World Chronicle 981: Thoraya A. Obaid, UNFPA
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Population, Education and Poverty
World population is expected to increase from 6.4 billion today to 8.9 billion by 2050. Most of that growth will take place in the world’s poorest countries, but UN agencies dealing with population issues are not talking about restricting population growth. Ever since the 1994 Cairo Conference on Population and Development the focus has been on a human-rights approach: empowering women to make choices about their reproductive health.
What role does education play in helping women with their reproductive health – and can it help reverse the spread of AIDS? What kinds of services are needed to make sure that complications in childbirth don’t kill a woman every sixty seconds? How are religious teachings and cultural traditions accommodated when working in the field of population and reproductive health?
These are some of the topics addressed by Thoraya A. Obaid, the Executive Director of UNFPA, in this edition of World Chronicle.
World population is expected to increase from 6.4 billion today to 8.9 billion by 2050. Most of that growth will take place in the world’s poorest countries, but UN agencies dealing with population issues are not talking about restricting population growth. Ever since the 1994 Cairo Conference on Population and Development the focus has been on a human-rights approach: empowering women to make choices about their reproductive health.
What role does education play in helping women with their reproductive health – and can it help reverse the spread of AIDS? What kinds of services are needed to make sure that complications in childbirth don’t kill a woman every sixty seconds? How are religious teachings and cultural traditions accommodated when working in the field of population and reproductive health?
These are some of the topics addressed by Thoraya A. Obaid, the Executive Director of UNFPA, in this edition of World Chronicle.
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Personal Subjects
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Creator
Tony Marshall, Director
Contributors
Michele Zaccheo, Executive Producer;
Tony Jenkins, Moderator;
Joe Salter/Doug Wood, Music;
Mechthild Schmidt, Graphics;
James DeStefan, Technical Director;
Aubrey Smith, Lights;
Richard Lipton, Gary Roth, Enzo Bartoccioli, Camera;
Charles Rini, Brian E. Osborn, Eddie Morales, Michelle Rogers, Mark Robbins, Videotape;
Dave Ganz, Video;
Gary Roth, Audio;
Michael Messina, CG/Teleprompter;
Sheila Poinesette, Production Assistant;
Marija Rokuiziene, Floor Manager
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DVCPRO
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4:3
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828454
Asset ID
2122719
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