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EPF believes that parliamentarians have a duty and a responsibility to promote and defend the sexual and reproductive health and rights of all individuals, including their right to decide freely and responsibly the number and spacing of their children ; to defend and advance gender equality, gender equity and women’s empowerment; and to eliminate all forms of discrimination, coercion and violence against women. The ICPD Programme of Action and the Key Actions of its five-year review are essential in achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

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28-30 April 2008: Europe on the brink: who will decide over your body? Political developments, trends and norms that affect sexual and reproductive health and rights in Europe.

Representatives from International Organisations such as UNFPA and the Council of Europe, researchers, scientists, SRHR experts and NGO representatives gathered in Uppsala/Sweden to discuss the future agenda of sexual and reproductive health and rights, gender issues, women’s rights and how to deal with a growing opposition movement towards SRHR.

 

The 3-day conference that generated significant media coverage throughout Sweden not only took stock of the present SRHR situation in Europe from a political and legal point of view. Participants also engaged in strategic discussions on how to deal with new scientific, societal, cultural and political challenges, such as immigration, the integration of (ethnic) minorities and their access to SRHR, the influence of religion in decision-making processes, the growing opposition movement, the need for a comprehensive sex education in school, a better integration and a heightened respect for the needs of young people in this process.

 

The conference that was organised by the European Parliamentary Forum on Population and Development (EPF), the Swedish Family Planning Association RFSU and the Swedish All-party Parliamentary Group

 23 April 2008: World Malaria Day: Working lunch, European Parliament, Strasbourg
 
On the 23 April 2008, on the occasion of the first World Malaria Day, EPF organised a working lunch buffet in the European Parliament in Strasbourg, hosted by EPF’s Malaria Taskforce member Hon. Thierry Cornillet, MEP (ALDE, FR). Gathering about 20 participants, MEP Thierry Cornillet reminded his colleagues that "every year, Malaria causes more than one million deaths worldwide, touching particularly young children and pregnant women” and that it is Parliamentarians’ responsibility to urgently address this issue.

 

EUROMAPPING 2007: mapping European Development Aid & Population Assistance  Together with the German Foundation for World Population (DSW) we are pleased to present Euromapping 2007. EuroMapping is a instrument that combines data from multiple sources such as the European Commission, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the Nederlands Interdisciplinair Demografisch Instituut (NIDI) to produce analysis specifically calibrated to meet the needs of SRHR advocates and decision-makers.  “Euromapping” Study: European family planning aid for poor countries falls EPF and DSW call on EU governments to reverse worrying trend European policy makers neglect family planning in their development aid. According to the latest available data, the share of family planning aid in total OECD population assistance fell from 30 to 9% between 2001 and 2004. This leaves millions of people suffering unnecessarily from maternal and infant deaths, unintended pregnancies and unsafe abortions. DSW today called upon EU governments to reverse this worrying trend.                                                                    Click here for the online version of the pocket guide.