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World Population Day;amdt. Line 1:

EDM number 1531A1 in 2002-03, proposed by Jim Dobbin on 10/07/2003.

leave out from 'July' to 'improving' in line 10, and add 'notes recent investigations by the Peruvian Congress and the United States State Department that have concluded that the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has been complicit in coercive abortion and has forced sterilisation campaigns in Peru and China; regrets that the Government has not reconsidered its support for the UNFPA in the light of these investigations; encourages the Government to increase its international development budget to meet the need for food, clean water and primary health care in developing countries rather than devoting such funds to population control programmes; further notes that the most effective strategy to reduce maternal mortality is to ensure that all women are attended at birth by a skilled attendant backed by timely access to emergency obstetric care in the event of a life threatening complication; congratulates the United States Administration for allocating $15 billion towards fighting the scourge of HIV/AIDS in Africa; and is deeply concerned at the lack of sustained political commitment towards'.

This is a ammendment to 1531.

This motion has been signed by a total of 5 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Jim Dobbin10/07/2003Heywood & MiddletonLabour Co-operativeProposed
Kerry Pollard10/07/2003St AlbansLabourSigned
Joe Benton10/07/2003BootleLabourSigned
Ann Winterton10/07/2003CongletonConservativeSigned
Stephen Pound14/07/2003Ealing NorthLabourSigned

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