd in Kairo
ten in plaat
385 van de toegezegde 504 mil-
de eerste VN-conferentie over
hoe laag ook, zijn eerder ge.
door de wind
joen dollar zou kunnen bijdra-
neigd na te denken of en hue.
bied.
'het behcersen van de groei van
gen".
veel kinderen ze willen".
Mevrouw L
de wereldbevolking' gehouden.
Gcvoelig
Speciale aandacht is or op de
De delegatie van Kelman, en die
verontreinig
conferentie in Den Hang voor
van zo'n 180 andere landen, zal
gezondheids
Wie praat over het reminen van
adolescenten. jongeren in de
vanaf maandag bekijken wat er
ger tolerabel
de bevolkingsgroei, moet ook
pubertijd. We heliben bijna
woningbouv
tot nu tue is terechtgekomen
onderwerpen als anti-conceptie
een miljard jonge volwassenen
plaats Ypent
van alle ambitieuze plannen die
en abortus aanroeren. en dat
op deze wereld. en dat is veel
alleen de AI:
toen zijn gemaakt. We moeten
ligt bij sommige landen erg BA-
meer dan vijf jaar geleden. Ado-
dere randwej
precies weten waar we staan en
voelig. In Kairo werd dan ook
lescenten staan in een groot
de Ad en è
we moeten thuiskomen met
dagenlang gediscussieerd over
deel van de wereld aan de voor.
nieuwe ideeën voor de komende
evenzo grote
iedere punt en komma in de pa-
avond van een huwelijk en hot
intolerabeles
jaren", aldus Kelman.
ragraal over abortus in het slot.
starten van een eigen gezin.
Up het oges
Mit
Als er ergens weinig van is te.
document. ..lets dergelijks how
Dus juist deze groep moet een
statistlek de
rechtgekomen, dan is het wel
ven we hier niet te verwach-
doelgroep zijn voor ONS plan
concentraties
het financieren van het Kairo-
ten". voorspelt Kelman. Daar
van actie", legt Kelman uit.
per huis op Y/
programma. Met name de Vere-
zijn de delegaties toen uitgeko-
nigde Staten zün tekort gescho-
men, nu evalueren WC de stand
Mis
zinnen, twee
binnenplaats
ten met bet overmaken van de
van zaken. Wel bekijken We of
Wat Kelman betreft is deze con-
lijk ruim 101
toegezegde dollars. We hopen
or meer gedaan kan worden om
ferentie van groot belang VOUR
hourd, result
dit to verbeteren", knikt Kel-
de doelstellingen to bereiken".
de toekomst van de mens. We
tal auto's ye
man Er zijn veel kapere op de
is de empo-
méeten hier kritisch naar kij-
helft pakt &
kust die vechten om het schaar-
worment of women'. Kelman:
ken en er over nadenken want
werk: 7.500
se belastinggeld dat kan wor-
Want vrouwenemancipatie is
anders gaat het mis. Vandaag
lengte VAM 61
den uitgegeven. En or is na-
de sleutel tot een succesvolle
de dag is er niets belungrijker
dit een file
tuurlijk een politieke factor; het
bevolkingspolitiek. Hoe langer
dan hel beheersen van de groei
guat tijdens
18 any het Congres oin te bepa-
sen meisje naar school gast. how
van de mensheid".
achiend van
05-Feb-99 14:23
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MEMORANDUM
TO:
Toby Graff
FROM:
Stephanie Jones
DATE:
February 5, 1999
RE:
Advisory Information
Hi, Toby - here is additional information for the advisory and FYI:
Sunday, February 7, 1999
NGO FORUM
We have pushed the Final Access time back to 1:30 -2:30 p.m.
Add Joke Van Kampen as an on-site contact in addition to me
The website information that was given me for registration does not seem to be available
- at least I cannot access it through my internet connection. The telephone number for
UNFPA in New York is (212) 297-5011. On-site registration is also available, although
the conference organizers are discouraging it.
VISIT TO ICTY COURTROOM
As we discussed, the photo op in the ICTY Courtroom will be pool press. Per agreement,
the Court Press Office will invite the following outlets to be in the pool:
AP-Photo
Reuters-Photo
Local Newspaper Photographer
AP-TV
Reuters-TV
Dutch TV
CNN
Monday, February 8, 1999
KEYNOTE ADDRESS TO UN POPULATION FORUM
Add Corrie Shanahan as an on-site contact in addition to me
05-Feb-99 14:23
From-Amarican Ambassy
+31-70-
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The Trip of The First Lady
To The Hague, The Netherlands
February 6-8, 1999
Fax Cover Sheet
TO: TOBY
FROM:
Pat Halley
Stephanie Jones
Greg Hale
Dehdan Miller
Peter O'Keefe
Dan Lenos
Huma Abedin
PAGES (incl. cover): 2
MESSAGE: Call Good morning Toby!
w/any questions
04-Feb-99 19:55
From-Amarican Ambassy
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P.01
F-061
MEMORANDUM
TO:
Toby Graff
FROM:
Stephanie Jones
DATE:
February 4, 1999
RE:
Advisory Information
Toby - here is the information I have so far for the advisory. I will send the rest
as it's available. All of the events listed have some press component; all events
are Closed Press.
Sunday, February 7, 1999
4:00 pm -
NGO FORUM
5:25 pm
Prins Willern-Alexander Hall
Netherlands Congress Center
On-site Contact: Stephanie Jones
Open Press
Press Entrance - Main entrance
Press Parking - General parking garage
Satellite Parking - NA
Pre-set: 6:00 a.m. - 7:00 a.m.
Final Access: 9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Translation - simultaneous into French and Spanish
Multbox - available at camera position and in press seating area
and French only
Throw - 120'
No cutaway - cameras will be escorted for cutaway shots
5:30 pm -
PRIVATE MEETING WITH JUDGE GABRIELLE MCDO
5:45 pm
Judge's Chambers
Churchillplein 1 2517 JW
International Criminal Tribunal on the Former Yugoslavia
Closed Press Arrival/Departure
VISIT TO ICDY COURTROOM
Courtroom
Pool Press
On-site Contact: Stephanie Jones
04-Feb-99 19:56
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Monday, February 8, 1999
10:00 am -
KEYNOTE ADDRESS TO UN POPULATION FORUM
11:40 am
Prins Willem-Alexander Hall
Netherlands Congress Center
On-site Contact: Stephanie Jones
Open Press
Press Entrance - - Main entrance
Press Parking - - General parking garage
Satellite Parking - NA
Pre-set: 6:00 a.m. - 7:00 a.m.
Final Access: 9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Translation - - simultaneous into French and Spanish
Multbox - - available at camera position and in press seating area
and French only
Throw - 120'
No cutaway - cameras will be escorted for cutaway shots
12:00 pm -
Courtesy Call with Prime Minister Kok
12:30 pm
Government House
Open Press Arrival/Departure
Pool Spray at Top of Meeting
Press Entrance - - Main entrance
Press Parking - TBD
Satellite Parking - NA
Pre-set: TBD
Final Access: 11:00 a.m. (T)
Throw - 20'
Cutaway position for pool
04-Feb-99 18:42
From-Amarican Ambassy
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The Trip of The First Lady
To The Hague, The Netherlands
February 6-8, 1999
Fax Cover Sheet
TO: TOBY
FROM:
Pat Halley
Stephanie Jones
Chartier
Christian
ICTY 070-416- 5343
Greg Hale
Dehdan Miller
Peter O'Keefe
Dan Lenos
Huma Abedin
by Spm
PAGES (incl. cover): 6
MESSAGE: FYI
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From-Amarican Ambassy
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UNITED STATES EMBASSY THE HAGUE
USIS PRESS TRANSLATION
Following is a translation of an article which appeared in the 2/4/99 edition of Troun
"CLINTON-PANCAKES" TO LURE HILLARY TO DELFT.
The recipe is simple: a portion pancakes with cream, served with strawberries and
chorries. "Clinton-pancakes" is what they are called unofficially since the visit of
President Clinton to Delft. In May 1997, Bill and Hillary treated themselves in "I W
van Delft." The owner of the restaurant, Bink. hopes that Hillary will revisit the
restaurant during her visit to The Hague this weekend.
At the time, the presidential couple was in the Netherlands for the Marshall Plan
Commemoration and spontaneously visited Delft. They decided to eat something at
Wapen van Delft" restaurant. Bill paid with a check. For a long time afterwards, Bi
who was overwhelmed by this visit, had a lot of customers who ordered the "Clintor
pancakes." Furthermore, he received a thank you note from the White House.
Now that Hillary Clinton is coming to the Netherlands this weekend for the World
Population Conference, Bink has sent her a personal invitation. He has not yet recei
an answer to his letter to the American Embassy in The Hague, but if the First Lady
show up this weekend, she will not have to pay. This time the treat is on Bink.
04-Feb-99 18:43
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FAX NO.: + 31 70 3658837
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From 2/4/99
pagina 2
deKier
Varken als bron
'Clinton-poffertjes'
van geestelijk
moeten Hillary
voedsel
naar Delft lokken
Het varken is een martelaar. of
Het recept is simpel: een portie
anders een charmeur. In elk ge
poffertjes met slagroom, gegar-
val heeft het dier definitief een
neerð met een aaneal aardbeien
plaatsje gekregen in de harten
en kersen. 'Clinton-poffertjes'
van vele mensen. Het leed van
worden ze sinds net bezoek van
zijn meestal reeds gesneuvelde
president Clinton aan Delft offi-
voorgangers bracht het varken
cieus genoemd. in mei '97 deden
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From-Amarican Ambassy
+31-70-
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The Trip of The First Lady
To The Hague, The Netherlands
February 6-8, 1999
Fax Cover Sheet
TO: TOBY
FROM:
Pat Halley
Stephanie Jones
Greg Hale
Dehdan Miller
Peter O'Keefe
Dan Lenos
Huma Abedin
PAGES (incl. cover): 6
MESSAGE: FYI
04-Feb-99 18:44
From-Amarican Ambassy
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UNITED STATES EMBASSY THE HAGUE
USIS PRESS TRANSLATION
Following is a translation of an article which appeared in the 2/4/99 edition of Troun
"CLINTON-PANCAKES" TO LURE HILLARY TO DELFT.
The recipe is simple: a portion pancakes with cream, served with strawberries and
chorries. "Clinton-pancakes" is what they are called unofficially since the visit of
President Clinton to Delft. In May 1997, Bill and Hillary treated themselves in "!W
van Delft." The owner of the restaurant. Bink, hopes that Hillary will revisit the
restaurant during her visit to The Hague this weekend.
At the time, the presidential couple was in the Netherlands for the Marshall Plan
Commemoration and spontaneously visited Delft. They decided to eat something at
Wapen van Delft" restaurant. Bill paid with a check. For a long time afterwards, B
who was overwhelmed by this visit, had a lot of customers who ordered the "Clintor
pancakes." Furthermore, he received a thank you note from the White House.
Now that Hillary Clinton is coming to the Netherlands this weekend for the World
Population Conference, Bink has sent her a personal invitation. He has not yet recei
an answer to his letter to the American Embassy in The Hague, but if the First Lady
show up this weekend, she will not have to pay. This time the treat is on Bink.
04-Feb-99 18:45
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FROM: USIS AMERICAN EMB
FAX NO.: 31 70 3658837
04-02-99
From
2/4/99
pagina 2
deKier
Varken als bron
'Clinton-poffertjes'
van geestelijk
moeten Hillary
voedsel
naar Delft lokken
Het varken is een martelaar. of
Het recept is simpel: een portie
anders een charmeur. in elk ge
poffertjes met slagroom. gegar-
val beeft het dier definitief een
neerd met een aantal aardbeien
plaarsje gekregen in de harten
en karsen. 'Clinton-poffertjes'
van vele mensen. Het leed van
worden ze sinds bet bezoek van
zijn meestal reeds gesneuvelde
president Clinton aan Delit offi-
voorgangers bracht bet varken
cieus genoemd. In mei '97 deden
de marele steun van schrijvers
Bill en Hillary zich in 't Wapen
als J. Voskuil en Koos van Zome-
van Delft tegoed aan dit oertiot
ren. Gevolgd door de cabarerier
landse gerecht. Eigenaar Bink
Youp van C Hek legden zij net
heopt dat Hillary bij haar bezoek
dier langs de meetlat van welzíjn
aan Den Haag. komend weekein-
en diervriendeljjkheid om de in-
de. opnieuw even langskomt.
censieve veehouderij san te kla-
Het presidentiéle paar was des-
gen.
tijds in Nederland voor de Mars-
Zes Amsterdamse kunstenaars
hall-herdenking en bracht daar-
zetten nu op uimodiging van de
bij spontaan een bezoek aan
stichting Kunststation een vol.
Delft. Ze besioten war re eten bij
gende stap naar het eerherstel
's Wapen van Delft: Bill betaalde
van her warken. Her dier blijkt de
met een cheque. De overdonder.
muze te zijn voor een aantal ver-
de Bink had nog lang daama flin-
bluffende suggesties. waarvoor
ke klandizie aan mensen die
de kunstenaars morgen de aftrap
Clinton-pofferries bestelden. Bo-
geven in net Brabantse Venhorst,
vendien kreeg hij uit Washing-
het epícentrum van de varkens-
ton nog een bedankbrief.
FOTO PETTERIK WIGGERS
pestepidemie die precies twee
Nu Hillary Clinton dit weekein-
working.
jaar geleden uitbrak
de naar Nederland komt in ver-
Zo staat de kunstenaar Joop
band met een VN-Devolkingscon-
Vaissier ean International var-
ferentie, heeft Bink haar ditroaal
kensmuseum' voor ogen. een in-
zelf uitgenodigd. Op zijn brief
men kwijrraakte worde offi-
scitunt met als thema: wat is de
naar de Amerikaanse ambassade
(eel volgende week woensdag
functie en de status van het var-
kreeg hij nog geen antwoord.
pgericht. Maar via fondsenwer.
ken binnen de huidige culturop-
maar als de presidentsvrouw dir
ing zijn er onderrussen al beel
vardingen', Hainer Holtappels
weekeinde aanschuift. hoeft ze
vat roistoelen en gehoorappara-
overweegt een monument voor
niet weer af te rekenen. Deze
en naar Gaza getransporteerd.
net varken en zal daarvoor on-
keer will Bink trakreren.
Net bijzondere is dat de organi-
derzoeken 'wie' -igenlijk 'wat'
04-Feb-99 18:45
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FAX NO.: + 31 70 3658837
04-02-99
FROM: USIS AMERICAN EMB
UNITED STATES EMBASSY THE HAGUE
USIS PRESS TRANSLATION
Following is a translation of an article which appeared in the 2/3/99 edition of De
Telegraaf.
HILLARY WANTS A PSYCHIATRIST FOR CLINTON
Hillary Clinton wants her husband to call in the help of a psychiatrist. Hillary is very
worried about the present emotional condition of the President. In public, Clinton ha
surprising quality of being able to smile and look good-humoured, but in private he is
according to insiders, an emotional wreck.
He has only now seen what the Lewinsky-scandal has done to his family. "Bill is a
broken man," according to a reliable source close 10 the family. "He even collapsed
short while ago. Privately be fell into a deep depression. For days Hillary has not sp
a word to him and his daughter Chelsea is still finding it difficult to forgive him.
"When he wanted to give her advice on certain matters at school, Chelsea exploded
cried: *I don't need your advice. You have ruined everything for everybody." Bill ha
collapsed under all this stress," according to a friend. "He burst out in tears after at
with Hillary. Hillary was also crying."
