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, reworking coverage and pondering on inhabitants and growth points.
Throughout this important 12 months, parliamentarians are collaborating within the 30-year evaluate, recognizing that whereas there was vital progress, that is threatened by multifaceted crises, together with the backsliding on the rights and decisions of girls and ladies and the affect 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 matters associated to demographic shifts, gender equality, younger individuals’s empowerment, water shortage and local weather change, which can kind 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 individuals see for addressing local weather change and guaranteeing that water shortage will not be exacerbated?
Mavsuma M. Muini: The Programme of Motion of the Worldwide Convention on Inhabitants and Improvement (ICPD) supplies foundation for multilateral cooperation throughout the whole spectrum of inhabitants points. Adopted in Cairo in 1994, the doc stays related and applicable within the context of up to date demographic processes.
With the adoption of the ICPD Programme of Motion, governments set an formidable agenda for attaining inclusive, equitable and sustainable international growth and contributed to vital enhancements in gender equality and ladies’s empowerment, poverty discount, elevated entry to well being and training, 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, ideas, 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 should be accelerated and scaled as much as obtain the Sustainable Improvement Objectives (SDGs) and the Paris Settlement on Local weather Change.
Environmental challenges, reminiscent of international local weather change, which is basically 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, reminiscent of droughts and floods, that are straining our ecosystems and having catastrophic penalties for international 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 12 months of Freshwater, 2005–2015 because the Worldwide Decade of Motion “Water for Life,” 2013 because the Worldwide 12 months of Water Cooperation, and 2018–2028 because the Worldwide Decade of Motion “Water for Sustainable Improvement,” have strengthened the understanding of the world neighborhood 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 12 months of Water Cooperation and the Worldwide Decade of Motion “Water for Sustainable Improvement,” 2018-2028, strengthened the understanding of the world neighborhood’s want to maneuver from discussions, expression of intentions and declaration of commitments to the implementation of sensible measures. This can be a new strategic purpose of the worldwide neighborhood 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 discipline of water assets administration, making an allowance for fashionable necessities and challenges. He additionally took the initiative to declare 2012 the Worldwide 12 months of Water Diplomacy to strengthen cooperation within the settlement of water relations.
The answer to water issues on a worldwide scale is turning into extra sophisticated resulting from local weather change, which is turning into more and more evident in all areas of the globe. Recognizing local weather change as the principle problem to water assets, the President of the Republic of Tajikistan proposed to declare 2025 the Worldwide 12 months of Glacier Conservation, in addition to to outline World Glacier Conservation Day and set up a particular Belief Fund beneath 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 12 months 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 12 months of Glacier Conservation. All these efforts of the President of the Republic of Tajikistan, revered Emomali Rahmon, are characterised by the need to draw extra consideration from the world neighborhood to fixing water points and bettering water cooperation.
IPS: As parliamentarians accountable for the legislative framework and monetary assets for the ICPD POA, what key messages would you wish to take to the Summit of the Future relating to reproductive well being rights and ladies’s empowerment for the area?
Muini: The dedication of parliamentarians is important as a bridge between the individuals and the federal government in creating assist 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 with a purpose 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 clear up joint duties and collectively monitor the implementation of laws on inhabitants and growth. It’s clear that the event challenges dealing with the worldwide neighborhood require the systematic involvement of all stakeholders in creating responses.
A world the place everybody can stay their lives with better dignity is inside attain. We should be sure that individuals’s rights and decisions stay central to making sure a sustainable future in a demographically various world. Parliamentarians should due to this fact focus their efforts in tandem with UNFPA, AFPPD and different regional or worldwide companions to guard individuals’s rights and desires, reproductive well being rights and ladies’s empowerment by bettering or introducing more practical legal guidelines.
The laws of the Republic of Tajikistan ensures younger individuals’s entry to well being care, reproductive well being and household planning providers, and coaching in wholesome life.
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 evaluations within the 2030 Improvement Agenda.
IPS: Whereas there’s a notion that the world is much behind the projected outcomes of the ICPD, there are successes to have fun. 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 individuals. Might 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 total, efficient and accelerated implementation of the ICPD Programme of Motion and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Improvement. This offered the political impetus for governments and all different related companions to return collectively, have fun the adoption of the ICPD Programme of Motion and have fun its success in advancing rights and decisions for all.
Our nations have made some progress in direction of attaining the targets of the Worldwide Convention on Inhabitants and Improvement, however concrete measures nonetheless should be taken to completely implement this system. This requires, inter alia, systematically integrating inhabitants dynamics into nationwide and worldwide methods and insurance policies, reflecting such elements 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 nations to remove social and financial inequalities, enhance the lives of all their peoples, make sure the well being and rights of girls, males, ladies and boys, together with sexual and reproductive rights and well being, promote gender equality and ladies’s well being, create an setting through which all individuals can stay in dignity, shield the setting, and shield the rights of girls, males, ladies 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 Objectives (SDGs) and the following 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.
Observe: 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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