Jun 10 (IPS) – It has been 30 years for the reason that Worldwide Convention on Inhabitants and Improvement Programme of Motion (ICPD30) was adopted in Cairo, remodeling coverage and pondering on inhabitants and growth points.
Throughout this significant 12 months, parliamentarians are collaborating within the 30-year overview, recognizing that whereas there was vital progress, that is threatened by multifaceted crises, together with the backsliding on the rights and selections of girls and women and the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Regional parliamentarians are gathering this week on the sidelines of the Third Dushanbe Water Motion Decade Convention within the Republic of Tajikistan.
On the agenda are subjects associated to demographic shifts, gender equality, younger folks’s empowerment, water shortage and local weather change, which is able to type a milestone on the way in which to the UN Local weather Change Convention (COP29) in Baku in November 2024.
Forward of the assembly, IPS interviewed Mavsuma M. Muini, deputy chairperson of the Majlisi Namoyandagon Majlisi Oli (Parliament) of the Republic of Tajikistan.
IPS: What position do folks see for addressing local weather change and guaranteeing that water shortage isn’t exacerbated?
Mavsuma M. Muini: The Programme of Motion of the Worldwide Convention on Inhabitants and Improvement (ICPD) supplies a superb foundation for multilateral cooperation throughout the complete spectrum of inhabitants points. Adopted in Cairo in 1994, the doc stays related and acceptable within the context of latest demographic processes.
With the adoption of the ICPD Programme of Motion, governments set an formidable agenda for attaining inclusive, equitable and sustainable world growth and contributed to vital enhancements in gender equality and girls’s empowerment, poverty discount, elevated entry to well being and schooling, and environmental sustainability. The ICPD Program of Motion was a landmark within the historical past of human rights, girls’s empowerment and sustainable growth.
Based mostly on the ICPD agenda, we should now mobilize our supporters and our governments to implement the methods, rules, targets, and targets recognized within the Programme of Motion associated to demographics, local weather change, water and meals safety, and elevated entry to renewable vitality. Extra concrete and inclusive local weather options have to be accelerated and scaled as much as obtain the Sustainable Improvement Targets (SDGs) and the Paris Settlement on Local weather Change.
Environmental challenges, resembling world local weather change, which is essentially pushed by unsustainable patterns of manufacturing and consumption, are exacerbating threats to the well-being of future generations. This example is exacerbated by rising and recurrent excessive climate occasions, resembling droughts and floods, that are straining our ecosystems and having catastrophic penalties for world meals safety.
In view of the above, the water initiatives of the Republic of Tajikistan, supported by the UN Basic Meeting, together with the declaration of 2003 because the Worldwide Yr of Freshwater, 2005–2015 because the Worldwide Decade of Motion “Water for Life,” 2013 because the Worldwide Yr of Water Cooperation, and 2018–2028 because the Worldwide Decade of Motion “Water for Sustainable Improvement,” have strengthened the understanding of the world group of the necessity to transfer from the discussions on the expression of water for sustainable growth. The Worldwide Decade of Motion “Water for Life,” the 2013 Worldwide Yr of Water Cooperation and the Worldwide Decade of Motion “Water for Sustainable Improvement,” 2018-2028, strengthened the understanding of the world group’s want to maneuver from discussions, expression of intentions and declaration of commitments to the implementation of sensible measures. It is a new strategic objective of the worldwide group for the sake of life and humanity.
Talking on the World Water Discussion board in Istanbul, the President of the Republic of Tajikistan, Emomali Rakhmon, proposed adapting elementary worldwide authorized paperwork within the subject of water sources administration, bearing in mind trendy necessities and challenges. He additionally took the initiative to declare 2012 the Worldwide Yr of Water Diplomacy to strengthen cooperation within the settlement of water relations.
The answer to water issues on a world scale is turning into extra difficult attributable to local weather change, which is turning into more and more evident in all areas of the globe. Recognizing local weather change as the primary problem to water sources, the President of the Republic of Tajikistan proposed to declare 2025 the Worldwide Yr of Glacier Conservation, in addition to to outline World Glacier Conservation Day and set up a particular Belief Fund underneath the UN to advertise glacier conservation.
On December 14, 2022, the 77th session of the United Nations Basic Meeting unanimously adopted a decision on declaring 2025 the Worldwide Yr of Glacier Conservation, proposed by the Republic of Tajikistan. It’s distinctive in its essence, because it concurrently declares each the Worldwide Day and the Worldwide Yr of Glacier Conservation. All these efforts of the President of the Republic of Tajikistan, revered Emomali Rahmon, are characterised by the will to draw extra consideration from the world group to fixing water points and bettering water cooperation.
