Africa/Global: Parliamentarians strive to commit the United Nations to establish a ninth Millennium Development Goal

Parliamentarians from around the world have called for greater action to defend sexual and reproductive rights of all individuals. Over 130 parliamentarians from 90 countries committed themselves to a set of actions that would help realize the ICPD Programme of Action, agreed upon ten years ago by the governments of the world in Cairo, with the goal of bringing about sexual and reproductive rights and health for all by 2015. The missing MDG: Universal access to reproductive health services by 2015 is for millions of women and men simply a matter of life and death.