This convinced Hillary that her husband is going through the most difficult period of
life. She wants a psychiatrist to help him through this. Hillary asked a friend who is
psychiatrist to help Bill. This psychiatrist includes members of Congress in his list
patients. Despite her anger over Bill's behavior, Hillary is still concerned about her
husband.
Self-pity
For the outside world, Clinton continues to play the role of the man who can cope
this all, and who is not worried about the Lewinsky case. But his former assistant a
good friend Dick Morris, who is still in contact with the White House, says: "Those
have talked to him recently. say that he is a broken man. In the past, when Bill had
problems. he could not sleep and he would walk through the White House all night
calling friends and asking their advice. Furiously. he would say that he would take
revenge on his enemies. This time he is reacting differently. The anger has faded.
feels very lonely and is consumed with self-pity."
04-Feb-99 18:45
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FROM: USIS AMERICAN EMB
Another friend of Clinton's, Dale Bumpers, says: "The relationship between husband
wife and daughter is under severe stress, if it is not already broken. Bill was disappoi
when Chelsea decided not to attend the State of the Union address. "I have lost my
daughter," he said. "I feel so guilty because I have hurt Chelsea."
Caption: In public, Clinton has the surprising quality of being able to smile and look
good-humoured, but in private he is, a wreck according to insiders. The relationship
between husband. wife and daughter has come under severe stress.
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70
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04-02-99
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THE HAGUE, HOLLAND
SCHEDULER:
EVAN RYAN
202/456-6751 PHONE
202/456-5340 FAX
202/483-0383 HOME
WHCA PAGER #4223
PREV RON
Ambassador's Residence
3:40 pm
DEPART Ambassador's Residence
EN ROUTE The Congress Center
3:45 pm
ARRIVE The Congress Center
3:50 pm-
DROP-BY Frank Loy's Meeting with the Yemen
Delegation
Meeting Room 6
CLOSED PRESS/WH PHOTO
PARTICIPANTS:
CONTACT:
GREETERS:
Wouter Meijer
Maryann H
....
Joke Van Kampem
4:00 pm-
ADDRESS TO THE NGO FORUM
tbd
Auditorium
The Congress Center
Translation: Simultaneous
Hold:
Phone:
Fax:
Staff Hold:
Phone:
Fax:
OPEN PRESS
FORMAT:
-Youth Forum speaker
-Video (youth forum)
-Dr. Fatella
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-Mrs. Florence Mongrave - Kenya
-Ambassador Beekman
-Mrs. Florence Mongrave
-Ambassador Chaudry
-Mrs. Florence Mongrave
PARTICIPANTS: 700-800 guests
CONTACT:
tbd
PHOTO with the NGO Advisory Council
Meeting Room 6
PARTICIPANTS: 15
tbd
PHOTO with the Youth Advisory Council
Meeting Room 6
PARTICIPANTS: 15
5:15 pm
DEPART The Congress Center
EN ROUTE Aegon Building - ICTY
[drive time: 5 minutes/30 seconds]
tbd
PRIVATE MEETING
Aegon Building
ICTY
Hold:
Phone:
Fax:
Staff Hold:
Phone:
Fax:
PRESS TBD/WH PHOTO
PARTICIPANTS:
The First Lady
McDonald
tbd
DEPART Aegon Building - ICTY
EN ROUTE The Ambassador's Residence
6:45 pm-
DROP-BY with Dutch Women Leaders
7:00 pm
Dining Room
Ambassador's Residence
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CLOSED PRESS/WH PHOTO
PARTICIPANTS:
PROCEED UPSTAIRS
PROCEED DOWN MAIN STAIRCASE AND TO PODIUM
7:00 pm-
AMBASSADOR'S RECEPTION FOR AMERICAN DELEGATES
7:25 pm
Living Room
Ambassador's Residence
CLOSED PRESS/WH PHOTO
FORMAT:
-Ambassador Cynthia Schneider
-The First Lady
-Song performed by the cast of Ain't Misbehavin'
PARTICIPANTS: 180 guests
CONTACT:
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THE HAGUE, HOLLAND / WASHINGTON, DC
LEAD ADVANCE:
PAT HALLEY
HOTEL SOFITEL
ROOM 308
011-31-70-381-4901
PHONE
011-31-70-382-5927 FAX
STAFF OFFICE
ROOM
011-31-70-381-1901
STAFF OFFICE PHONE
011-31-70-385-4823
STAFF OFFICE FAX
011-31-62-220-5567 CELL PHONE
PRESS LEAD
ADVANCE:
STEPHANIE JONES
ROOM 403
011-31-65-151-7778 CELL PHONE
PRESS ADVANCE:
DAN LENOS
ROOM 407
011-31-65-155-4202 CELL PHONE
SITE ADVANCE:
DEHDAN MILLER
ROOM 401
011-31-65-155-4978 CELL PHONE
SITE ADVANCE:
PETER O'KEEFE
ROOM 304
011-31-65-342-9984 CELL PHONE
SITE ADVANCE:
GREG HALE
ROOM 306
011-31-62-220-5661 CELL PHONE
RON ADVANCE:
HUMA ABEDIN
ROOM 307
011-31-65-129-0078 CELL PHONE
SCHEDULER:
EVAN RYAN
202/456-6751
PHONE
202/456-5340
FAX
202/483-0383
HOME
WHCA PAGER
#4223
PREV RON
Ambassador's Residence
The Hague
9:40 am
DEPART Ambassador's Residence
EN ROUTE The Netherlands Congress Center
9:45 am
ARRIVE The Netherlands Congress Center
GREETERS:
Dr. Nafis Sadik, Assistant Secretary General of
the United Nations and Executive Director, UNFPA
Mohammad Nizamuddin, Technical Coordinator of the
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Forum
Stirling Scruggs, Forum Coordinator
PROCEED to Vermeer Lounge accompanied by Dr. Sadik
10:00 am-
KEYNOTE ADDRESS TO UN POPULATION FORUM
11:40 am
Prins Willem-Alexander Hall
The Netherlands Congress Center
Hold:
Phone:
Fax:
Staff Hold:
Phone:
Fax:
OPEN PRESS
FORMAT:
-The First Lady and other participants are
announced into the hall and escorted to their
seats at the front of the hall.
-Seven minute video detailing the 1994 ICPD
Conference in Cairo is played.
-Upon conclusion of the video, the First Lady and
other stage participants are escorted to their
seats on the dais.
-Dr. Nafis Sadik opens the proceedings by moving
that Ambassador Biegman be elected chair by
acclamation.
-Ambassador Biegman introduces Mayor Deetman.
-Mayor Deetman makes brief remarks.
-Ambassador Biegman introduces Deputy Prime
Minister Borst.
-Deputy Prime Minister Borst makes brief remarks.
-Ambassador Biegman introduces Deputy Secretary
General Frechette.
-Deputy Secretary General Frechette makes brief
remarks.
-Dr. Sadik introduces Mrs. Rawlings.
-Mrs. Rawlings makes remarks.
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-Dr. Sadik introduces the First Lady.
-The First Lady makes remarks.
-Dr. Sadik makes concluding remarks and introduces
the ASHE Group performers from Jamaica.
-The ASHE Group performers from Jamaica deliver
a performance depicting the problems of violence
against women.
-Upon conclusion of the performance, the First
Lady exits the hall.
PARTICIPANTS: 1200-2000 guests expected.
11:45 am
DEPART The Netherlands Congress Center
EN ROUTE Government House
11:55 am
ARRIVE Government House
GREETERS:
12:00 pm-
COURTESY CALL with Prime Minister Kok
12:30 pm
TBD
Government House
Hold:
Phone:
Fax:
Staff Hold:
Phone:
Fax:
POOL SPRAY/WH PHOTO
PARTICIPANTS:
The First Lady
Prime Minister Kok
Ambassador Cynthia Schneider
Melanne Verveer
Frank Loy??
12:35 pm
DEPART Government House
EN ROUTE Embassy of the United States
12:40 pm
ARRIVE Embassy of the United States
12:45 pm-
PRIVATE MEETING
1:00 pm
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1:05 pm-
PRIVATE MEETING
1:20 pm
1:25 pm-
PRIVATE MEETING
1:40 pm
1:45 pm
DEPART Embassy of the United States of America
EN ROUTE tbd
2:00 pm-
DOWN TIME
tbd
tbd
DROP-BY The American School
TBD
The American School
Hold:
Phone:
Fax:
CLOSED PRESS/WH PHOTO
PARTICIPANTS: 1000 guests??
tbd
U.S. EMBASSY FAMILIES DROP-BY
TBD
The American School
CLOSED PRESS/WH PHOTO
PARTICIPANTS: 200 guests expected.
Tbd
DEPART The American School
EN ROUTE Schipol Airport
[drive time: 45 minutes??]
Tbd
ARRIVE Schipol Airport
tbd
WHEELS UP Schipol Airport
EN ROUTE Andrews Air Force Base
[flight time: 8 hours, 45 minutes, -6 hours]
tbd
WHEELS DOWN Andrews Air Force Base
tbd
DEPART Andrews Air Force Base
EN ROUTE The White House
tbd
ARRIVE The White House
WEATHER FORECAST FOR THE HAGUE:
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THE TRIP OF FIRST LADY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON changes
TO THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS
(FEBRUARY 6 - FEBRUARY 8, 1999)
Washington, D.C. - First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton will travel to the Hague, Netherlands,
from February 6 - February 8, 1999.
The First Lady will attend The Hague International Forum, sponsored by the United Nations
Population Fund (UNFPA) to review the results of the International Conference on Population
and Development (ICPD), held in Cairo, in September 1994. At the Cairo conference the ICPD
Programme of Action was adopted, establishing a twenty-year plan to promote sustainable
development and a stable population, including efforts to empower women by expanding access
to health care, education and employment training and increasing the role of non-governmental
organizations (NGOs) to implement these strategies. The 1999 Hague Forum will reconvene the
delegations from the more than 180 countries which participated in the Cairo Conference to
assess five years of progress made and recommend further steps to fully achieve the ICPD's
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Programme of Action goals.
As part of the week-long international conference, Mrs. Clinton will address the NGO Forum on
Sunday and will be the keynote speaker at the Population Forum on Monday. Mrs. Clinton's
participation builds on years of active involvement -- both in the United States and around the
world -- in ensuring access to safe, high quality family planning services and health care;
encouraging the economic empowerment of women; and working with NGOs on issues of civic
lives
participation, human rights and social investment.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Specific details of the First Lady's public schedule will be released as they
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The First Lady will keynote an international conference in the Hague being organized by
the United Nations Populations Fund (UNFPA) in collaboration with the government of the
Netherlands. The conference will assess overall progress on the program of action adopted at the
International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) held in Cairo in 1994.
The action agenda adopted in Cairo by 180 nations placed global population policy
within a broader context of social development and focused on improving the status of women
around the world through the promotion of access to health care -- including family planning - -
education and women's human rights. The gathering in the Hague will reconvene the
delegations from the countries that participated in the Cairo Conference. They will examine the
progress made by governments and NGOs on population and development -- on family planning
and improving women's lives and looking at the challenges that remain.
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The Trip of The First Lady
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February 6-8, 1999
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Toby - per our discussion, following is the information I
have to date concerning the events in the Hague:
The only press events are listed herein. All other
activities are closed.
NGO CONFERENCE AND UNFPA CONFERENCE
Credentialing -
Credential applications for both days
can be obtained on the UNFPA website - http://www.unfpa.org
Press Filing Center - A filing center will be provided
both days. PCs with modems, printers, power, and ISDN
lines will be available. A multbox and tv monitor will
also be available.
Translation - Conference will be conducted in English with
simultaneous translation to French and Spanish.
Multbox - - Multbox with event sound and French translation
(but not Spanish translation) will be provided in the press
section and in the press filing center.
So far, 230 media have been accredited.
Meeting with ICTY President McDonald
Our intent is to arrange a shot of the First Lady and
President Gabrielle McDonald upon departure. We are still
working on the location and other logistics which will
determine whether this is an open press or pool event. I
will advise as soon as we have this settled.
Hague Forum media advisory
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MEDIA ADVISORY
United Nations Population Fund
Contact: Corrie Shanahan
Fax: (212) 557-6416
The Hague Forum, 8-12 February 1999
Governments to Review Progress Since 1994 Cairo Conference
NEW YORK, 19 December - It's been five years since the International Conference on
Population and Development (ICPD), which was held in Cairo in 1994. It is now time to look
at progress made since Cairo and what remains to be done.
The Cairo Conference was a watershed for global population and development initiatives.
Countries now accept that rapid population growth, high fertility and gender inequality hold
back development and help to perpetuate poverty. The conference recognized that the key to
smaller families and slower population growth is empowerment and free choice, not
demographic targets. Most women, given the choice, will have fewer children than their
mothers did. Choice means access to reproductive health care, including family planning.
Government delegations from over 180
countries will be present at The Hague
Information about media
Forum to review progress on the ICPD
accreditation and an application
Programme of Action and recommend
form are on UNFPA's website at
further steps to take.
www.unfpa.org/ICPD/media.htm.
Invited speakers at The Hague Forum include:
Hillary Rodham Clinton, First Lady of the United States
Louise Fréchette, Deputy Secretary-General, the United Nations
Nafis Sadik, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
Gro Harlem Brundtland, World Health Organization (WHO)
James Gustave Speth, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Mary Robinson, United Nations High Comissioner for Human Rights
(UNHCHR)
Peter Piot, Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
Unfortunately, UNFPA is not able to help with hotel rooms for journalists at The Hague
Forum. Information on hotel rooms can be obtained from: The Hague Forum, c/o Expo &
Hoc, PO Box 11632, 2502 AP, The Hague, Netherlands, Tel: +31-70-3766733, Fax:
+31-70-4272770.
ICPD+5 Media Fact Sheets
United Nations Population Fund
220 East 42nd Street, New York, NY 10017, USA
Tel. (212) 297-5020; fax (212) 557-6416
http://www.unfpa.org
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1999
The Road to the Cairo Consensus:
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People Rather than Numbers
global
Division was set up within the UN Secretariat to analyze
population
based on the then-prevailing concern that mortality from war
and disease might cause a population decline. Researchers developed demographic
the facts
analysis and governments in developing countries conducted the first national
censuses.
of life
When 1950 and 1960 findings became available, policymakers became concerned
about rapid global population growth. The UN role expanded to include policy
development and financial and technical aid to population programs. Improved data
collection and analysis, including growth projections, brought the issue to the
attention of more policymakers and stimulated national population programs.
In 1974, 1984 and 1994, the UN organized international population conferences to
help build world consensus on the need to address population issues. These created
political support for national policies to promote sustainable populations and
voluntary family planning programs.
The 1994 International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo was
an important watershed. The conference document reaffirmed the importance of
slowing population growth for social and economic development, but it also called
for a major shift in strategies to achieve this goal: an emphasis on meeting the needs
of individual women and men, rather than on achieving any demographic targets.
The 1994 ICPD in Cairo
The UN Economic and Social Council in 1991 explicitly linked development and
population when it named the 1994 gathering. Preparations for a 1992 UN
Conference, on Environment and Development (ICED) in Rio de Janeiro, focussed
attention on the new concept of "sustainability" - that environmental and
population factors are critical in economic growth.
Other crucial influence came from the 1990 World Summit for Children and the
1993 Vienna Conference on Human Rights. The ICPD's first preparatory meeting
resolved that population, sustainable economic growth and development would be
ICPD themes.
The ICPD was the largest intergovernmental conference on population and
development ever held: 11,000 registered representatives from governments,
NGOs, UN agencies and intergovernment agencies. 179 States negotiated on a
Programme of Action for the next 20 years, while another 4,000 NGOs held a
parallel conference and there was unprecedented media attention.
