Population Sub-Committees: Lifting unilateral coercive measures imposed on Syria

Damascus-Sana

The Sub-Committees called for the lifting of unilateral coercive measures imposed on the Syrian people by some Western countries and to continue to work to secure the basic needs of infrastructure, school buildings and health institutions to ensure the return of the population to their areas of origin from which they had been displaced by terrorism.

During the discussion on the challenges and priorities facing the issue of population locally in the light of the Cairo International Conference on Population and Development, held in 1994 within the workshop organized by the Syrian Population Commission in cooperation with the United Nations Population Fund in Damascus Hotel Damascus, participants stressed the development of appropriate solutions to address the social phenomena caused by the war Terrorism in Syria and its gap in population indicators, especially with regard to school drop-out, gender-based violence “early marriage, women's denial of education” and the difficulty of accessing reproductive health services in some countries. Taq.

The head of the Syrian Commission for Family and Population Affairs, Dr. Mohammad Akram al-Qash pointed out that the population issue needs a new type of strategic planning that takes into account the specificity of each governorate. Post-war Syria and the sustainable development agenda as well as discussing what has been achieved from 2014 to date.

Al-Qash pointed out that what was discussed is in large part in the national working paper on the population issue in the next phase, which Syria will present at the Nairobi International Conference on Population and Development next month.

For his part, Dr. Omar Blanc, the representative of the United Nations Population Fund in Syria, praised the fruitful cooperation between the Syrian government and the Fund, where the latter works according to themes focused on enabling women to access high quality reproductive health services and combating gender-based violence and empowering women to choose their own decisions and enhance the skills of youth. Support government institutions in collecting and analyzing population and development data.

He noted the role of the Population Sub-Committees in accurately identifying population needs, monitoring and tracking the implementation of population policy.

Director of Population at the Commission Waddah Rakkad explained that Syria has achieved a large part of the recommendations of the Cairo Conference through various targeted programs during which the development indicators improved qualitatively until 2010, but the terrorist war on Syria affected the achievements on the issue of population, pointing out that work is being done today to bridge the gap in These indicators are cross-ambulance programs and strategic plans in collaboration with various actors.

It is noteworthy that the Syrian Commission for Family and Population Affairs has completed updating the population papers of the governorates of Homs, Tartous and Sweida, while work is underway to update the data of the rest of the governorates to be completed by the end of the year.

Ines Svan

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