The High-Level Task Force for the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD)* envisions a world where all women and men, adult and young, have equal opportunities, freedoms and choices to forge their own life aspirations and destinies. This would be the outcome of a globally just, sustainably developed world, where human progress is gauged by the fulfillment of equal rights for all,based on principles of non-discrimination, participation and inclusiveness.

* The High-Level Task Force for ICPD is a group of 26 eminent and distinguished leaders acting in their individualcapacities, with a record of service as heads of state, ministers and parliamentarians, civil society, private sector andphilanthropic leaders, co-chaired by Former Presidents Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique and Tarja Halonen of Finland.