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What we believeTable of Contents:What we believe 02Message from EPF President 03Who we are 04SRHR and the MDGS 05What we do Taking the Lead 06• Field Visits• Parliamentary ActionWhat we do BUILDING CONSENSUS 14• Advocacy at the UN and the PACE• Conferences, Roundtables and Seminars• IPCI• Declarations and Calls to Action• EPF Council MeetingsThe European Parliamentary Forumon Population and Developmentbelieves Parliamentarians have theopportunity and the responsibilityto promote sexual and reproductivehealth and rights and genderequality, which are core elementsof human dignity and are centralto human development.What we do WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP 26• All Party Parliamentary Groups• The EPF SecretariatSPECIAL INITIATIVES 30• Young Decision Makers• Launched in 2006EPF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 32MAP OF GLOBAL REACH 3402
Message from THE EPF PresidentIt is a great pleasure for me to present the annual report of the European Parliamentary Forum on Populationand Development which features highlights of the five years since EPF’s establishment in 2000.The European Parliamentary Forum on Population and Development (EPF) is the newest regional Parliamentarynetwork concerned with sexual and reproductive health and rights. It has filled a gap in SRHR advocacy inEurope by offering a pan-European platform for the exchange of information, experiences and ideas amongEurope’s political decision-makers. Recent European leadership on SRHR would not have been possible withouta group of well-informed and influential Parliamentarians who made the right decisions at the right time.In the past five years, EPF expanded its membership from seven to twenty-five all-party Parliamentarygroups (APPGs) and has built relationships with Parliamentarians and SRHR advocates in an additional ninecountries in Europe. Altogether, by 2005 EPF had worked in 83% of European countries, with member APPGsin over half of the Parliaments in Europe.EPF has mobilised Parliamentarians every time the ICPD Programme of Action has come under attack byopponents of free choice. I am extremely proud that APPGs around Europe have been instrumental in settingpolicies to integrate HIV/AIDS into a broader SRHR context, expand human rights protections to same-sexcouples, mobilised additional funding for ICPD-related programmes and key actors such as UNFPA and IPPF,and that we have chosen to condemn policies such as the Global Gag Rule and funding cuts to reproductivehealth providers.If we in Europe truly believe that individuals have the right to choose freely and responsibly about their ownsexual and reproductive well-being, this consequently means that we as Parliamentarians must ourselvesmake choices regarding the policies, international agreements and funding that enable this right.I hope this report will educate and inspire an ever increasing number of Parliamentarians that we can,individually and collectively, make a difference in the lives of many people around the world.Ruth Genner,MP Switzerland03
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