四月,1994年,在纽约联合国总部,来自近200个国家和非政府组织的代表在9月在开罗举行的国际人口与发展会议上进行了更多的辩论之后,就一项行动纲领进行了谈判。筹备委员会第三次会议达成了相当大的共识。它对人口政策有了扩展的看法,更多地集中在满足个人需求上,而不是集中在实现严格的人口目标上。因此,它侧重于未满足的生殖健康服务需求(计划生育,基本的妇女保健,和与性传播疾病相关的服务)。它认为妇女地位和女性教育本身很重要,也是生育率的关键决定因素。在青少年获得堕胎服务和生殖健康服务方面仍然存在分歧。与早期的世界会议不同,世界上大多数国家都在努力达成共识,而梵蒂冈和几个小国(贝宁,马耳他,洪都拉斯,和尼加拉瓜)反对这些服务。美国全国天主教主教大会在《行动纲领》中不想要的一些主题是提到减少不安全堕胎的发生率,推广使用安全套预防艾滋病毒/艾滋病,甚至是安全的母亲。美国和日本承诺大幅增加人口援助。一些欧洲国家担心如何分配其捐款。美国负责全球事务的副部长和由23名女性组成的美国代表团参加了第三次筹备委员会。大多数美国代表来自非政府组织。许多国家代表是妇女。许多国家接受了妇女核心小组的建议。美国的优先事项是促进普及各种高质量的计划生育和生殖健康服务;提高妇女地位;促进儿童生存;满足青少年需求;增强男子在生殖健康中的作用和责任;加强家庭;和可持续发展。
In April, 1994, at UN headquarters in New York, delegates from almost 200 countries and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) negotiated a Programme of Action to be ratified following more debate at the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo in September. A sizable
consensus emerged for this Preparatory Committee III (PrepCom) meeting. It has an expanded view of population policy that centers more on meeting individual needs and less on achieving strict demographic goals. Thus, it focuses on the unmet need for reproductive health services (family planning, basic women\'s health care, and services linked to sexually transmitted diseases). It considers women\'s status and female education as being important themselves as well as key determinants of fertility rates. Disagreement over access to abortion services and reproductive health services for adolescents remain. Unlike earlier world conferences, most of the world is working towards a
consensus, while the Vatican and just a few small countries (Benin, Malta, Honduras, and Nicaragua) object to these services. Some topics that US National Conference of Catholic Bishops did not want in the Programme of Action were references to reducing the incidence of unsafe abortion, promoting condom use to prevent HIV/AIDS, and even safe motherhood. The US and Japan have committed sizable increases in population assistance. Some European countries are concerned about how their contributions would be allocated. US Undersecretary for Global Affairs and a mostly female 23-member US delegation attended PrepCom III. Most of the US delegates were from NGOs. Many country delegates were women. Many countries accepted recommendations of the women\'s caucus. The US\'s priorities are promotion of universal access to the full range of high quality family planning and reproductive health services; increasing women\'s status; child survival promotion; serving adolescent needs; augmenting the role and responsibility of men in reproductive health; strengthening the family; and sustainable development.