That newfound sharing of ideas and experiences was a trend that could not be easily reversed. ![]() “Networking is now phenomenal among women widely separated by geography and culture”, she said. ![]() New policies and laws were being put in place, in many places because of the influence of Cairo and women would know about them because of the Internet, she continued. Others were more optimistic, as Cairo had been a seismic shift not easily reversed. Some inside the United Nations system feared that a lobby led by an unlikely combination of conservative Middle Eastern nations, the United States and the Holy See would mount a major drive to dilute or undo the language. A broader theme that ran through the Conference was the realization that, in talking about curtailing population growth and the complex relationships between population and development, or population and the protection of the environment, women had to be a central factor.Īt “Cairo+10”, she said, the same wide range of people and opinions heard in Cairo were beginning to be heard again. Referring to the 1994 Cairo Conference on Population and Development, she said that revolution acknowledged that people –- women and men, mothers and fathers –- and not governments were the best judges of how many children to bring into the world, and where and when. ![]() “Out of Cairo came no less than a revolution”, Barbara Crossette, former United Nations Bureau Chief of The New York Times, told the thirty-seventh session of the Commission on Population and Development this morning, as she delivered a keynote address on the theme “Has the Cairo Consensus Lost Momentum: A Journalist’s View”. POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION TOLD 1994 CAIRO CONFERENCE PROMPTED ‘NO LESS THAN A REVOLUTION’,
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