The decennial United Nations Population Conferences¹ have been instrumental in shaping the policy agenda of the twentieth century and setting a new agenda for the twenty-first century. Notable among these meetings, the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) held in Cairo² brought about a paradigm shift for population and development discussions with the recognition that people’s rights, choices and well-being are critical facets of sustainable development. In 2010, the 20-year Program of Action from the Cairo Conference was extended by the UN General Assembly in order to “fully meet its goals and objectives”. The ICPD Program of Action, with its vision of integrated development, foreshadowed the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development that was adopted in 2015. Upon the adoption of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the international community committed to put “people, planet and prosperity” at the center of sustainable development with a leave no one behind motto. In 2019, the 52 Session of the UN Commission on Population and Development as well as the Nairobi Summit on ICPD+25, emphasized that there can be no SDGs without the ICPD.