Cairo Is Working
The key to the Cairo consensus, and perhaps its chief achievement, was recognition of the need to
empower women, providing them with more choices through expanded access to education and health
services, skill development and employment, and full involvement in policy and decisionmaking at all
levels.
The ICPD Programme of Action facilitated reforms in population/family planning programs so that they
no longer use targets, incentives or coercion. Instead they include integrated approaches where
services, education and quality care are central elements.
Since Cairo, non-governmental organizations have achieved near-full participation in official conference
proceedings. The Programme of Action language on NGOs' role and civil society was the strongest
from any UN gathering. Since Cairo, NGOs have participated as official delegates to UN conclaves
and have been instrumental in providing language for the final documents.
ICPD Plus Five: Reviewing the Results
The 1999 ICPD + 5 is the first review in the 20-year course of the Cairo Programme of Action. The
UN General Assembly, ordering this comprehensive appraisal of implementation so far, further
resolved that the review would not reopen provisions of the Programme but would instead identify
ways to advance its implementation.
Beginning in April 1998 with the first of four roundtable discussions, a series of events (1) involved
program countries, donor countries, the UN system, and civil society including NGOs and the private
sector in discussion of current issues.
An International Forum convenes in The Hague in February 1999 to recommend next steps in
implementation for presentation at the March 1999 meeting of the Commission on Population and
Development. The review then culminates in a three-day Special Session of the UN General Assembly
in June 1999.
The Role of NGOs
NGOs will be fully involved in the review process. They have identified five themes that must be
addressed if the Cairo Programme of Action is to be realized:
Resources and advocacy;
Reproductive rights: rhetoric to reality;
Putting the Cairo agenda into practice: providing sexual and reproductive health services;
Links between population, environment and development; and
Partnerships
Each theme area will be the focus of a panel discussion during the NGO Forum at The Hague in
February 1999. The forum's final document will suggest further steps needed to implement the Cairo
Programme of Action into the next century.
Sources: (1) The events will concern adolescent sexual and reproductive health; reproductive rights and implementation of reproductive
health programmes, women's empowerment, male involvement and human rights; the role of civil society; and population and macro-
economic links.
December 1998
1999
About the Cairo Consensus &
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The Hague Forum
PEOPLE
global
community will be engaged in a five-year review of the
population
Action. Dubbed "Cairo Plus Five" or "ICPD + 5," this process
will assess the progress made to date, examine the obstacles remaining, and produce
the facts
practical recommendations aimed at making the conference's 20-year goals a reality.
of life
About the Cairo Consensus
The International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), held in
Cairo in September 1994, was a watershed for global population and development
initiatives.
Countries now accept that population concerns are at the heart of sustainable
development strategies. Rapid population growth and high fertility hold back
development. They help to perpetuate poverty. They make it hard for countries to
concentrate on the future, because resources are soaked up by present needs.
But the Cairo conference also put an end to the concept of "population control."
The conference recognized that smaller families and slower population growth
depend not on "control" but on free choice - the idea, borne out by 30 years of
experience, that most women, given the choice, will have fewer children than their
mothers did.
Choice means access to reproductive health care, including a range of family
planning information and services, but it doesn't stop there. Women and men must
feel that the services available and the quality of care meet their reproductive health
needs.
The Cairo agenda also means more attention to education for women and girls. It
means leadership, encouraging family and community support for women's choices.
It means more women active in the community, in government at all levels and in
the private sector. It means protection for women's legal rights. It means, in three
words, empowerment, equity and equality. It is a powerful idea. It is an idea whose
time has come.
The ICPD's 20-year programme is ambitious but practical. It is the outcome of
three years' hard negotiation, and was agreed to by all 179 countries, rich and poor,
north and south, industrialized and developing, that attended the Cairo conference.
By 2015, it calls for:
Universal access to quality and affordable reproductive health services,
including family planning and sexual health;
Significant reductions in infant, child and maternal mortality;
Broad-based measures to ensure gender equity and equality and the empowerment of women;
Universal access to primary education; and
Closing the "gender gap" in education.
About The Hague Forum in 1999
The five year review and appraisal of the implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action provides
non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other elements of civil society with an opportunity to
take stock of what has been achieved since 1994 — what has worked, what obstacles have been
encountered and where to go from here.
An international forum — The Hague Forum (HF) - will be convened at the Netherlands Congress
Centre (NCC) in The Hague from 8-12 February 1999.
Immediately before The Hague Forum, an NGO Forum and a Youth Forum will take place at the
Netherlands Congress Center in The Hague. A Parliamentarians' meeting will also be held in The
Hague. The dates for the NGO Forum and the Youth Fora are 6-7 February 1999.
The Cairo Plus Five process will not end in The Hague, but will continue at the 32ⁿᵈ Session of the
Commission on Population and Development (CPD). The CPD session is the preparatory meeting to
the United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) that will convene in June 1999 to
review implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action.
NGO Forum Secretariat
For registration forms and extensive information about the NGO Forum, concurrent Youth Forum,
and related activities
Go to: http://www.ngoforum.org
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
For information on the Hague Forum and other U.N. activities related to ICPD + 5
Go to: http://www.unfpa.org/ICPD/ICPD.HTM
1999
Summary of the Programme of Action
International Conference on Population & Development (ICPD)
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Cairo, 5-13 September 1994
global
population
more than 180 countries agreed to adopt the 16-chapter
Action. The 115-page document outlines a 20-year plan to
the facts
promote sustainable, human-centered development and a stable population, framing
the issues with broad principles and specific actions. Some 20 delegations expressed
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reservations about specific parts of the text.
Chapters I & II: The Preamble and the Principles set out the development and
human rights context of the Programme.
The Preamble places the ICPD in global context, noting the interdependence of
population and development; recent rapid population growth; the need to mobilize
partnerships and international resources; and the links to agreements from other
major world conferences and universal standards of human rights.
The set of 15 Principles states positions on basic issues discussed in the rest of the
document. These include: the universal equality and rights of all as set forth in the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights; people-centered sustainable development;
gender equity; the context of population programmes; the relationship of
population, resources, the environment and development; the eradication of
poverty; the rights to education and to physical and mental health; support for the
family; the health and development of children; the treatment of documented
migrants; the right to asylum; the rights of indigenous people; and sustained
economic growth that benefits a broad social base.
Each subsequent chapter contains Bases for Action, Objectives, and Actions.
Chapter III: Interrelationships Among Population, Sustained Economic Growth and
Sustainable Development: Outlines links between the needs and acts of growing
numbers of people and the finite "carrying capacity" of natural resources.
Action recommendations include: integrating population, production and
consumption dynamics into sustainable development policies; investing in human
resources, including education, employment and health services, particularly in needs
of women and the poor; promoting socially responsive economies; and taking extra
measures to end poverty in ecologically vulnerable areas.
Chapter IV: Gender Equality, Equity and Empowerment of Women: Addresses
imbalances between women and men and the need to empower women, protect the
girl child, and achieve gender equity.
Action recommendations include: policies and programs to empower women;
promoting equal treatment and preventing the neglect and abuse of girl children;
and promoting equal responsibility of men in family life, in health, communication
and economics.
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Chapter V: The Family, Its Roles, Rights, Composition and Structure: Recognizes that the family, in
all its forms, is the basic unit of society and that population and development policies should promote
the family in all its diversity.
Action recommendations include: promoting the earning power of poorer families and greater
compatibility between work and parental duties; and developing innovative policies to assist families
with health, social and/or political disadvantages.
Chapter VI: Population Growth and Structure: States that countries where demographic growth
outstrips economic growth face special challenges in ensuring a quality of life based on human rights
and sustainable development.
Action recommendations include: integrating demographic trends with social and economic
development; reducing high maternal and child mortality levels that often lead to high fertility rates;
meeting the health, education, social, training and employment needs of children and youth; enhancing
equity, self-reliance and support systems for elderly people, particularly women; and recognizing the
perspectives of indigenous cultures and persons with disabilities and developing responsive policies
and programs.
Chapter VII: Reproductive Rights and Reproductive Health: States that all couples and individuals
have the right to attain the highest standard of sexual and reproductive health.
Action recommendations include: providing universal reproductive health services by 2015, including
participatory programs for adolescents, men, migrants and displaced persons; seeking universal access
to safe, appropriate and adequately-funded family planning programs by 2015, based on the principles
of voluntary and informed choice and quality of care; helping women avoid abortion; promoting the
prevention, detection and treatment of sexually-transmitted diseases, including HIV/AIDS; developing
policies and programs that support comprehensive sexual education and services based on an improved
understanding of the need for responsibility, the realities of current behavior, and the prevention of
abuse, including female genital mutilation; and ensuring access to appropriate and supportive
reproductive health programs and services for adolescents.
Chapter VIII: Health, Morbidity and Mortality: Focuses on international and national level
commitments to increasing health and life span and improving the quality of life of all people.
Action recommendations include: promoting strategies to reduce morbidity and mortality, to recognize
the custodial role of women in health, and to reduce local and large-scale environmental health
hazards; reducing high infant and child mortality rates to 35 and 45 per 1,000, respectively, and
maternal mortality by half by 2015; and mobilizing to prevent and assess the impact of HIV/AIDS,
protecting the rights of all those affected.
Chapter IX: Population Distribution, Urbanization and Internal Migration: In the context of human
rights, outlines the need for countries to foster balanced and sustainable patterns of population
distribution through sustainable development and the reduction of "push factors" related to migration,
including ending all forced migration and "ethnic cleansing."
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Action recommendations include: keeping population distribution policies consistent with other
development goals, policies and human rights; encouraging the growth of small-to-medium urban
centers; reducing urban bias through rural development incentives, conservation and infrastructure;
promoting urban development responsive to growth; maintaining consistency with the Fourth Geneva
Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War (1949); improving conditions
for the urban poor, especially women and street children; and providing displaced persons with basic
social services, including health, education, and employment opportunities.
Chapter X: International Migration: Considers documented and undocumented migrants, refugees,
asylum-seekers and displaced persons, emphasizing the need to address the root causes of migration
and vulnerabilities of the displaced.
Action recommendations include: addressing economic imbalances between developed and developing
countries; addressing circumstances of environmental refugees; gathering sound data on migration
factors; addressing discriminatory attitudes and practices; promoting integration and re-integration of
the displaced; adopting sanctions for international trafficking, especially against exploitation,
prostitution and coercive adoption; enhancing mechanisms for cross-border responsibility; and
respecting the principle of non-refoulement, the non-forcible return of persons whose freedom is
threatened.
Chapter XI: Population, Development and Education: Focuses on the need for universal access to
quality education, the relationship between population and sustainable development, and the need to
enhance people's ability to "exercise their basic right to decide freely and responsibly on the number
and spacing of their children."
Action recommendations include: achieving universal access to quality education; promoting job
training, non-formal education and literacy programs; integrating reproductive health, gender
sensitivity, demographic, health and environmental perspectives into existing programs as appropriate;
using the media to expand culturally-appropriate knowledge and motivation in population, health and
development; disseminating information on the relationships between population, consumption,
production and sustainable development through databases and networks; and strengthening research
about population and development issues.
Chapter XII: Technology, Research and Development: Outlines the need to collect, analyze and
disseminate population, socio-economic, and reproductive health-related data.
Action recommendations include: encouraging collection and use of data; setting up databases to link
categories such as population, education, environment, health, poverty, family well-being, migration and
development issues, including consumption and women's role in economic development;
implementing appropriate training programs; refining research on reproductive and sexual health at
social, medical and technical levels; improving program recognition of social, cultural and economic
differences; applying operations research to evaluations; and investigating gender discrepancies
revealed in research.
Chapter XIII: National Action: States that each country should incorporate population concerns into
national development strategies, involve all sectors of society in development decisions, and mobilize
and allocate resources.
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Action recommendations include: working with partners to promote awareness of population and
development strategies, plans, policies and programs; developing human resources, especially women as
leaders; promoting experience-sharing and database networking; developing client-centered
information systems; mobilizing resources through cost-recovery measures, including more involvement
of the private sector, to ensure "universal availability of and access to high-quality reproductive health
and family planning services"; and increasing public and development assistance spending in social
sectors, including developing reliable cost estimates.
Chapter XIV: International Cooperation: States the need for the international community to create an
enabling economic environment for implementing the Programme, to develop "people-centered"
population and development strategies, and to make a strong commitment to funding population and
development programs.
Action recommendations include: offering technical assistance and appropriate technology transfer to
reinforce national capacity-building; promoting economic policy favoring sustained economic growth;
strengthening cooperation between governmental and non-governmental organizations; striving to fulfill
the consensus target of .7% of GNP for overall official population and development assistance;
coordinating financing and planning based on evaluation, needs assessment, and complementary
programs; exploring innovative financing mechanisms and direct South-South funding; and expanding
financial aid in population, reproductive, sexual health, and family planning.
Chapter XV: Partnership with the Non-Governmental Sector: Calls for greater cooperation and
partnerships among all levels of government and the full range of NGOs and the private sector in program
design, implementation, coordination, and evaluation.
For governments, action recommendations include: promoting partnerships with NGOs, especially
women's groups through dialogue, decisionmaking, program planning, training, outreach and other
activities; and promoting partnerships with the private sector and NGOs. For NGOs, action
recommendations include: strengthening interaction with communities while joining national, regional
and international debates on population and development. For the private sector, action
recommendations include: channeling financial and other appropriate support to non-profit NGOs and
meeting their employees' needs for information, education and reproductive health services.
Chapter XVI: Follow-up to the Conference: Calls for creation of national, subregional, regional and
international follow-up mechanisms to promote implementation of the Programme of Action through
appropriate, coordinated and specific policies and programs.
Action recommendations include: prioritizing political leadership and commitment, dissemination,
spending levels, accountability, multi-disciplinary expertise and evaluation, and increasing efficiency in
U.N. and aid groups. The ICPD made a global commitment to mobilize $17 billion annually by the year
2000 and over $21 billion by 2015 for population and reproductive health programs. So far less than $10
billion per year is being directed to these programs, four-fifths of it from developing countries.
International assistance remains well below the $5.7 billion per year that the ICPD agreed would be
required by 2000.
Sources: Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development; Document/ Conference Summary,
Population Communications International; Chapter Summaries, International Women's Health Coalition; State of World Population 1998,
United Nations Population Fund.
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AIDS/HIV: The New Trends
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IDS/HIV is reversing decades of progress in improving the quality of life in
global
developing countries. It has slashed life expectancies and forces choices
between health and dozens of other investments vital for development. If AIDS
population
affects 5% of the population, for example, total national spending on health will
increase by 40%. (1)
the facts
of life
Affected governments need to place AIDS at the center of their development
priorities, not just on the health agenda, to ensure that the crisis is addressed in
every policymaking arena. They need to lead in creating a helpful legal
environment and programs for education and counseling so as to raise awareness of
the disease and to promote behavioral changes, safe sex practices, the use of
condoms and treatments for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Partnerships
are vital - among governments and NGOs, churches and the private sector.
Prevention education works. In several southern African factories, the rate of
new infections was reduced by over a third at the cost of only $6 per employee
through peer education, condom distribution, voluntary testing and counseling,
and job-sponsored health benefits and disability packets.
AIDS Is the Number One Killer
Worldwide, 33.4 million people are infected with AIDS/HIV, including 1.3 million
children. The incurable disease has claimed 13.9 million lives since the epidemic
began, 3.2 million of them children. In 1998, 2.5 million people died of AIDS. Fully
30% of all tuberculosis deaths are due to HIV/AIDS infections, and if those deaths
are counted, AIDS in 2020 will be the single largest cause of adult death from
infectious diseases (2).
AIDS Is Spreading Fastest in the Developing World
By 1990, AIDS had already caused more adult deaths than malaria in the
developing world. By 2020, it will cause 37% of adult deaths due to infectious
disease in those nations.
