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	e-zine nEUws, 30th edition 4 June 2003: European Parliamentarians Declare ICPD Essential for Future Progress in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights The EC's Staff Working Document on the Follow-up to the International Conference on Financing for Development in Monterrey can be accessed here: 2-3 June 2003: Alexandroupolis informal ministerial meeting (2-3/06): Charting the role of accession countries in EU development policy 2 June 2003: ACP: Package to fight killer diseases and crippling debt in developing countries


	4 June 2003: European Parliamentarians Declare ICPD Essential for Future Progress in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights The Inter-European Parliamentary Forum on Population and Development (IEPFPD) held its Third Council meeting in the Portuguese Senate on 26 and 27 May 2003 in Lisbon upon the invitation of the President of the Portuguese Parliament, Mr Joao Bosco da Mota Amaral, the Portuguese Parliamentary Group on Population and Development and the Portuguese FPA. Parliamentarians from over 20 European countries met and discussed resource mobilisation, creating and enabling environment and overcoming barriers and obstacles to implementation of the ICPD.


	The EC's Staff Working Document on the Follow-up to the International Conference on Financing for Development in Monterrey can be accessed here: http://europa.eu.int/comm/development/body/tmp_docs/SEC(2003)569.pdf


	2-3 June 2003: Alexandroupolis informal ministerial meeting (2-3/06): Charting the role of accession countries in EU development policy Development Ministers and officials from the European Union and the 10 accession countries met to discuss the future of the EU's post-enlargement development policy.


	2 June 2003: ACP: Package to fight killer diseases and crippling debt in developing countries Ministers from 79 developing countries and the 15 European Union Member States have agreed to allocate Euro 686 million of funds to combat lethal communicable diseases and ease the debt burden in developing countries.


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USA: Global Gag Rule Rescinded

Today, US-American president Barack Obama rescinded "The Mexico City Policy", also known as the “Global Gag Rule”. First imposed by the Reagan Administration in 1984, this policy directed the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to withhold funds from foreign NGOs that provide abortion information or counselling to women or lobbied foreign governments to legalise or make abortion available. For more information, go here.

Report: Maternal Health in Gaza

The Lancet.com has published a serious of report from for health-care workers on the humanitarian situation in Gaza. To read a report by Hatem Shurrab, an aid worker with Islamic Relief, on the current maternal health situation in Gaza, go here.


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e-zine nEUws, 30th edition

4 June 2003: European Parliamentarians Declare ICPD Essential for Future Progress in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

The EC's Staff Working Document on the Follow-up to the International Conference on Financing for Development in Monterrey can be accessed here:

2-3 June 2003: Alexandroupolis informal ministerial meeting (2-3/06): Charting the role of accession countries in EU development policy

2 June 2003: ACP: Package to fight killer diseases and crippling debt in developing countries