IPS: As parliamentarians accountable for the legislative framework and monetary sources for the ICPD POA, what key messages would you prefer to take to the Summit of the Future relating to reproductive well being rights and girls’s empowerment for the area?
Muini: The dedication of parliamentarians is important as a bridge between the folks and the federal government in creating help and an enabling setting to speed up and implement the SDGs to extend gender equality and violence growth.
Tajikistan, having endorsed the ICPD Programme of Motion, adopted it as a framework for attaining nationwide growth priorities and applied a number of insurance policies and strategic and sensible measures to make sure human rights and equality, that are elementary to the nation’s growth. The Authorities of Tajikistan has recognized reproductive well being as a key precedence of well being reform and reproductive health-oriented measures as priorities of the Nationwide Improvement Technique 2030 and SDGs.
It’s vital that as a way to implement the ICPD Program of Motion in Tajikistan, a Nationwide Council on Inhabitants and Improvement was established, which introduced collectively the efforts of the Parliament, the Authorities and civil society to develop and implement legislative acts, set and remedy joint duties and collectively monitor the implementation of laws on inhabitants and growth. It’s clear that the event challenges dealing with the worldwide group require the systematic involvement of all stakeholders in creating responses.
A world the place everybody can dwell their lives with higher dignity is inside attain. We should make sure that folks’s rights and selections stay central to making sure a sustainable future in a demographically various world. Parliamentarians should subsequently focus their efforts in tandem with UNFPA, AFPPD and different regional or worldwide companions to guard folks’s rights and wishes, reproductive well being rights and girls’s empowerment by bettering or introducing more practical legal guidelines.
The laws of the Republic of Tajikistan ensures younger folks’s entry to well being care, reproductive well being and household planning companies, and coaching in wholesome existence.
We’re totally dedicated to the continued implementation of the Programme of Motion of the Worldwide Convention on Inhabitants and Improvement and name for the inclusion of the conclusions and suggestions contained within the report of the Secretary-Basic and the outcomes of the regional opinions within the 2030 Improvement Agenda.
IPS: Whereas there’s a notion that the world is way behind the projected outcomes of the ICPD, there are successes to rejoice. The convention has deliberate a session about how parliamentarians have contributed to adopting legal guidelines and insurance policies addressing inequalities, positioning inhabitants dynamics within the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Improvement and empowering girls and younger folks. May you please share a few of these?
Muini: In April 2019, UN Member States on the UN Fee on Inhabitants and Improvement adopted a Political Declaration calling for the complete, efficient and accelerated implementation of the ICPD Programme of Motion and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Improvement. This supplied the political impetus for governments and all different related companions to come back collectively, rejoice the adoption of the ICPD Programme of Motion and rejoice its success in advancing rights and selections for all.
Our international locations have made some progress in direction of attaining the targets of the Worldwide Convention on Inhabitants and Improvement, however concrete measures nonetheless have to be taken to totally implement this system. This requires, inter alia, systematically integrating inhabitants dynamics into nationwide and worldwide methods and insurance policies, reflecting such components as inhabitants ageing and declining fertility, local weather change, pure disasters, battle and displacement, the reversal of the HIV pandemic, and comprehensively addressing worldwide migration within the context of the ICPD.
On this regard, we reaffirm our dedication to the ICPD Programme of Motion, recognizing that its implementation is crucial for international locations to eradicate social and financial inequalities, enhance the lives of all their peoples, make sure the well being and rights of girls, males, women and boys, together with sexual and reproductive rights and well being, promote gender equality and girls’s well being, create an setting wherein all folks can dwell in dignity, defend the setting, and defend the rights of girls, males, women and boys. We additionally reaffirm the commitments made at earlier ICPDs and emphasize our willingness to behave with a way of urgency.
We imagine that progress in direction of the Sustainable Improvement Targets (SDGs) and the subsequent steps in accelerating motion to attain the three transformative outcomes by 2030 can solely be achieved with an elevated give attention to defending and selling the rights and inclusive participation of girls, adolescents and youth.
Notice: The UNFPA, the Japan Belief Fund, the Asian Discussion board of Parliamentarians on Inhabitants and Improvement (AFPPD) and the Asian Inhabitants and Improvement Affiliation (APDA) supported this workshop.
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