World Population Day today

Desk Report: World Population Day-2019 is being observed today (Thursday) across the country as elsewhere in the world with a call to develop nations with family planning and empowering people.

The purpose of the day is to raise awareness of global population issues, its challenges and opportunities available to address the same.

The theme of the day is ’25 years of ICPD: Accelerating the Promise’.

President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina issued separate massages on the occasion urging all concerned to make family planning services easily accessible to the people and wished success of the day’s programme.

In 1989, the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme recommended that 11 July would be observed by the international community as World Population Day, a day to focus attention on the urgency and importance of population issues.

 

risingbd/July 11, 2019/Mukul