The CAIRO-LISBOA 2024 Conference, with the theme “The challenges of sexual and reproductive health and rights in Portugal, Lusophone countries and Latin America”, will be held online from Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Portugal), on December 5 and 6, bringing together national and international participants for a series of sessions with papers from invited experts, researchers, activists and students from different disciplines. The conference will be held in Portuguese and Spanish.

Registration for the event is free but compulsory.

The International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) held in Cairo in 1994 was a decisive step towards the introduction and articulation of the concepts of sexual and reproductive health and women's rights and empowerment in the dominant discourse on development policies at a global level.

The ICPD marked a historic global consensus on sexual and reproductive health and rights, outlining a common commitment to achieving sustainable development with equity for all, in a context also marked by the resurgence and international consolidation of conservative sexual and reproductive policies and movements. Alongside notable successes, it also faces old and new challenges that call for global collaboration and a continued commitment to achieving all the goals set.
Thirty years after the historic consensus reached at the ICPD, it is important to draw up a global review of the achievements and challenges at a meeting that aims to contribute to the debate on the legacy of Cairo and the main challenges facing sustainable development.

We intend to mark and commemorate the 30th anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development by bringing together researchers and key people in program development and in the reproductive health and rights movements, with a particular focus on Lusophone countries and Latin America. For this meeting, the aim is to articulate different perspectives around global issues related to population and a more transformative and inclusive notion of human rights, both in terms of the people covered and the issues addressed, facing the new challenges that have arisen, including resistance and attacks against gender equality, sexuality, reproductive freedom and self-determination.

Organizing Committee

• Dulce Morgado Neves, CIES-Iscte (Portugal)
• Elsa Pegado, CIES-Iscte (Portugal)
• Mariana Anginho Évora, CIES-Iscte (Portugal)
• Mário JDS Santos, CIES-Iscte (Portugal)
• Pía Rodríguez-Garrido, Universidad de O’Higgins (Chile)
• Sónia Pintassilgo, CIES-Iscte (Portugal)
• Violeta Alarcão, CIES-Iscte (Portugal)

Scientific Committee

• Alexandra Tereso, ESEL (Portugal)
• Alice Frade, P&D Factor (Portugal)
• Cadija Mané, INASA (Guiné-Bissau)
• Carla Silva, Universidade Federal de São Carlos (Brasil)
• Carolina Ferrante, CONICET Universidad Nacional de Quilmes (Argentina)
• Elga Carvalho, GIEPS/Uni-CV (Cabo Verde)
• Jovita Ortiz, Universidad de Chile (Chile)
• Manuel Ortiz, Universidad San Sebastián (Chile)
• Martin Jaime Ballero, Universidad Nacional de San Marcos (Perú)
• Paola Sesio, CIESAS (México)
• Raquel Costa, Universidade Lusófona (Portugal)
• Sónia Pintassilgo, CIES-Iscte (Portugal)
• Teresa Joaquim, Universidade Aberta (Portugal)
• Violeta Alarcão, CIES-Iscte (Portugal)