A/CONF.171/13 English Page 10 objectives contained in the present 20-year Programme of Action, which address many of the fundamental population, health, education and development challenges facing the entire human community, would result in world population growth during this period and beyond at levels below the United Nations medium projection. 1.5. The International Conference on Population and Development is not an isolated event. Its Programme of Action builds on the considerable international consensus that has developed since the World Population Conference at Bucharest in 1974 3/ and the International Conference on Population at Mexico City in 1984, 4/ to consider the broad issues of and interrelationships between population, sustained economic growth and sustainable development, and advances in the education, economic status and empowerment of women. The 1994 Conference was explicitly given a broader mandate on development issues than previous population conferences, reflecting the growing awareness that population, poverty, patterns of production and consumption and the environment are so closely interconnected that none of them can be considered in isolation. 1.6. The International Conference on Population and Development follows and builds on other important recent international activities, and its recommendations should be supportive of, consistent with and based on the agreements reached at the following: (a) The World Conference to Review and Appraise the Achievements of the United Nations Decade for Women: Equality, Development and Peace, held in Nairobi in 1985; 5/ (b) The World Summit for Children, held in New York in 1990; 6/ (c) The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992; 7/ (d) The International Conference on Nutrition, held in Rome in 1992; 8/ (e) The World Conference on Human Rights, held in Vienna in 1993; 9/ (f) The International Year of the World’s Indigenous People, 1993, 10/ which would lead to the International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People; 11/ (g) The Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States, held in Barbados in 1994; 12/ (h) The International Year of the Family, 1994. 13/ 1.7. The Conference outcomes are closely related to and will make significant contributions to other major conferences in 1995 and 1996, such as the World Summit for Social Development, 14/ the Fourth World Conference on Women: Action for Equality, Development and Peace, 15/ the Second United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II), the elaboration of the Agenda for Development, as well as the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the United Nations. These events are expected to highlight further the call of the 1994 Conference /...