Confounding the Critics: Cairo, Five Years On

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Summary: Published by HERA, the National Forum of Women and Population Policy, and the Feminist Milennium (New York: 1999). Summarizes the 1999 Coyococ Conference, convened by HERA (Health, Empowerment, Rights & Accountability) to assess progress on the Cairo agenda and identify strategies for moving forward at the upcoming five-year review of ICPD. Includes a précis of and excerpts from the Conference's two keynote addresses, summaries of the Conference's two panel presentations, an overview of 10 case studies in positive implementation of ICPD, a summary of working group recommendations, and the full text of the Call to Action agreed to by Conference participants and used in the ICPD Plus Five Review (31 pages).