The case against holding any more women’s rights conferences

The case against holding any more women’s rights conferences

The road that led to this week’s International Conference on Population and Development in Nairobi, the world’s largest and most important meeting on reproductive health, started in Cairo 25 years ago. The Cairo summit was at the time unprecedented. “It changed the way we look at population development,” said Sarah Craven, a UN Population Fund executive in Washington, DC.