Commission
Forty-first session
7 - 11 April 2008
Theme
Population distribution, urbanization, internal migration and development
Bureau Members
Chairperson:
Mr. Ivan Piperkov (Bulgaria)
Vice-Chairpersons:
Mr. Hossein Gharibi (Islamic Republic of Iran), Mr. Fredrick Matwang’a (Kenya), Ms. Alicia Melgar (Uruguay) and Ms. Pauline Eizema (Netherlands)
Keynote Addresses
Keynote addresses by:
- Mr. David Satterthwaite on Urbanization and internal migration: Their relevance for sustainable development (text, presentation)
- Mr. Mark Montgomery on Urban growth and poverty
- Ms. Helen Zille on Urban governance, lessons learned and challenges ahead: The example of Cape Town
- Mr. Eduardo Moreno on Urban slums
Introductory Statements and Official Documentation
- Statement by Mr. Sha Zukang, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs
- Statement by Ms. Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, Executive Director, United Nations Population Fund
- Statement by Ms. Hania Zlotnik, Director, United Nations Population Division
Agenda Item 2
E/CN.9/2008/1 - Provisional agenda
E/CN.9/2008/2 - Report on the Meetings of the Bureau of the Commission on Population and Development
E/CN.9/2008/L.1 - Note by the Secretariat containing the organization of work of the session
Statement by Mr. Leo Merores, President, ECOSOC
Agenda Item 3
Statement by Mr. Thomas Buettner, Assistant Director, Population Division
E/CN.9/2008/3 - Report of the Secretary-General on world population monitoring, focusing on population distribution, urbanization, internal migration and development
E/CN.9/2008/3/Corr.1 - Corrigendum: Report of the Secretary-General on world population monitoring, focusing on population distribution, urbanization, internal migration and development
Statement by Mr. Jose Miguel Guzman, Technical Support Division, UNFPA
E/CN.9/2008/4 - Report of the Secretary-General on monitoring of population programmes focusing on population distribution, urbanization, internal migration and development
Statement by Ms. Ann Pawliczko, Population and Development Branch, UNFPA
E/CN.9/2008/5 - Report of the Secretary-General on the flow of financial resources for assisting in the implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development
E/CN.9/2008/NGO/1 - Statement submitted by The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), a non-governmental organization in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council
E/CN.9/2008/NGO/2 - Statement submitted by the World Youth Alliance, a nongovernmental organization in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council
E/CN.9/2008/NGO/3 - Statement submitted by Population Action International, a nongovernmental organization in roster consultative status with the Economic and Social Council
E/CN.9/2008/L.4 - Draft resolution submitted by the Chairman on the basis of informal consultations
Agenda Item 4
No official documentation
Agenda Item 5
Statement by Mr. Armindo Miranda, Senior Population Affairs Officer, Office of the Director, Population Division
E/CN.9/2008/6 - Report of the Secretary-General on Programme implementation and progress of work in the field of population in 2007: Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs
E/CN.9/2008/7 - Proposed strategic framework for the period 2010-2011: Subprogramme 6, Population, of programme 7, Economic and social affairs
Agenda Item 6
E/CN.9/2008/L.2 - Note by the Secretariat containing the provisional agenda for the forty-second session of the Commission
Agenda Item 7
E/CN.9/2008/8 and E/2008/25 - Report of the Commission on its forty-first session
http://daccess-ods.un.org/access.nsf/Get?Open&DS;=E/2008/25⟪=RCountry Statements
Country
UN System Statements
- CELADE
- ESCAP
IGO/NGO Statements
Closing Statements
- Statement by Mr. Ivan Piperkov, Chairman, Forty-first Session of the Commission on Population and Development
- Statement by Mr. Thomas Stelzer, Assistant-Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs, Department of Economic and Social Affairs
- Statement by Ms. Hania Zlotnik, Director, United Nations Population Division
Side Event
- Rethinking Policies for a Sustained Urban Future - A Special Side Event Organized by the Government of the Republic of Bulgaria, UNFPA and UN-Habitat