New infection rates are slowing in most of the industrialized world, but 5.8 million
infections still occurred in 1998, 70% of them in sub-Saharan Africa. A total of 21.5
million adults are infected there and 75% of all adult deaths result from AIDS or
AIDS-related diseases. The vast majority are age 20-50, the most productive years (2).
In Botswana, 25% of all adults are HIV-positive. In Zimbabwe and Namibia the
rate is 20%; Zambia 19%; Swaziland 18% and in several other African countries,
10% or more.
In Botswana, where relatively few HIV cases have progressed to AIDS, the virus
in 1997 cost companies 0.7% of their wage bill. In 2002, an expected sevenfold
rise in HIV infections will bring health-related costs to nearly 12% of the wage
bill.
Women, the most important agents of development, are especially vulnerable
because of social and economic inequality. In Africa, women under 25 have the
fastest-rising infection rate.
In South and Southeast Asia, 6.4 million people now live with HIV/AIDS, while another 1.7
million became infected in 1997.
The latest UN report described an "explosion" of the disease in cities of India, evidently because
of migrant workers and truckers. The epidemic in Asia could be bigger than the one in Africa.
The HIV infection rate is not expected to level off in Africa until the next decade, and in Asia not
until after 2010.
AIDS has slashed life expectancies in many developing nations. Average life expectancies increased
from 39 years to 55 years by 1990 in most of the developing world. But AIDS has wiped out 2/3 of
this advance in Burkina Faso and Cote d'Ivoire.
Botswana's 1990 life expectancy of 61 years has dropped to 47 years.
In Zimbabwe, life expectancy was on course to reach 66 years by 2005, but because of AIDS,
children born today can expect to live only 35 years. The population is expected to stop growing
because of AIDS and by 2015 will be 19% smaller.
AIDS Orphans Are a Growing Tragedy
More than 8 million children have lost one or both parents to AIDS since the epidemic began. In 23
countries studied by UNFPA, the number of these "AIDS orphans" is expected to double by 2000, and
the total in the worst-hit 19 African nations will be 40 million by 2010. AIDS orphans typically suffer from
malnutrition and are more likely to stop going to school, to have to support themselves and take on
adult responsibilities in the home, and to leave home or lose their homes. Often they become street
children. Girls may feel increased pressure to marry. In Uganda, where HIV infection rates have fallen
from 35 to 30% and apparently leveled off, AIDS orphans are estimated to number 1.7 million.
Signs of Hope
Concerted government-led programs involving health education, promoting condom use and
discouraging sexual promiscuity have slowed HIV infection rates in some poor nations including
Thailand, Uganda and Brazil.
In Thailand, a vigorous campaign involving brothels raised condom use to over 90%. The number
of patients with STDs other than AIDS has dropped dramatically, and the HIV infection rate
among army conscripts has dropped from 4% to less than 2%.
In Nairobi, Kenya, a programme that treated STDs of 500 prostitutes raised their condom use to
80% and is estimated to have prevented 10,000 infections per year among their clients, clients'
wives and other partners.
In Brazil, condom sales rose from 406,000 in 1991 to nearly 27 million in 1996.
Sources: (1) Except where noted, all figures in this paper are taken from UNFPA, State of the World Population 1998 (New York: 1998) and
from UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, World Population Estimates and Projections, 1998 Revision (New
York: October 1998); (2) Joint UN Program on HIV/AIDS and World Health Organization, AIDS Epidemic Update: December 1998, (New
York: Dec 1998), www.unaids.org/highband/document/epidemio/wadr98e.pdf
December 1998
1999
Equality, Equity and
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OF
The Empowerment of Women
PEOPLE
global
population
D
espite many international agreements affirming women's human rights, girls and
women are still much more likely than men to be poor, malnourished and
illiterate, and to have less access than men to medical care, property ownership, credit,
the facts
training and employment. They are far less likely than men to be politically active
and far more likely to be victims of domestic violence.
of life
Where women are poor, uneducated and have little participation in the wider
society, family size tends to be large and the population growth rate high. Population
and development programs are more effective when they center on improving the
education, rights and status of women.
Childbearing has been women's chief source of security and status for centuries.
This is still the case, especially where women are denied education, reproductive
health care, secure livelihoods and full equal rights. Successful population and
development programs must offer women options for their lives beyond
childbearing.
Women in developing nations are usually in charge of securing water, food and
fuel and of overseeing family health and diet. Therefore they tend to put into
immediate practice whatever they learn about nutrition, preserving the
environment and natural resources, and improving sanitation and health care.
Of the 960 million illiterate adults in the world, two-thirds are female. Higher
levels of women's education are strongly associated with both lower infant
mortality and lower fertility. In poor countries, every additional year of a
woman's schooling is associated with a 5 to 10% decline in child deaths. (1)
Children born to mothers below age 18 are 1.5 times more likely to die before
age 5 than those born to mothers age 20-34. Yet three of every four teenage
girls in Africa are mothers, and 40 percent of births there are to women under
17. (2)
Programs that offer girls alternative life choices can help them stay in school
and, consequently, delay childbearing. This lengthens the time span between
generations. Such women tend also to have fewer children - three or four
rather than six or more. (3)
Laws and customs often deny women the right to own land, inherit property,
establish credit, receive training or move up in their field of work. Laws against
domestic violence are often not enforced on behalf of women. Achieving gender
equality in these areas will require the support of men who exercise most of the
power in these spheres of life.
The involvement of men is critical to women's rights and to population policy success. In
Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Niger and Senegal, for example, men want between two and four more
children than their wives do; in Cameroon, Mali and Senegal, fewer than half of men approve of
family planning. Birthrates in those West African nations are higher than in most of East Africa,
where with the exception of Tanzania, more than 90% of both men and women favor family
planning. (4)
The roles that men and women play in society are not biologically determined - they are socially
determined. Often justified as required by culture or religion, they still vary widely by locality and
change constantly; they are not immutable. Slavery, torture and racial and ethnic prejudice are also
centuries-old practices now rightly condemned worldwide when they involve people of color,
political dissidents, Jews or other ethnic groups. Violations of women's human rights must receive
the same international censure.
Because roles are deeply embedded social practices, programs are needed that work with young
people to orient them toward gender equality.
The ICPD Programme of Action commits nations to:
Close the gender gap in education and political life; eliminate illiteracy and legal political and
social barriers to women; and ensure equal representation of women in aid programs.
Combat violence against women and girls, including sexual violence.
Ratify all agreements that further women's rights.
Design programs for the aging that address the special needs of elderly women.
Urge employers to help workers manage their family and work responsibilities through flexible
hours, parental leave, daycare facilities and so on.
Involve men in family planning and responsibilities and in the prevention of sexually transmitted
diseases.
Ensure that children receive appropriate financial support by enforcing child support laws, among
other things.
Enforce laws on minimum age of consent and marriage.
Eliminate female genital mutilation.
Provide adolescents not only with information and services, but also education and life choices.
Sources: (1) UNFPA, "Population Issues Briefing Kit 1998," (New York: 1998); (2) Alan Guttmacher Institute, "Issues in Brief: Family
Planning Improves Child Survival and Health" (Washington DC: Alan Guttmacher Institute, 1997), and Nafis Sadik, "Investing in Women:
The Focus of the "90s," in Laurie Ann Mazur (ed.), Beyond the Numbers: A Reader on Population, Consumption and the Environment
(Washington DC, Island Press, 1994); (3) Population Reference Bureau, A Citizen's Guide to the International Conference on Population and
Development, 1993; (4) James E. Rosen and Shanti R. Conly, Africa's Population Challenge: Accelerating Progress in Reproductive Health
(Washington DC: Population Action International, 1998).
December 1998
1999
People on the Move:
DAY
OF
Urbanization & International Migration
PEOPLE
global
population
P
eople leave their native lands for many reasons: to find better work, escape
political conflict or personal danger, and to find a better environment to live in.
They may migrate again or return home when conditions change or their purposes
the facts
are accomplished. These factors are often related to population pressures. Both the
communities gaining population and those losing it may view the change either as
of life
threat or benefit.
Reliable statistics on the movement of people from country to country do not exist.
The best current "guesstimate" from the United Nations Population Fund, however,
is that roughly 120 million people were living outside their countries of birth or
citizenship in 1998. The number is thought to be rising for a number of reasons;
one is that the native labor pool in the industrialized world is shrinking while the
developing world's workforce will soon double. (1)
Migration Affects Urbanization Patterns
Cities are growing faster than ever. The world was 45% urban in 1995 (2), and
cities are expected to hold most of the projected increase in humanity for the
next 25 years.
The number of cities with more than 1 million people rose from 111 in 1960 to
280 in 1995, and two-thirds of those are in developing nations.(3)
By 2010, the developing-world total will be 368 such cities, up from 173 in
1990. This will further strain those nations' capacity to provide services such as
energy, education, health care, transportation, sanitation and physical security.
Violence Attends Much Migration
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) reports that
most of the 22 million people who came under its wing in 1997 were fleeing
from conflict, both domestic and international. Most of them fled to poor
countries - only 406,000 sought asylum in Western nations, up from 318,300
in 1997.(4)
Refugees, especially women, often suffer beatings, rape and other abuses of
their human rights while losing access to systems of justice and medical care.
The lack of reproductive health care for refugee women is especially acute.
Migrants Do Not Fit Stereotypes
Immigrants to industrialized nations from developing ones tend to have higher fertility rates for the
first generation (25 years). Thereafter their fertility rates equal those of the host country. (5)
For the most part, voluntary immigrants are not the world's poorest and most destitute people but
those with the energy, intelligence, courage and resources to seek a better life.
The ICPD Programme of Action commits nations to:
Recognize and address the root "push" causes of migration - armed conflicts, human rights
violations, environmental degradation, lack of sustainable economic growth, and insufficient social
resources - and also acknowledge the influence of economic "pull" factors.
Improve urban planning by encouraging the growth of small or medium-sized urban centers and
sustainable development in rural areas.
Assess the impact of national economic and environmental policies on residential patterns, and
build capacity to manage urban development.
Stem undocumented migration by improving law enforcement (especially against profiteering
smugglers of aliens) while safeguarding the human rights of undocumented migrants.
Protect refugees and asylum-seekers, reduce pressures that lead to refugee movements and
support international refugee assistance.
Sources: (1) Population Action International, Why Population Matters (New York: 1996), p. 19; (2) UNFPA, The State of World Population
1998 (New York: 1998), p. 70; (3) UNFPA, The State of World Population 1995 (New York: 1995); (4) Intergovernmental Consultations on
Asylum, Refugee and Migration Policies, and U.S. Committee for Refugees (World Wide Web site:
wttp://www.refugees.org/world/statistics/wrs98 table10.htm): (5) Joseph A. McFalls Jr., "Population: A Lively Introduction" (Third Edition),
Population Bulletin 53.3 (Washington DC: Population Reference Bureau, 1998), p. 10.
December 1998
1999
Money Matters:
AY OF O BILION
Financial Resource Commitments
PEOPLE
global
population
Thard negoiations and Thard negotiations and goals of the ICPD, participating governments - after
much research - agreed to increase spending on
population and related programmes to $17 billion per year by 2000. The figure, less
the facts
than one week's global spending on armaments, was to climb to $22 billion by
2015.
of life
Two-thirds of the total was to come from developing nations and one-third from
the industrialized world.
The developed nations set a target of development assistance spending totaling
0.7% of their Gross Domestic Product (GDP) each year. Population funding
was to total 4% of each nation's official development assistance.
That commitment was a departure from trends prior to 1994, which had showed a
steady slight decline in overall development assistance. But the ICPD saw that just
to maintain the levels of contraceptive use that had led to global fertility declines,
about 100 million more couples would need access to reproductive health and
family planning services by 2000.
A Good Start
In 1995, a global total of $9.5 billion was earmarked for population programmes
and projects, a substantial rise from 1994 spending.
Donor countries increased their assistance to $2 billion, the highest percentage in
a decade.
Developing nations provided $7.5 billion, about 78% of total investments, more
than projected. China, India and Indonesia accounted for more than half that
amount.
The funds were channeled to projects directed at the education of girls; expansion
of reproductive health care and family planning information and services for women
and men; and production and distribution of safe, effective and inexpensive
contraceptives. These were the programmatic priorities agreed upon at the ICPD.
Follow-through is Lacking
Since 1995, however, donor nations with a few exceptions have been reducing their
support for population measures rather than increasing it as promised.
Only five nations have managed to reach the target of devoting 0.7% of their
GDP to development assistance: Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway and the
Netherlands. Most others are far short of their commitments.
Population aid from all donor nations was 2.46% of official development assistance in 1996, up
from 2.32% in 1995 but still short of their share. (2)
In 1996, 94% of all population assistance funding came from ten countries: the Netherlands and
the United States (55% together); and the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, Denmark, Sweden,
Norway, Canada and Australia. (2)
Final 1996 spending by region was as follows: Sub-Saharan Africa $422 million (28%); Asia and
the Pacific $367 million (24%); Latin America and the Caribbean $197 million (13%); Western
Asia and North Africa $104 million (7%); Europe $25 million (2%). The remaining 26% went to
global and interregional aid. (2)
The Consequences of Continuing to Fall Short Will Be Severe
The UN Population Fund has projected scenarios for low, medium and high rates of shortfall from the
Cairo commitments. (1)
Constant growth of commitments, the most optimistic, assumes that donor nations continue their current
below-target rate of growth in contributions 1995-2000, and that developing nations meet the Cairo
targets. This means a shortfall of $2.1 billion in 2000.
Some 97 million people who would have chosen contraception will not be able to do so. The
number of unintended pregnancies will rise by 130 million.
Abortions will increase by 50 million. Unwanted births will rise by 59 million. Maternal deaths will
rise by 300,000, and an additional 3.6 million infants and 1.3 million children will die from
inadequate health care.
Intermediate growth of commitments assumes assistance rises 20% more slowly than in the above
scenario. This leads to a $2.9 billion shortfall in 2000.
About 130 million people who would have chosen contraception will not be able to do so. The
number of unintended pregnancies will rise by 170 million.
Abortions will increase by 68 million. Unwanted births will rise by 79 million. Maternal deaths will
rise by 400,000, and another 4.8 million infants and 1.8 million children will die from inadequate
health care.
Low growth of commitments assumes that developing nations also fall short of their targets. This results
in a $3.8 billion shortfall in 2000.
Some 170 million people who would have chosen contraception will not be able to do so. The
number of unintended pregnancies will rise by 230 million.
Abortions will increase by 92 million. Unwanted births will rise by 110 million. Maternal deaths will
rise by 540,000, and an additional 6.5 million infants and 2.4 million children will die from
inadequate health care.
Sources: (1) Except where indicated, all figures are from UNFPA, Falling Short: Struggling to Implement the Cairo Programme of Action, (New
York: 1997). (2) UNFPA, Global Population Assistance Report, 1996 (New York: 1997),
December 1998
1999
Contacts:
DAY OF BILLION
United Nations,
PEOPLE
global
U.S. Government and International
population
United Nations
the facts
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Stirling Scruggs, Director of
of life
Information and External Relations, Contact: Corrie Shanahan, Senior Information
Officer, [email protected], (212) 297-5023, www.unfpa.org.
United Nations Population Division. Contact: Joseph Chamie, Director, (212)
963-3179.
U.S. Government
U.S. Agency for International Development, Center for Population,
Health & Nutrition, Liz Maguire, Director, Office of Population. Contact:
Dianne Sherman, Director of Communication & Outreach, [email protected],
(202) 712-4817, www.infor.usaid.gov/pop_health.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Contact: Sarah Kovner,
Special Assistant to the Secretary, (202) 690-6347, www.os.dbbs.gov.
