Ukraine's report

We are on the eve of the 10th anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development organized by the United Nations Population Fund and the United Nations demography department on economical and social information analysis and politics which was held in Cairo on September 5-13, 1994. The conference was representative in the world-wide fame: 180 countries and more than 1500 non-governmental organizations took part in it. The Conference adopted the Program of Action in the field of demo-economic relations, elaborated the principles of demographic policy and its main directions. The principles and recommendations of the Program of Action based on the fundamental human rights became the basis for the activities in improving the national demographic policies aiming to increase their efficiency. In the Program of Action till 2015 adopted at the Conference, among its main components there is a statement “the state governments must create the necessary home institutional mechanisms and favorable social environment on all society levels to guarantee that population factors are taken into consideration in a proper way for decision making and administrative processes of all relevant state institutions responsible for economical, ecological and social policies and programs”. Principles and recommendations elaborated and adopted by the International Conference on Population and Development had to become a way guide in forming the national demographic policy of the young Ukrainian State.

ICPD+10 — Ukraine's report (en) (388,7kb)