A report on Bucharest. The World Population Conference and the Population Tribune, August 1974

Abstract

The United Nations World Population Conference in Bucharest, Romania, in August 1974, was the first international conference of governments to discuss population and development. It represented a breakthrough in a field that had, to that time, largely focused on technical aspects of population regulation-family planning programs, distribution and dissemination of contraceptive devices and methods, and research in demographic processes -and in which the major conferences had largely involved professionals in the field. The foresight and dedication of the United Nations system made possible a broadening of this approach to population issues.