U.S. State Department, Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration,
Margaret Pollack, Director, Office of Population. Contact: Suzanne Petroni,
Program Officer, [email protected], (202) 663-3029,
www.state.gov/www/global/prmr; U.S. Information Agency Electronic Journal,
"Population at the New Millennium: the U.S. Perspective,"
www.usia.gov/journals/journals.htm.
International
World Population Foundation, Wouter Meijer, Executive Director.
Contact: Joke Van Kampen,[email protected], (31) 35 642 2304, www.wpf.org.
December 1998
1999
The Human Population:
DAY
OF
Six Billion and Growing
PEOPLE
global
population
O
ctober 12, 1999 marks the day the Earth's population reaches 6 billion. Over
one billion will be adolescents, just entering their reproductive years.
the facts
In 1804: world population reached 1 billion
1927: 2 billion (123 years later)
of life
1960: 3 billion (33 years)
1974: 4 billion (13 years)
1987: 5 billion (12 years)
1999: 6 billion (12 years)
The fact that the fifth and sixth billion both took 12 years is a sign that at last the
rate of increase has begun to slow. (1) But humanity's numbers continue to rise.
The seventh and eighth billion will probably take another 14 to 15 years each, but
that rate is not guaranteed.
The current pace is adding about 78 million more people every year - the
population of France, Greece and Sweden combined, or a city the size of San
Francisco every three days. Nearly all the increase occurs in the less-developed
countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America, where women continue to have four to
seven children each over their lifetimes. Early in the next century, nearly all the net
annual gain in global population will come in developing countries, as fertility rates in
the industrialized nations stabilize at or slightly below 2.1 children per woman. (1)
Birth rates are falling worldwide, and death rates are falling even faster.
The ultimate peak global population size will depend on the availability of
information, access to family planning services and the individual decisions of every
person on earth. Those choices will depend in part on whether nations fulfill their
commitments to the International Conference on Population and Development
(ICPD) Programme of Action.
The United Nations projects high, medium and low population-growth scenarios for
the next half-century. The ICPD Programme of Action is dedicated to achieving the
"medium" scenario or better:
The "high" scenario assumes that the slowing of fertility rates continues at its
current pace, so that today's global 1.33% annual population growth rate
declines to 0.86%, with 10.7 billion people on earth by 2050.
The "medium" calculation, regarded as most likely, assumes fertility rates fall
still faster worldwide, so that growth slows to 0.34% per year by 2050, bringing
the population to 8.9 billion.
The "low" projection of 7.3 billion would require an average annual net loss in
population of -0.23% by 2050. That means women would be bearing fewer than
two children each worldwide over their lifetimes. This is considered unlikely.(1)
ICPD participants generally agreed with world demographic researchers on the chief causes of
continued population growth:
Population momentum from the global postwar baby boom, with the planet's unprecedented
1 billion teenagers just entering their reproductive years;
Unwanted and unplanned pregnancies, where an estimated 350 million couples lack access to the
full range of contraception and other reproductive health services. (2)
A demand for large families where, for example, childhood death rates are high, or where poverty
reduces people's options.
The ICPD and researchers also generally agreed on the reasons fertility rates decline:
Broader horizons for girls and women in education, rights and health care, including reproductive
health care; and in opportunities for work, credit, training, and political and economic activity, which
lead them to postpone childbearing;
Availability of better quality health care and affordable family planning services and technology that
allow women and men to make their own choices; and
Urbanization, which tends to reduce family size.
Modern medical knowledge and better living conditions have dramatically lowered the global death rate,
especially for infants and children but also for women of childbearing age and for the elderly. The result:
with continued commitment of resources to expanded primary and reproductive health care, the world
population profile is beginning to shift from a short pyramid toward becoming a taller pillar, where the
number of people over 65 will begin to approach the number of children.
In 1950, average life expectancy in the developing world was just under 40 years. Today it is 61,
although AIDS and other factors are expected to bring it down once more in some nations, mostly
in Africa. At the same time, life expectancy in the industrialized nations rose from 66 to 75 years.
(3)
In about 71 nations and territories in Africa, Asia, the Mideast and Latin America, more than 40%
of the population is under 15.
In the 46 nations with fertility levels below the replacement level of 2.1 children per woman, mostly
in Europe and the industrialized world, people older than 65 are an unprecedented 10 to 15% of
the population today and are expected to reach 20 to 30% by 2050. (4)
The number of older people is increasing so fast worldwide that for the first time, the UN this
year lists separate categories for people aged 80 to 90 (58.6 million), 90 to 100 (7.3 million) and
over 100 (100,000). In 2050, these numbers are expected to be 11.1 million, 56.9 million and 2.2
million, respectively - more than a sixfold increase. (1)
Sources: (1) United Nations Population Division, "1998 Revision, World Population Estimates and Projections" (New York: Department of
Economic and Social Affairs, Nov. 28, 1998). (2) UNFPA, Advocating Change (New York: 1998). (3) Population Reference Bureau, 1998
World Population Data Sheet (Washington DC: PRB 1998). (4) UNFPA, "The State of World Population 1998" (New York: UNFPA 1998)
December 1998
1999
The Myth of Shrinking Population
DAY
OF
PEOPLE
global
W
omen worldwide are having half the number of children that their mothers
did in the 1950s. Lifetimes are lengthening and child survival rates are
improving in most of the world, while opportunities and education for women and
population
men are generally on the rise. In 61 nations, women's fertility rates have fallen
below the "replacement level" of 2.1 children per woman. (1) However, world
the facts
population continues to rise by 78 million people per year.
of life
The reasons for falling fertility are many: broadened horizons for girls and women,
who respond by delaying childbearing; health care advances that keep babies alive,
reducing the demand for more; broad availability of reliable and inexpensive family
planning services; and urbanization.
In short, the planet seems to have averted - at least for now - the threat of a
population bomb. However, environmental security and sustainability require
continued effort. We have come perhaps half the distance to population stability.
The danger now is that we will declare victory and go home.
Some vocal contrarians are recommending just that. They argue that the trends
leading to our current progress are irreversible and could lead to depopulated
nations of a few lonely young people struggling to support vast numbers of
dependent senior citizens. They oppose further work to curb population growth.
They are wrong. The trends are not irreversible. The need instead is for renewed
commitment to the steps outlined at the 1994 International Conference on
Population and Development (ICPD).
Of the world's 6 billion people, more than 1 billion are teenagers, the
largest "youthquake" ever. (2) Now just entering their reproductive years,
their sheer numbers guarantee an enormous "momentum" of population
growth through 2050 and an urgent global need for reproductive health
information and services, even with a continued decline in fertility rates.
More than 95% of those teens live in less-developed nations (2) where
many governments are already struggling to meet current needs for social
and infrastructure services, education, jobs, family planning information,
and reproductive and other health care.
While 44% of the world's people (2.6 billion) live in the 61 nations where
women have fewer than 2.1 children each, these "total fertility rates" don't
give the full picture. A country's population growth rate includes migration
and longevity. Among those 61 nations, for example, 31 will experience
population declines by 2050, but population will rise in the other half,
because of their young population structures and migration patterns. (1)
Just to stay even with current living conditions, the world must somehow provide for 78
million more people every year - another Great Britain plus New York City - — for another
generation.
More than 840 million people, one in 7, do not have enough to eat. (3) Mostly, they are too
poor to pay for food, even with historically low prices. Clearly, the "Green Revolution" has not
reached many poor farmers, and in 75 nations, per capita food production has declined over
the last 15 years. (3)
Opportunities for women, key to lowering fertility rates, are being circumscribed rather than
expanded in Afghanistan and elsewhere.
Health care advances have not reached millions of people where resurgent disease is
challenging impoverished medical systems, especially in the developing world.
Rising urbanization has led to declining fertility, chiefly because of urban prosperity. But
nothing guarantees that prosperity will continue to rise as population does. And, most people
in poor nations still live in rural areas where birth rates remain high.
Developing nations pay 80% of the costs of family planning services themselves, relying on
industrialized nations for help with the rest. But that help has not always been forthcoming.
U.S. aid has been cut severely in recent years.
Any projection of depopulation in some countries ignores the likely migration from crowded
places. The world may change its appearance but it is in no danger of being depopulated.
The keys to further progress are obvious: the roles of women, whose options and opportunities in
every sphere of life must continue to expand; and the education and participation of young people,
women and men alike, in the changes necessary to construct a workable future. Their demand for
reliable and inexpensive family planning services, currently unmet in many crucial places, must be
satisfied on a continuing basis well into the next century.
Sources: (1) United Nations Population Division, "1998 Revision, World Population Estimates and Projections" (New York: Department of
Economic and Social Affairs, Nov. 28, 1998); (2) UNFPA, The State of World Population 1998 (New York, 1998); (3) UN Development
Programme, Human Development Report 1998 (New York: 1998)
December 1998
1999
NGOs and the Role of
DAY
OF BILLION
Civil Society
PEOPLE
global
population
O
ne of the many contributions of the 1994 International Conference on
Population and Development (ICPD) was increased visibility and participation
for civil society in all UN proceedings thereafter. Before the ICPD in Cairo,
the facts
non-governmental organizations (NGOs) had only an informal presence at best at
UN conclaves.
of life
In 1994, however, hundreds of NGOs took part in the ICPD as members of
delegations, activists and lobbyists, providing much of the language for the
Programme of Action. They helped set the agenda that focused clearly on improving
the quality of people's lives instead of on achieving demographic targets. Their work
was recognized in Programme language promoting NGO involvement in global
policymaking and implementation, the strongest such language ever to emerge from
a UN conference.
Many nations have reformed their population and family planning efforts in large
part due to NGO participation:
Most nations no longer accept targets, incentives or coercion, instead using
integrated approaches that make services, education and quality of care the
central elements.
India dropped numerical targets and is progressing on a major project in the
north that integrates family planning with maternal and child health services.
Several developing countries, particularly in Africa, are reorganizing reproductive
health programs so as to reach more young people and the unmarried.
NGOs have made substantial progress in networking for advocacy and lobbying:
In Europe, NGOs have forged an advocacy movement through formal and
informal alliances to build political support for the ICPD Programme in donor
countries as well as in developing nations.
Communication among NGOs and decisionmakers has increased in quality as
well as quantity in many countries, where NGOs are being invited more and
more to take part in policy debates.
NGO advocacy has shaped national population policy development and helped mobilize financial
resources in a number of donor and developing countries, including Denmark, the Netherlands,
India and Uganda.
NGOs have certain advantages over government agencies that allow them to design and implement
more innovative, flexible and responsive programs with extensive grassroots participation.
NGOs often have constituencies that are poorly served by government or hard to reach through
government channels.
NGOs may be more free to approach sensitive issues. In Pakistan, for example, an Islamic NGO
can discuss reproductive issues more openly than the government can.
NGOs' functions can vary according to need. They have helped establish sexual and reproductive
health as a movement, acted as watchdogs, set and monitored performance standards, become
donors and provided technical assistance, among other work.
The Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO) has monitored and documented
the promises each government has made at all UN conferences since Cairo. Their findings are publicly
available and posted on their World Wide Web internet site: www.wedo.org.
Future Needs and Challenges
NGOs need to strengthen their policy expertise and capacity for advocacy, especially in countries
where the political environment remains unreceptive to the ICPD Programme of Action.
NGO partnerships with government need strengthening in countries where governments still view
NGOs as unwelcome competitors for donor funds.
Governments need to increase their transparency in decision making and information, and to be more
open to NGO involvement in policy development. Such NGO involvement should be
institutionalized.
Governments need to modify cofinancing requirements, overhead limitations and other bureaucratic
procedures that constrain NGOs' effectiveness in advocating for population and reproductive health
programs and in implementing them.
December 1998
1999
Youth and Population Momentum
DAY
OF
PEOPLE
global
And 24, and their And 24, 24, and t number is rapidly expanding in many countries. It is critical
this is history's largest generation of young people between 15
that all societies address their education, health and employment needs. (1)
population
The reproductive behavior of these young people will determine the planet's future.
the facts
If they are enabled to realize their potential, they will be a real "demographic
of life
bonus" - an unprecedented bulge of human resources for future development.
Ending Discrimination Against Girls
Discrimination against girls and women is a persistent barrier to generational
achievement. Several national declarations and treaties have labeled it a violation of
human rights as well as a threat to development. Ending discrimination must be a
priority worldwide.
Discrimination against girls often begins before birth in the preference for sons,
and in too many places continues with denial of medical care and education and
with forced teen or even preteen marriage, sex and pregnancy.
Women may be restricted to the home, sexually and physically abused without
remedy, and denied rights to own or inherit property, to receive training or
credit, or to take part in political and social discourse.
Girls may be prepared by their societies only to be mothers, restricted in
education and employment. Boys may be prepared only to be providers and
heads of families, restricted in emotional, communication and caring skills. At
puberty, both girls and boys have specific needs that should be addressed.
Adolescents, more than other age groups, are exposed to reproductive health risks.
As the average age of marriage goes up worldwide, the period of sexual activity
before marriage is increasing. But young people are often denied the
information and the means they need to avoid unwanted pregnancy and sexually
transmitted diseases (STDs).
Of the 260 million women aged 15-19 worldwide, about 11% (29 million) lack
access to effective contraceptive protection. A majority of these (16.2 million)
are married and say they want to delay childbirth; 9.8 million are unmarried and
sexually active; 3.2 million are adolescents, both married and unmarried, who
use traditional methods. (2)
Half of all new HIV infections occur in people aged 15-24. The infection rates
among young women are higher than among young men. Marginalized young
people, such as street children, show higher infection rates than do better-off
young people. (2)
Providing Quality Information
In most of Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, North Africa and the Middle East,
more than 60% of adolescents (often more than 80%) have heard of a modern
method of family planning. (2) But that does not mean they always know how to use
it properly. Better communication about sexuality, gender relations, unwanted
pregnancy and STDs is essential if young people are to make responsible choices and
broaden their life options.
A survey of secondary school students in Kenya found that only one in three males and one in four
females knew that contraceptive pills had to be taken by the woman and not by the man. Even
fewer knew the pills had to be taken daily, not just before sex. (2)
In Latin America, surveys show that 44 to 76% of the pregnancies of young unmarried women are
unwanted. In Kenya, 74% of unmarried women aged 15-19 (and 47% of the married women)
report their current pregnancy unwanted. (2)
Many women suffering from an unwanted pregnancy seek abortion whether it is legal or not. Young
women are more likely to get an unsafe abortion because they often lack the money and the
information to get it done in a safe way. (2)
Families remain the strongest influence on adolescents' behavior and choices, but traditional sources
of sex and gender education - grandparents, teachers and community leaders - are losing influence
to modern media culture and urbanization. Teens see their elders' lives and priorities as less relevant to
their own. While teenagers and service providers may seek to avoid pregnancy and other consequences
of sexual activity, their elders may see sexual activity itself as the problem.
A tribal chief of southern Malawi responded this way to a sex education radio program: "A foreign
dress mode is something we can easily accept, but should we wholesale adopt everything foreign,
including shamelessly talking about sex in public?" Family and community leaders need to be
included in population policy decisionmaking so that the helpful effect of such programs is
understood.
Sex education does not increase promiscuity. Of 68 studies on family life and sex education in a
scientific review, 65 found no associated increases in sexual behavior. Of the 53 studies that
evaluated specific interventions, 21 found that young people taking part in such programs had
higher levels of abstinence, later start of sexual activity, higher use of contraceptives, fewer sexual
partners and/or reduced rates of STDs and unplanned pregnancy. (3)
Broadening Sex Education Beyond the Schoolroom
Sex education must not be restricted to school students. Not all young people are students, and in
some countries they are not even the majority.
