ICPD Beyond 2014 Issue Brief: Sustainable Development

As the world constructs a new agenda for global development, the ICPD Beyond 2014 Review, which falls between Rio+20 and the design of Sustainable Development Goals, articulates the continued relevance and unfulfilled implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action  (POA) within the context of a new development environment that is shaped by, and must respond to, a need to reconcile rising levels of consumption, threats to the environment, and growing wealth and income inequality. This issue brief discusses the core message of the ICPD – that a fundamental commitment to individual dignity and human rights is the basis of a resilient and sustainable future – and defines a set of pathways that are needed to address this quandary and to achieve sustainable development for all.