title: Establishment of Parliamentary Council on Population and Development, June 1987.
abstract: The Government of Liberia has established a Parliamentary Council on Population and Development which is to have the following duties: a) to work to enact a national population policy; b) to mobilize effective financial support for population policy and programs; c) to encourage evaluation and implementation of policies to promote population and family and sex education in and out of school; d) to improve child health and survival; and e) to spearhead population awareness campaigns. The Council is also to "initiate legislation in support of policies that will help improve the status of women by ensuring the provision of increased education strategies, equal opportunities in employment and education, family planning, including natural family planning, elimination of cultural practices and beliefs which discriminate against women, and birth spacing that will enable spouses or couples to have the pregnancies they want and when they want them, confident that they can adequately take care of their offspring and enrich their quality of life from infancy to maturity, as well as ensuring health of mothers."
mesh_terms: D000349:Africa; D017954:Africa South of the Sahara; D000354:Africa, Western; D003906:Developing Countries; D004467:Economics; D016656:Family Planning Policy; D007878:Legislation as Topic; D007988:Liberia; D011155:Population Control; D011640:Public Policy; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014933:Women's Rights
keywords: Africa; Africa South Of The Sahara; Developing Countries; Economic Factors; English Speaking Africa; Family Planning Policy--legal aspects; Laws And Statutes; Liberia; Policy; Population Control; Population Policy--legal aspects; Population Programs--legal aspects; Social Policy; Social Protection--women; Socioeconomic Factors; Western Africa; Women's Status--legal aspects