Restricting sex education to secondary schools further reduces those reached, because the gender
gap in education is biggest in secondary school and a large percentage of girls will be missed. In
many countries, students may also enter primary school as teenagers and go no further. In sub-
Saharan Africa and South Asia, a majority of adolescents who are in school are in primary schools.
(4)
Millions of young people, many of them children, live on their own and/or on the streets. They are
more at risk than their peers. Special rehabilitation programs, including sex education and
reproductive health services, are needed to reach them.
Mass media campaigns have succeeded in addressing some reproductive health needs, such as
HIV/AIDS. Soap operas, comic books, posters, teenage magazines, drama and music are effective
ways to inform young people. Surveys show they are especially useful when combined with training
programs for young people who can then spread the word among their peers.
Sources: (1) UNFPA, State of the World Population 1998 (New York: UNFPA), P. 2; (2) Alan Guttmacher Institute, Into a New World
(Washington DC: 1998), pp. 24-29; (3) UNFPA, State of the World Population 1998 (New York: UNFPA), p. 31; (4) Ibid., p. 32; (5) IPPF,
Generations, 1998.
December 1998
1999
From Family Planning to
DAY
OF
Reproductive Health
PEOPLE
global
population
T
he 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD)
Programme of Action calls for an approach to reproductive health that is
comprehensive and client-centered. This consensus resulted from intense discussions
the facts
in the field among governments, policymakers and international donors.
of life
The ICPD or Cairo consensus process worked to build a bridge between
advocates for women and family planning organizations. The family planning
groups wanted to provide services in a more inclusive and empowering way.
Advocates realized that the ability to make responsible and informed choices
about sexual and reproductive health is both a condition and a vehicle for
improving the status of women.
Service providers worldwide, facing the spread of HIV/AIDS, found it
increasingly irresponsible to provide the means of family planning without
counseling clients on sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
The Cairo consensus rejected coercion in any form in reproductive health
services.
Implementing the Cairo Consensus
Ideally, reproductive health services should include: (1)
Family Planning
STD/AIDS Service
Counseling on:
Range/choice of methods
Prevention
Sex/sexuality education
Delayed childbirth for adolescents
Condom promotion/ distribution
Safe sex
Male responsibility
Treatment/referral/ screening
Male support
Attention to unmet need/demand
Prenatal screening (syphilis)
Women's support
Research on safety/side effects
Symptomatic case management
Parental/family support
Sterilization reversal
Adolescent treatment
Pre-/carly adolescence AIDS/ STDs
Implant removal
Identification of high risk-takers
Abortion
Quality services
Policy dialogue
Family planning/methods
Data collection
Sterilization
Pregnancy Care
Prenatal care
Abortion-related Services
Public Education on:
Tetanus toxoid
Management of complications
AIDS/STDs
Iron folate/iodine supplements
Post-abortion family planning
Violence
Safe delivery
Improved sex education and family
Gender discrimination
Access to cacsarean section
planning services where abortion is
Female genital mutilation
Access to blood transfusions
restricted
Legal matters
High-risk birth screening
Nutrition
Transport
Infertility Services
Sexual/reproductive rights
Complications detection/
Prevention and management
Unintended pregnancy
management/referral
Smoking/substance abuse
Postpartum care
Provider Training
Postpartum contraception
Technical competence
Management Information System
Gender sensitivity
(MIS) for male/female clients
Breastfeeding
Adolescent nutrition
As a family planning method
Training for physicians, nurses,
Lactation management
midwives and traditional birth
For newborn/child care
attendants
Key Factors in Implementation of the ICPD
Advocacy: Political will and commitment are needed at every level. The support of community leaders
is effective if not essential for the success of reproductive health programs.
In South Africa, reproductive rights are now part of the constitution.
In Uganda, government officials implemented the new system with support from community and
religious leaders.
Among the Sabiny people in northern Uganda, elders were included in a campaign to eradicate
female genital mutilation.
Program development: The process can be as important as the outcome. Those involved should range
from grassroots organizations and client representatives through service providers and policymakers.
Setting priorities: Providers may need to choose between providing basic services for everybody in an
area or a broad range of services for fewer people. They may need to make crucial choices at the clinic
level - for example, whether or not to provide IUDs where no screening is available for reproductive
tract infections. Clients' involvement is essential, as their priorities are not necessarily the same as
those of service providers. A clinic in Indonesia, for example, learned that clients saw information
supported by drawings on family planning as more important than blood pressure testing, which was
available at the market for little money.
Infrastructure, referral and logistics: Reproductive health providers function properly only with a
guaranteed regular supply of drugs and equipment. Clients lose interest when they make time and
effort to visit a clinic, only to find nothing available for them. Referrals can direct clients to other
providers. For example, birth assistants in some areas have been trained to diagnose complications at
an early stage of pregnancy.
Training: Service providers need continuous training and support to face their new challenges. Issues to
be covered include quality and continuity of care, technical competence, sensitivity to client needs, and
commitment to informed choice.
Monitoring and evaluation: As for any new concept, monitoring and evaluation at every level will ensure
that follow-up visits are useful for clients and that timely Programme adjustments can be made.
Sources: (1) This list was compiled from documents of the International Planned Parenthood Federation; USAID; the World Bank;
UNFPA; The International Projects Assistance League; International Women's Health Coalition; the Older Women's League; Population
Action International; the Rockefeller Foundation; and the World Health Organization.
December 1998
1999
Poverty, Population and
DAY
OF
Development
PEOPLE
global
population
F
ew people now deny the link between economic development and slower
population growth. But development is neither an automatic product of slower
population growth nor vice versa. Instead, family planning, reproductive health care
the facts
and development programs can work together to reduce the rate of population
growth and improve the quality of life.
of life
Sustainable development must include the following:
Provision of reproductive health care reduces child and maternal mortality rates,
which encourages smaller families, later childbearing and planned spacing of
births.
Investment in education for women and in expanding their access to credit,
training, property and legal rights gives them options for achieving status and
satisfaction in life through more means than childbearing. It also liberates their
economic potential.
Smaller family size releases resources that individuals can then invest in work,
health care, education, or other economic activity. Fewer children to educate
means higher achievement levels for all of them and a smaller total bill.
In developing nations, 800 million people are unemployed or under-
employed - a number greater than the entire current workforce of the
industrialized countries. (1) Those nations must create 40 million new jobs per
year just to stay at this level. (2) They also need to guarantee the health and
education of their record number of young people (one billion teenagers in
2000) in order to generate prosperity and to care for the growing number of the
elderly, and for future generations.
Globalizing markets bring benefits and dangers:
A village in rural China is now as likely to be linked to Hollywood movies and
advertising on a community TV as it is to be linked to the next town by road or
railroad. Expectations for the future are changing accordingly, increasing
pressure on governments for advanced development.
Every nation now receives a constant stream of new products, often produced
far away in unknown conditions. Advertising, now a $435 billion business (3), is
the predominant source of product information; consumer safety laws or
movements are absent or rudimentary in many developing nations. Unfamiliar
products have often brought dangers: tobacco from the New World, alcohol to
the Americas, infant formula to areas where no clean water exists.
Developing nations seeking income are vulnerable to the "dumping" of commercial imports that
may be hazardous such as expired medications, toxic wastes, contaminated food or pesticides
banned in the country of origin. Impoverished areas are also the most likely to be the site of
polluting industries and waste dumps that threaten their health and livelihoods.
Products grown for export purposes may be capital-intensive cash crops, replacing or crowding out
those that make up the local food supply. Yet the poor often cannot afford imported replacement
foods.
Disparities continue and investment is needed:
In 1960, the richest 20% of humanity claimed 70% of all income; by 1997 their share had risen to
86%. Meanwhile the poorest fifth saw their share fall from 2.3% to just 1.3%. The three richest
people in the world have assets that together exceed the combined gross domestic product of the
48 least-developed nations. (3)
Of the 4.4 billion people in developing nations, a fifth have no access to modern health services of
any kind. A quarter do not have adequate housing. A third have no access to clean water. Fully 60%
lack access to safe sewers. (4)
Attention to the needs of the poor for basic sanitary and transportation services, education, access
to productive land and job opportunities will reduce pollution, resource use and stress on the
environment. Institutional solutions are needed for management of common global resources of
air, water, fisheries, forests and pasture, and for controlling emissions and wastes.
Some of the gains in health, education and nutrition during the 1960s and 1970s have since been
reversed. In Africa, the proportion of malnourished children rose from 5% to 25% between 1983
and 1993, and primary school enrollment fell from 79% to 67%.(5) The average African household
today consumes 20 percent less than it did 25 years ago.(4)
Sources: (1) International Labor Organization, World of Work, (Washington DC: 1998); and United Nations Population Fund, The State of
World Population 1998 (New York: 1998); (2) Population Action International, Why Population Matters, (Washington DC: 1996); (3)
United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report 1998 (New York, 1998), p. 63; (4) UNDP, Human Development
Report 1998, P. 30; (5) UNDP, Human Development Report 1998, p.2; (6) Lawrence H. Summers, US Government, statement to members
of the African Development Bank, Abidjan, May 1993.
December 1998
1999
Population and the
OF
Environment
PEOPLE
global
population
T
he he link between population growth and environmental impact seems obvious
at first glance: more people consume more resources, damage more of the earth
and generate more waste. Humans are a force of nature. As nations develop, they
the facts
increase consumption. This simple reasoning is true as far as it goes, but the larger
picture is more complex.
of life
A very small proportion of the population consumes the majority of the world's
resources. The richest fifth consumes 86% of all goods and services and
produces 83% of all carbon dioxide emissions, while the poorest fifth consumes
1.3% of goods and services and accounts for 3% of C02 output. (1)
Per capita municipal waste grew 30% in developed nations since 1975 and is
now two to five times the level in developing nations. (1)
An average American's environmental impact is 30 to 50 times that of the
average citizen of a developing country such as India. (1)
The need is to balance the requirements of a growing population with the necessity
of conserving earth's natural assets.
Human action has transformed between one-third and one-half of the entire land
surface of the earth. We have lost more than one-quarter of the planet's birds, and
two-thirds of the major marine fisheries are fully exploited, over-exploited or
depleted. (2)
Every 20 minutes, the world adds another 3,500 human lives but loses one or
more entire species of animal or plant life - at least 27,000 species per year.
This is a rate and scale of extinction that has not occurred in 65 million years. (3)
Spreading deserts and declining water tables in a third of the planet are
contributing to famine, social unrest and migration.
Two thirds of the world's population lives within 100 miles of an ocean, inland
sea or freshwater lake: 14 of the world's 15 largest megacities (10 million or
more people) are coastal. Their impacts include growing loads of sewage and
other waste, the drainage of wetlands and development of beaches, and
destruction of prime fish nurseries. (4)
Technological advances can mitigate some of the impact of population growth, and
market mechanisms raise prices for some diminishing resources, triggering
substitution, conservation, recycling and technical innovation so as to prevent
depletion.
But market systems often subsidize industries such as logging, mining and grazing without tallying
environmental costs. No market considers commonly held resources such as groundwater levels or
atmospheric and ocean quality. Nor do markets consider earth's "services," such as regulation of
climate, detoxification of pollutants or provision of pollinators, much less questions of human
equity and social justice. When water quality is degraded, well-off people can buy bottled water,
for example, but poorer people cannot.
A world conclave of 58 national Academies of Science agreed in 1993 that unchecked
consumption and rapid population growth are likely to overwhelm technological improvements in
affecting the environment. (5)
Clearly, the greatest environmental threat comes from both the wealthiest billion people, who consume
the most and generate the most waste, and from the poorest billion, who may damage their meager
resource base in the daily struggle to avoid starvation. In addition, the billions in between are doing
their best to increase their standard of living, in part through increased consumption.
Although the world's supply of water remains constant, per-capita water consumption is rising
twice as fast as world population. Humanity now uses more than half of the available surface fresh
water on earth (2); at least 300 million people live in regions that already have severe water
shortages. By 2025, the number could be 3 billion. (6)
The world's forests have shrunk from 11.4 to 7.3 square kilometers per 1,000 people since 1970.
The loss is concentrated in developing countries, mostly to meet the demand for wood and paper
by the industrialized world. Wild species are becoming extinct 50 to 100 times faster than they
naturally would. (1)
Over the last 50 years, 12% of the planet's soils have been severely degraded. That's nearly
2 billion hectares, the size of China and India combined. (1)
The global emission of carbon dioxide, a "greenhouse gas" most researchers say causes global
warming and disruption in weather patterns, has quadrupled since 1950, largely from deforestation
and the burning of fossil fuels. The atmosphere now contains 30% more CO2 than at the
beginning of the industrial revolution. (2) Where the industrialized world produces 60% of it
today, the developing world will be producing 60% of it by 2015. (1)
Sources: (1) United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report 1998 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998);
(2) Jane Lubchenco, past president, American Association for Advancement of Science, speech: "Women, Population and Science in the
New Millennium," Dec. 1, 1998, AAAS, Washington DC. (3) Ken Strom, Population and Habitat in the New Millennium, National Audubon
Society and The Global Stewardship Initiative (Boulder CO 1998); (4)Population Action International, Why Population Matters (Washington
DC: PAI, 1996); (5)Report, Population Summit of the World's Scientific Academies (Washington DC: The National Academy Press, 1993);
(6)Simon, Paul, Tapped Out (New York: Welcome Rain Publishers, October 1998).
December 1998
1999
Consumption and Resources
DAY
OF
global
In 1994, the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD)
saw that industrialized nations' level of consumption of natural resources was
population
unsustainable worldwide. One U.S. citizen was consuming 30 times what one
citizen of India did; developed nations were 20% of the world's population yet used
two-thirds of all resources and generated 75% of the world's pollution and waste.
the facts
(1) World consumption patterns were undermining the environmental resource
of life
base.
Yet the 1 billion people living in absolute poverty require increased consumption so
as to alleviate their malnutrition, disease and illiteracy.
The ICPD agreed that countries should reduce and eliminate unsustainable patterns
of production and consumption so as to meet people's needs without compromising
future generations.
Such changes would conserve resources long enough for new policy options to be
implemented that would contribute to human development.
Consumption disparities are increasingly stark:
With world population at 6 billion and rising, the richest 20% of humanity
consumes 86% of all goods and services used, while the poorest fifth consumes
just 1.3%. The wealthy consume 45% of all meat and fish, use 58% of all
energy produced and own 87% of the vehicles.(2)
Meanwhile, 2.6 billion people lack basic sanitation, 1.5 billion have no
access to clean water, 1.1 billion lack adequate housing and nearly 900
million have no access to modern health services of any kind. (2)
According to the United Nations, Americans and Europeans together spend
$17 billion a year on pet food, $4 billion more than the estimated yearly
additional amount needed to provide everyone in the world with basic
health and nutrition. (2)
Production techniques are eroding the resource base:
The burning of fossil fuels has almost doubled since 1950. Consumption of
fresh water has doubled since 1960, and wood consumption (for household
and industry use) is 40% higher than 25 years ago. (2)
Commercial fishing is threatened worldwide by over-fishing: one-quarter of
all fish stocks are listed as "depleted" or in danger of being depleted;
another 44% are being fished "at the biological limit." This is driven by export
demand for animal feed and oils, not by food needs, but it strains the
primary protein source for nearly a billion people in 40 developing nations. (2)
Producing a quarter-pound of hamburger requires 100 gallons of water, 1.2 lbs. of feed grain and
energy equal to a cup of gasoline, causing the loss of 1.25 lbs. of topsoil and producing
greenhouse gas emissions equal to a 6-mile drive in a typical U.S. automobile. Americans
each consume 260 lbs. of meat per year on average, most of it hamburger; the average in
Bangladesh is 6.5 lbs. (2)
The trend is toward more consumption worldwide:
Global spending on advertising, which stimulates consumption, multiplied nearly sevenfold
from 1950 to 1990, when the total was $257 billion, or $48 for each person on the planet. It
has nearly doubled again since then, to $435 billion, and is increasing faster than incomes or
population, especially in developing nations. (2)
Surveys of U.S. households found that the income desired to fulfill consumption aspirations
doubled between 1986 and 1994. (2) The definition of "necessity" is changing worldwide.
