Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development 1994, para. 3.13
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Widespread poverty remains the major challenge to development efforts. Poverty is often accompanied by unemployment, malnutrition, illiteracy, low status of women, exposure to environmental risks and limited access to social and health services, including reproductive health services which, in turn, include family planning. All these factors contribute to high levels of fertility, morbidity and mortality, as well as to low economic productivity. Poverty is also closely related to inappropriate spatial distribution of population, to unsustainable use and inequitable distribution of such natural resources as land and water, and to serious environmental degradation.
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
International Conference on Population and Development
Document type
Declaration / Confererence outcome document
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
Environment
Health
Poverty
Person(s) affected
Women
Year
1994
Paragraph type
Other
Reference
Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (1994), para. 3.13.