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This brief was produced by the United Nation’s Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division.
A basic right of all couples and individuals is to decide freely and responsibly the number and spacing of their children and to have the information, education and means to do so. The twentieth anniversary in 2014 of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and the end of the Millennium Development Goals in 2015 prompt the question: what progress has been made in ensuring this right?