Increased consumption is not producing a parallel increase in happiness. The National
Opinion Research Center of the University of Chicago has found that the proportion of
Americans who say they are "very happy" has remained at about one-third since 1957,
although personal consumption has more than doubled.(4)
Sources: (1) United Nations Population Fund, Population and the Environment: The Challenges Ahead (New York: United Nations, 1991);
and R. Paul Shaw, "The Impact of Population Growth on the Environment: The Debate Heats Up," Environmental Impact Assessment Review,
March-June 1992; (2) United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report 1998 (New York: Oxford University Press,
1998) p. 5; (3) Alan Durning, Ecological Wakes: The Story of Six Everyday Objects (Seattle: Northwest Environment Watch, 1994); (4) Alan
Durning, How Much is Enough? The Consumer Society and the Fate of the Earth (New York: W.W. Norton, 1992)
December 1998
1999
Journalist's Notebook:
DAY OF
What's in a Word?
PEOPLE
global
population
WDemographic language when it comes to population terminology.
is often freighted by controversial associations with
geopolitics, sex, power, gender, race, religion and personal rights.
the facts
"Population control" is a prime case in point. The term is now out of favor with
of life
experts in the field, because it implies force - a negative thing to most. To some it
evokes men trying to control women, industrialized nations trying to weaken the
power of developing nations' increasing numbers, or whites trying to reduce the
future numbers of people of color.
To stress the voluntary nature of the actions sought, experts use terms like
"stemming," "stabilizing" or "slowing" population growth. Similarly, "family planning"
is preferred to "birth control," a term that dates back to the time of Margaret
Sanger's crusade for women's right to use contraceptives.
"Overpopulation" is also a misnomer. If we have too many people, who are the
unneeded? Developing nations and the poor suspect that the wealthy may be
referring to them. Besides, a newborn can represent not only a new mouth to feed
but two new hands with which to build and a new mind to create the future.
The subject of debate is better described as "global population issues" or "population
policy," in order to stress the need to assess human numbers in the context of
desired living conditions and development.
"Immigration" is taking on negative connotations in the United States and in western
Europe as a globalizing economy and population crowding bring rising numbers of
newcomers who could threaten jobs, social services and the predominant culture. As
the new wave is largely nonwhite, some whites fear that immigration will dilute their
power.
In the developing world, however, "migration" tends to connote an admirable
ambition and courage to seek work or a better life away from home. Many
immigrants migrate again, or return home when conditions change or they achieve
their purposes. More than 90% of all births now take place in developing nations, a
fact that helps explain relative attitudes toward trans-national human traffic.
Doomsday scenarios are passé. Thomas Malthus' dire warnings of rampant disease and
famine sparked talk of "triage" and "lifeboats" to describe the coming necessity of
deciding who should be allowed to live in a world eaten out of house and home by
too many people.
The "population bomb" is somewhat discredited. Growth rates peaked in the early 1970s, and we are
now living in that explosion's fallout: global numbers doubled from 3 billion in the 1960s to 6 billion
in mid-1999, and continue to rise but at a slower rate. Improved health services have managed to keep
the increased billions alive, though often in a deprived state. Population specialists now concentrate on
"quality of life" of the millions of newborns who will be hard-pressed to find education, health care and
work needed for a meaningful life.
Today, "population momentum" from the 1960s baby boom continues to drive human numbers upward.
Growth will continue for at least another generation as the new millennium's record 1 billion teenagers
enter their reproductive years. The question now is: when will we achieve "population stabilization,"
where growth stops?
The answer depends upon whether commitments that the world's nations made at the ICPD in 1994
are fully honored: to programs furthering "birth spacing," "reproductive health" and "women's rights";
boosting "sustainable development; and improving the earth's "carrying capacity" and the human
"quality of life." These terms stress not sheer population numbers but the broader vision of global
well-being.
"Acceptable risk" describes the health risks associated with many modern contraceptives, while
"relative risk" compares that small danger to, say, riding a motorbike in city traffic. The definitions of
each are under challenge from women's groups, who note that all but two modern methods (condoms
and male vasectomies) make women take the risk.
Not Just Words
It's not just political correctness to watch your population language. Many of yesterday's terms were
rooted in detached calculations that dehumanized people and the process of family-building. People
universally resist bean-counter reckoning in deciding the size of their families. Population specialists
have moved beyond mere number-crunching to understand what population increase means to
individuals - and this change in perspective has changed policy and language.
Most governments in developing countries have adopted family planning policies in an effort to balance
their national populations with available resources. They have shouldered two-thirds of the costs
involved, asking industrialized nations to help with the rest. The term "commitment" involves not only
political will but the provision of human and material resources as well. It is this commitment that is at
stake today.
December 1998
Saturday, February 6, 1999
8:00 am
WHEELS UP Andrews AFB
[flight time: 7 hours, 25 minutes, +6 hours]
9:25 pm
WHEELS DOWN Schipol
NOTE: Drive from Schipol to the Hague is approximately 45 minutes - 1 hour
Sunday, February 7, 1999
2:30 pm
EMBASSY EVENT - TENTATIVE
4:00 pm
ADDRESS UN Population Forum's NGO Conference
Netherlands Congress Center, The Hague
7:00 pm
RECEPTION at Ambassador's Residence for American Delegates
Monday, February 8, 1999
10:00 am
KEYNOTE Address to UN Population Forum
Netherlands Congress Center, The Hague
11:45 am
COURTESY CALL with Prime Minister Kok
Het Torrentje, The Hague
12:30 pm
LUNCHEON for First Ladies - TENTATIVE
Prime Minister's Residence: Catshuis
3:00 pm
GLOBE SCHOOL Visit - TENTATIVE
4:30 pm
ROUNDTABLE with International and Dutch female leaders - ⑉ TENTATIVE
7:00 pm
RECEPTION hosted by Dutch government - TENTATIVE
8:30 pm
WHEELS UP Schipol
[flight time: 8 hours, 45 minutes, -6 hours]
11:15 pm
WHEELS DOWN Andrews AFB
WHO-Beo
Was Cumes Tubrenal meeting
Gabe McDonald
Nafes sadiq - UNFPA -
Dutch Women Leaders
informal meeting
(8)
meeting with Prine minister
fust Ladies Lunden (?) drop by
Visit to school - drop-by
reception fn american delegator
receptn fn Comf. speakers
Photo-op was/ youth when go to NGO forum Enbassy meet street
NGO form 4:30-5 Sun.
(15 minutes)
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BUDGET PROPOSAL TO REINSTATE FUNDING
NEW YORK 22 January - The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) today welcomed
an announcement by: United States First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and Vice President Al Gore
that President Clinton's fiscal year 2000 budget proposes a $25 million voluntary contribution to
UNFPA.
The First Lacy was speaking with Vice President Al Gore in Washington at the unveiling of
a series of new stepsito prevent unintended pregnancy, including a multi-million dollar initiative to
ensure access to safé, high quality family planning services.
"We are very encouraged by this news," said Dr. Nafis Sadik, the Executive Director of
UNFPA. "This money, if approved, will help women all over the world. It will give many people
in developing countries the right that Americans take for granted - the right to individual choice in
regard to the size and spacing of the family."
"It will strengthen population programmes aimed at providing voluntary, high-quality
reproductive health services, including family planning, assisted childbirth and STD, HIV/AIDS
prevention to women and men who would otherwise not have access to services," she said.
"The restoration of U.S. funding to UNFPA would send a strong signal that the United States
continues to be committed to supporting internationally-agreed approaches to population problems,"
Sadik said.
In Octoberof last year, the United States Congress eliminated funding to UNFPA. United
States funding for UNFPA in fiscal year 1998 was $20 million. UNFPA's total resources in 1997
were $290 million
Hillary Rodham Clinton is a keynote speaker at The Hague Forum, an operational review of
the implementation of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD)
Programme of Action, which took place in Cairo in 1994 and at which Vice President Al Gore was
a keynote speaker?
The Hague Forum will take place from 8 to12 February in The Hague, Netherlands. Details
about The Hague Forum and Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly, which marks
the culmination of the ICPD review process, are available at UNFPA's Web site at www.unfpa.org
Note To Editors
UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, is the largest internationally funded source of
population assistance to developing countries. The Fund, which began operations in 1969, is a
subsidiary orgamof the United Nations General Assembly.
UNFPA assists developing countries to improve reproductive health and family planning
services on the basis of individual choice, and to formulate population policies in support of efforts
towards sustainable development.
For more Information contact Corrie Shanahan Tel: 212-297-5023 E-mail: [email protected]
or Abubakar Dungus Tel: 212-297-5031 E-mail: [email protected]
1999
About the Cairo Consensus &
Forum
DAY OF OBILLION
The Hague Forum
The Cairo PEOPLE
GIODAI
community will be engaged in a five-year review of the
population
Action. Dubbed "Cairo Plus Five" or "ICPD + 5," this process
will assess the progress made to date, examine the obstacles remaining, and produce
the facts
practical recommendations aimed at making the conference's 20-year goals a reality.
of life
About the Cairo Consensus
The International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), held in
Cairo in September 1994, was a watershed for global population and development
initiatives.
Countries now accept that population concerns are at the heart of sustainable
development strategies. Rapid population growth and high fertility hold back
development. They help to perpetuate poverty. They make it hard for countries to
concentrate on the future, because resources are soaked up by present needs.
But the Cairo conference also put an end to the concept of "population control."
The conference recognized that smaller families and slower population growth
depend not on "control" but on free choice - the idea, borne out by 30 years of
experience, that most women, given the choice, will have fewer children than their
mothers did.
Choice means access to reproductive health care, including a range of family
planning information and services, but it doesn't stop there. Women and men must
feel that the services available and the quality of care meet their reproductive health
needs.
The Cairo agenda also means more attention to education for women and girls. It
means leadership, encouraging family and community support for women's choices.
It means more women active in the community, in government at all levels and in
the private sector. It means protection for women's legal rights. It means, in three
words, empowerment, equity and equality. It is a powerful idea. It is an idea whose
time has come.
The ICPD's 20-year programme is ambitious but practical. It is the outcome of
three years' hard negotiation, and was agreed to by all 179 countries, rich and poor,
north and south, industrialized and developing, that attended the Cairo conference.
By 2015, it calls for:
Universal access to quality and affordable reproductive health services,
including family planning and sexual health;
Significant reductions in infant, child and maternal mortality;
Broad-based measures to ensure gender equity and equality and the empowerment of women;
Universal access to primary education; and
Closing the "gender gap" in education.
About The Hague Forum in 1999
The five year review and appraisal of the implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action provides
non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other elements of civil society with an opportunity to
take stock of what has been achieved since 1994 - what has worked, what obstacles have been
encountered and where to go from here.
An international forum - - The Hague Forum (HF) - will be convened at the Netherlands Congress
Centre (NCC) in The Hague from 8-12 February 1999.
Immediately before The Hague Forum, an NGO Forum and a Youth Forum will take place at the
Netherlands Congress Center in The Hague. A Parliamentarians' meeting will also be held in The
Hague. The dates for the NGO Forum and the Youth Fora are 6-7 February 1999.
The Cairo Plus Five process will not end in The Hague, but will continue at the 32ⁿᵈ Session of the
Commission on Population and Development (CPD). The CPD session is the preparatory meeting to
the United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) that will convene in June 1999 to
review implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action.
NGO Forum Secretariat
For registration forms and extensive information about the NGO Forum, concurrent Youth Forum,
and related activities
Go to: http://www.ngoforum.org
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
For information on the Hague Forum and other U.N. activities related to ICPD + 5
Go to: http://www.unfpa.org/ICPD/ICPD.HTM
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UNFPA Media Services Team
Corrie Shanahan, Senior Information Officer Tel: 212-297-5023
Bill Ryan, Editor
Tel: 212-297-5279
Abubakar Dungus, Information Officer
Tel: 212-297-5031
Jesper Jensen, Information Officer
Tel: 212-297-5040
Radha Bhattacharji, speech writer
Tel: 212-297-5009
Dova Levin, secretary
Tel: 212-297-5022
Emails: [email protected] except [email protected]
Fax: 212-557-6416
PRE-HAGUE
January 12 - Press lunch for Dr Sadik in New York to brief UN journalists on
Hague Forum and ICPD+5 process.
Press Kits distributed to UNFPA field offices and to developing country
journalists who have attended UNFPA media seminars in the past.
All relevant information is being posted on UNFPA Website, including link to
press kit materials; the conference paper will also be available shortly.
Ongoing - contacting US and European media to brief on Hague Forum and
forward media accreditation forms.
ACCREDITATION
Details of how to apply for media accreditation have been distributed to US,
European and Asian journalists; UN journalists; UN information centres:
UNFPA/UNDP offices.
Details and application forms available at website at
www.unfpa.org/ICPD/hague.htm
Applications for accreditation screened and processed by UN media
accreditation unit.
Registration of media at Hague will begin at 3pm on Friday in main
registration area.
Unfortunately UNFPA is not able to help with hotel rooms for journalists at
The Hague Forum. Information on hotel rooms can be obtained from: The
Hague Forum, c/o Expo & Hoc, PO Box 11632, 2502 AP, The Hague,
Netherlands, Tel: +31-70-3766733 Fax: +31-70-4272770.
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Media Seminar
Saturday 6 February at NCC, 10:00 am to 3.00 pm; Mondriaan Hall;
Open to all accredited media.
UNFPA is sponsoring 20 journalists from developing countrues to attend media
seminar and Hague Forum.
Topics of seminar will include:
1998 Revision, World Population Estimates and Projections
Evolution of Population Policy
Aids & Population
ICPD+5 Process / Conference Paper
Gender
Reproductive Health
Generations - Of Youth and Age
Financing the Future - Funding and ICPD+5
Final list of topics and panelists to be posted. Will be made available on website.
Media Facilities
Ruysdael Foyer - Press Lounge
TV monitor of plenary
12 PC's; 10 laptop outlets; 2 Printers
Work areas, desks
Payphones
Coffee Machine
All phone lines in this area are ISDN lines.
Press Kits and other background information will be displayed in this area.
Daily news releases, updates and upcoming events etc will be posted here.
Press Conference timetable posted here.
Media services team offices located in Room Ruysdael 3+4,
Providing:
Daily updates for internet
News releases which will be distributed by fax via London
Interview facilities, briefings etc
UNTV, providing coverage of Forum, camera team; room Ruysdael 1 - Video
edit and record suites.
UNTV will provide TV agencies Reuters/APTN etc with daily rushes.
UN Radio sending three people English/French/Spanish
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Press Conferences
Opening and Closing press conferences - Rembrandt Hall
Daily press conferences - Ruysdael 2 room.
Daily press conference room can be booked for press conferences by contacting
Corrie Shanahan at UNFPA, details above.
Goodwill Ambassadors
The following UNFPA Goodwill Ambassadors and Face to Face campaign
spokespeople will be at the Hague. They will be filming for their own TV
documentaries. They will be accompanied by Walter Coddington.
Goedele Liekens - Belgium
Kattis Ahlstrom - Sweden
Xavier Sarda - Spain
Mikko Kuustorien - Finland
Magenta Devine - UK
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8:00 am WHEELS UP Andrews AFB
[flight time: 7 hours, 25 minutes, +6 hours]
9:25 pm WHEELS DOWN Schipol
NOTE: Drive from Schipol to the Hague is approximately 45 minutes - 1 hour
Sunday, February 7, 1999
2:30 pm EMBASSY EVENT - TENTATIVE
4:00 pm ADDRESS UN Population Forum's NGO Conference
Netherlands Congress Center, The Hague
7:00 pm RECEPTION at Ambassador's Residence for American Delegates
Monday, February 8, 1999
10:00 am KEYNOTE Address to UN Population Forum
Netherlands Congress Center, The Hague
11:45 am COURTESY CALL with Prime Minister Kok
Het Torrentje, The Hague
12:30 pm LUNCHEON for First Ladies - TENTATIVE
Prime Minister's Residence: Catshuis
3:00 pm
GLOBE SCHOOL Visit - TENTATIVE
4:30 pm
ROUNDTABLE with International and Dutch female leaders -
TENTATIVE
7:00 pm RECEPTION hosted by Dutch government - TENTATIVE
8:30 pm
WHEELS UP Schipol
[flight time: 8 hours, 45 minutes, -6 hours]
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Subject: UNFPA medía Plan
Date: Wed, 20, Jan 1999 08:49:03 -0500
From: Corrie Shanahan <[email protected]>
Organization: UNFPA
To: [email protected]
Toby
Good to talk with you yesterday - pls advise if you receive this.
Attached is a word. doc with an outline of UNFPA's media plan for the
Hague Forum.
There is much information at www.unfpa.org
Talk to you soon.
Best regards
Corrie
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Hilversum, 16 Januari '99
Dear Mrs.M.Berry,
Thank you so much for your reply to our request for an interview with Mrs.Clinton on the
occasion of her visit to The Netherlands. Of course we understand that her time in
The Netherlands is limited, therefore we thought that it might be possible to do an interview
in Washington, before she departs for The Netherlands. Naturally we could come to your
Capitol at any moment.
We are committed to covering the conference in depth and still would very much like for Mrs.
Clinton to adress the Dutch people about the issues that are being discussed at the 'The Hague
Forum'. It is therefore our hope that an interview could take place in Washington at the
convenience of Mrs. Clinton.
Thank you again so much for your consideration.
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Hague Forum Media Accreditation Procedures
http://www.unfpa.org/ICPD/media.htm
[email protected]
Dorent Hotel
272-291-5023 272-557-6416 fax
Dept of State
The Hague Forum
Jim Calhoun
ICPD+5
The United Nations General Assembly
Special Session on the International Conference on
Population and Development (ICPD)
30 June - 2 July 1999
THE HAGUE FORUM
to Review Implementation of the Programme of Action of the
International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD)
The Hague, Netherlands, 8-12 February 1999
PROCEDURES TO APPLY FOR MEDIA ACCREDITATION
Bona fide representatives of the mass media -- press, photo, radio, television and film -- will
be accredited to cover The Hague Forum to Review Implementation of the Programme of
Action of the International Conference on Population and Development. The Forum, which
is organized by the United Nations Population Fund and hosted by the Government of the
Netherlands, will be held at the Netherlands Congress Centre (NCC), The Hague, on 8-12
February 1999. This accreditation will also be valid for the NGO Forum and the Youth
Forum in the same venue on 6-7 February 1999.
(A Parliamentarians' Forum hosted by the Netherlands' Parliament, will be held on 4-6
February 1999 at The Ridderzaal, The Hague; see separate accreditation details below.)
Completed application forms must be accompanied by a letter of assignment, issued on
official letterhead and signed by the Editor or Bureau Chief. They should be mailed or
faxed before 29 January 1999 to:
UNITED NATIONS
Media Accreditation and Liaison Unit
Media Division
Department of Public Information
Room S-250
New York, NY 10017
Fax: (212) 963-4642
Click here for an application form (also available as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file).
Applications will not be acknowledged. Passes will be issued at the Media Registration desk
at the Netherlands Congress Centre, Churchill Plein 10, The Hague, starting at 3 p.m. on
Friday, 5 February 1999, on presentation of two forms of photo ID (passport, official
national press pass, driver's licence, work ID, etc.).
Please note: Application forms will be considered ONLY if accompanied by a letter of
assignment. INCOMPLETE APPLICATIONS WILL NOT BE PROCESSED. Accreditation
is free of charge.
Journalists wishing to attend the Paliamentarians' Forum should email or fax their details to
Mr. Shiv Khare at International Forum of Parliamentarians, Fax: +662-246-8827; E-mail:
[email protected]. Passes for the Parliamentarians' Forum only will be issued on
Wednesday 3 February, from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Novotel Hotel, The Hague on presentation
of two forms of photo ID. These passes are valid for the Parliamentarians' Forum only.
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[21 Dec 1998] : NOTE TO CORRESPOND
21 December 1998
Press Release
NOTE TO CORRESPONDENTS APPLICATION FORM FOR MEDIA ACCREDITATION TO
THE HAGUE FORUM AVAILABLE ON UNFPA WEBSITE
NEW YORK, 21 December (UNFPA) Government delegations from over 180 countries will be
present at The Hague Forum, to be held from 8 to 12 February to review progress on implementation of
the Programme of Action adopted by the 1994 Cairo International Conference on Population and
Development (ICPD) and recommend further steps to be taken.
The Cairo Conference was a watershed for global population and development initiatives. Countries now
accept that rapid population growth, high fertility and gender inequality hold back development and help
to perpetuate poverty. The conference recognized that the key to smaller families and slower population
growth is empowerment and free choice, not demographic targets. Most women, given the choice, will
have fewer children than their mothers did. Choice means access to reproductive health care, including
family planning.
Invited speakers at The Hague Forum include: Hillary Rodham Clinton, First Lady of the United States;
Louise Fréchette, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations; Dr. Nafis Sadik, Executive Director
of the United Nations Population Fund; Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, Director-General of the World
Health Organization; James Gustave Speth, Administrator of the United Nations Development
Programme; Mary Robinson, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights; and Dr. Peter Piot,
Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).
Media accreditation application forms to The Hague Forum and other information about the event are
available at the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) website at www.unfpa.org/ICPD/hague.htm.
For additional information, call Corrie Shanahan at UNFPA New York, tel: (212) 297-5023; fax: (212)
557-6416 or e-mail: [email protected]. Information about NGO, Youth and Parliamentarians'
Forums, which are also taking place in The Hague, is also available at the site.
Although the UNFPA will not be able to help with hotel rooms for journalists at The Hague, information
on hotel rooms can be obtained from: The Hague Forum, c/o Expo & Hoc, P.O, Box 11632, 2502 AP,
The Hague, Netherlands, tel: +31-70-3766733; Fax: +31-70-4272770.
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EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA
Lange Voorhout 102
2514 EJ The Hague
The Netherlands
Executive Office
Fax
(31) (70) 310-9322
Telephone (31) (70) 310-9318
DATE: January 8, 1999
No. of Pages: Cover +3
TO:
Ms. Melanne Verweer
FAX NO.:
202/456-6244
FROM:
Ambassador Cynthia P. Schneider CPS by COP
SUBJECT: FLOTUS Schedule in the Netherlands
Here is a revised draft schedule. I hope that it will appeal. We have tried to put together a good
combination of business, pleasure and interesting people.
I am hoping to be able to cybercast the John Adams Institute Roundtable with Dutch female leaders. If
there is any way you can give me some indication of interest (or not) in this idea by my OOB Tuesday
morning, that would be extremely helpful. Tuesday I will be hosting a lunch for 8 potential technological
sponsors for cybercasting the John Adams Institute's events. Needless to say, I have said nothing about
the First Lady, but if I could, I suspect they would volunteer on the spot.
Please let me know your reaction to the draft schedule. Of course, we will make any changes or
adjustments you would like - just let us know.
FROM:
SENSITIVE
Visit of Hillary Rodham Clinton to the Netherlands
February 6-9, 1999
Draft Schedule
Saturday, February 6:
-- Arrive at Valkenburg Airport. Motorcade to Ambassador's Residence.
-- Morning: Private tour of Mauritshuis (View of Delft; Girl with Pearl Earring;
Rembrandt's Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp).
-- Free Time
courtsy call on kok
-- Afternoon: Roundtable discussion at Ambassador's residence with international
women's leaders. Possible participants include (1) leaders visiting The Hague in
conjunction with Israeli-Palcstinian "Engendering Peace" meeting (Frene Ginwala,
Speaker of the South African Parliament; Elisabeth Rehn, Special Representative to the
UN Secretary-General; Rita Suessmuth, former speaker of the German Bundestag, Hanan
Ashrawi, leader of Palestinian delegation; and Naomi Ghazan, Speaker of the Knesset
and leader of the Israeli delegation) as well as (2) selected rosidents of The Hague, such
as War Crimes Tribunal Prosecutor Arbour, War Crimes Tribunal Chief Justice
McDonald, International Court of Justice Judge Higgins, Canadian Ambassador Meunier,
British Ambassador Spencer, Czech Ambassador Bambasova, and Polish Ambassador
Wodzynska-Walicka. Possible "Vital Voices" theme: The Role of Women in Emerging
Democracies.
? Louise Frechette -DepsecGen
-- Evening: Reception at Ambassador's Residence for mcmbers of official US delegation
and American participants in NGO Population Forum.
@ reception?
Other Fun Options for Saturday or Sunday:
-- Visit the Pieterskerk, the church in Leiden in which the Pilgrims worshipped before
leaving Europe. Followed by visit to Pilgrims' Museum, also in Leiden.
-- Gemeentemuseum, The Hague (modern art museum, beautiful 1930's design by the
great Dutch architect Berlage, recently restored and reopened, Mondriaan, etc.).
-- Madurodam (miniature village with all famous buildings in Holland - really an
amazing place and fun for all ages, right near the residence).
FROM: EXECUTIVE OFFICE
FAX NO.: + 31 70 310 9322
08-01-99 14:56 P.03
SENSITIVE
Sunday, February 7:
-- 1115: Attend American Protestant Church of The Hague (under leadership of Michael
Bailey, a great young Methodist minister).
-- 1430: Meet and groct Embassy community.
--
-- 1600: Address UN Population Forum's NGO Conference, Netherlands Congress
Center, The Hague.
-- 1700: Press event, Congress Center.
-- Evening cvent at Ambassador's residence with the cast of Ain't Misbehavin', featuring
leading jazz singer Denise Jannah.
Monday, February 8:
-- 1000: Keynote address to UN Population Forum, at the Congress Center, The Hague.
-- 1230: Attend luncheon for first ladies hosted by Mrs. Kok at Prime Minister's official
residence, Catshuis. Other participants: Mrs. Mubarak (Egypt), Mrs. Rollins (Ghana),
Mrs. Aguirre (El Salvador), others TBA.
-- 1500: GLOBE Program: Visit the American School of The Hague for discussions
with Dutch, American, and other international students participating in the Vice
President's GLOBE Program, under which students around the world collect
environmental data.
-- 1700-1800: Roundtable discussion with Dutch female leaders in The Hague's new
town hall, designed by US architect Richard Meyer. Moderated by Ambassador
Schneider. Possible participants: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Economic
Affairs Jorritsma, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Health Affairs Borst, Minister
for Development and Cooperation Herfkens, Transport Minister Netelenbos, and
President of the Second Chamber of Parliament (speaker-equivalent) van Nieuwenhoven.
Sponsored by John Adams Institute. Possible theme: Women's Rights and Children's
Rights are Human Rights. Possible cybercast.
-- 1900: Reception hosted by the Dutch Government for keynote speakers and heads of
delegations, at the Kurhaus.
FROM: EXECUTIVE OFFICE
FAX NO.: + 9322
08-01-99 P.04
SENSITIVE
-- Evening: Dinner hosted by Minister for Development and Cooperation Herfkens.
Tuesday, February 9:
-- Depart Valkenburg Airport.
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Patti
STICHTING JOHN ADAMS INSTITUUT
FOUNDER OF THE LECTURE SERIES AMERICAN LITERATURE TODAY AND AMERICAN FOCUS
"American culture, alive and well in Amsterdam.. Cynthia P. Schneider, Ambassador of the United States to the Netherlands.
Amsterdam, 16 November 1998
Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton
The White House
Washington D.C.
USA
Our ref: 98.310 Invitation to speak in the lecture series American Focus
Dear Mrs. Clinton:
To celebrate your work in health care for women and children, as well as the planned U.N. world population
conference in February next year, the John Adams Institute would like to invite you to speak in its lecture
series American Focus. Our audience is of course familiar with your book It Takes a Village and other Lessons
Children teach, published in 1995. We have in mind a date in February 1999, and sincerely hope you may be
able to fit a visit to Amsterdam into your schedule at that time for that month.
The John Adams Institute promotes cultural exchange between the Netherlands and America. Through its two
lecture series, American Literature Today (fiction) and American Focus (non-fiction), is has distinguished
itself over the past ten years as the organization for American culture in Europe. As the Gateway to Europe and
a city of bookshops and publishers, Amsterdam offers an internationally diverse, young, and sophisticated
audience.
Our podium has been graced in recent years by men and women who have shaped American history, including
Saul Bellow, Susan Sontag, Derek Walcott, Gore Vidal, John Irving, and Stephen Jay Gould, as well as former
Federal Reserve chairman, Paul Volcker, and architect Richard Meier. Malcolm Bradbury and Seamus Heaney
have appeared as special guests from other countries.
In September our program opened with Bill Viola and Peter Sellars. On February 4, 1999, the Honorable
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will speak about the American constitution. In spring 1999, our guests include
Dorothy Allison, Paul Auster, John Walsh, and Philip Glass.
We would like to ask you to give a lecture on a subject of your own choice, lasting about 45 minutes. Our
evenings open with a brief introductory talk by a Dutch moderator, who will also hold an open interview with
you and lead a question and answer session. The evenings are held in historical venues in the center of
Amsterdam, and usually last two hours (including a 20 minutes intermission).
We will be delighted if you can accept our invitation, and eagerly await your reply.
Yours
Anne
Allie Wertheim sincerely, Weithe.
enc.
The John Adams Institute is sustained by the generous donations of friends and benefactors, and is the 1998 recipient of the Canadian
Cultural Morit Award
Feb
United States Department of State
Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration
Washington, D.C. 20520-5824
TO:
Melanne Verveer
Chief of Staff
Office of the First Lady
FROM:
Julia V. Taft, Assistant Secretary
SUBJECT: The First Lady's Involvement in ICPD+5
The United Nations is leading a five-year review of the implementation of the
International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) Program of Action.
We would be honored to have the First Lady actively involved in the review on behalf of
the United States.
The ICPD held in Cairo in 1994 was the first time the international community
recognized that achieving population and development goals required collaboration
among the development, education, health, population and women's status fields.
Among the goals of the 20-year Program of Action were: achieving universal access to a
full range of reproductive health care and family planning services; reducing infant, child
and maternal mortality; and gaining universal access to education, particularly for girls.
The focal event of the UN five-year review will be an International Forum hosted
by The Netherlands, to be held at The Hague February 8-12, 1999. We are currently
working with interagency and NGO groups to prepare for the Forum. With her
experience, knowledge and interest in so many of the areas relevant to the ICPD, we feel
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that the First Lady would be the ideal choice to lead the U.S. delegation to the Forum.
Cynthia Schneider, our ambassador to The Netherlands, told me recently that Mrs.
Clinton has expressed an interest in the event. I understand that the UN Population Fund
is planning to send an invitation to the First Lady shortly.
Please call me at (202) 647-7360 if I can provide you with any additional
information on this matter. I hope you and the First Lady are as excited about this
opportunity as I am. I look forward to hearing from you soon.