• Men, Listen Up

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  • Ban Nudity! Ban Nightlife!

    Updated: 2012-06-30 23:16:40
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  • ‘The Businessman Panicked’

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  • Girls Not Brides: The Global Partnership to End Child Marriage

    Updated: 2012-06-29 14:50:05
    In March, 2012, Population Media Center became a member of Girls Not Brides: The Global Partnership to End Child Marriage. Current and past PMC serial dramas have addressed early marriage, and our organizational emphasis on elevating the status of women around the world make this partnership a good fit moving forward. Girls Not Brides is [...]

  • Meeting the Need for Family Planning: Still a Long Way to Go

    Updated: 2012-06-28 14:31:49
    Thanks to the Population Institute for writing up a summary analysis of a recent study released by The Guttmacher Institute and UNFPA. Please note the call to action at the end, which urges and empowers you to write your senators and representatives on the issue at hand. You can access this call to action here: [...]

  • Events Population Matters

    Updated: 2012-06-28 11:50:29
    Skip to navigation Skip to content Population Matters For a sustainable future Events Home Get involved Events You might find these forthcoming events of : interest Breaking the Taboo on Human Population Growth London , United Kingdom 6 July 2012 Family Planning : Why Do We Need a London Summit London , United Kingdom 10 July 2012 World Population Day 2012 Global 11 July 2012 Growthbusters Film Presentation High Wycombe , United Kingdom 11 July 2012 Ten Billion Royal Court Theatre London , United Kingdom 12 July 2012 11 August 2012 United Nations Association of the United Kingdom Forum London , United Kingdom 14 July 2012 Breaking the Taboo About Human Population Growth London , United Kingdom 19 July 2012 Zero Carbon Britain Day United Kingdom 21 July 2012 Population Matters Annual

  • Seek true sustainability over growth

    Updated: 2012-06-27 14:52:48
    Below is a Letter to the Editor, printed in an Oklahoma newspaper. Near its conclusions, it suggests an interesting idea: organizing to force local Chambers of Commerce from around the country to renounce population growth as an appropriate objective . Given given sufficient local leadership and activism, it is plausible such efforts could catch on. [...]

  • Exponential population growth possibly a problem

    Updated: 2012-06-27 14:47:00
    Below is an opinion piece from a writer in Colorado. Exponential population growth possibly a problem See: http://www.coloradoan.com/article/20120623/COLUMNISTS14/306240020/Exponential-population-growth-possibly-problem?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|FRONTPAGE|s&nclick_check=1 By Glen Colton The Coloradoan Colorado, once known for uncrowded open spaces, scenic vistas, clean air and a high quality of life, is suffering from the negative impacts of our addiction to exponential population and economic growth. [...]

  • London Summit on Family Planning

    Updated: 2012-06-26 14:52:43
    The following information is in regards to the upcoming London Summit on Family Planning, which will take place on July 11th, 2012. The U.K. Government, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, UNFPA and other partners will host this groundbreaking summit that will mobilize global policy, financing, commodity, and service delivery commitments to support the rights [...]

  • Flotsam and Jetsam in the Human Wake

    Updated: 2012-06-25 14:59:20
    Below are snippets of two articles reporting on current and expected demises of species we are ostensibly sharing the planet with — though “sharing” seems an exceptionally poor description of what is actually occurring. First, reports of significant, already occurred drops in penguin populations (with much more expected). Second, the troubles occurring In Kenya between [...]

  • Why women’s needs must be part of the conversation at Rio

    Updated: 2012-06-25 14:51:44
    Thanks to Jenny Goldie for sending me the article below. It is interesting, and I think good, to see Michael Brune (executive director, Sierra Club) join Suzanne Ehlers (CEO, Population Action Intrenational) as co-author of this piece, originally published in Grist. See: http://grist.org/population/why-womens-needs-must-be-part-of-the-conversation-at-rio/ Why women’s needs must be part of the conversation at Rio By Suzanne Ehlers [...]

  • Counting the Cost (And Benefits) of Family Planning

    Updated: 2012-06-25 14:47:45
    The following article is provocative for several reasons, not least of which is the string of comments appearing below it. It was published on The Guardian’s website. See: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/sarah-boseley-global-health/2012/jun/20/maternal-health-contraception-and-family-planning Note: to access the Guttmacher report referenced, please proceed here (PDF): http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/AIU-2012-estimates.pdf Counting the cost of family planning As the London family planning summit looms closer, [...]

  • Superficial Fertility Analysis Defuses Little

    Updated: 2012-06-22 14:47:51
    The following essay, by one Mr. Bill King, was printed recently in the Houston Chronicle. There are plenty of otherwise true facts in the essay, along with a few errors, but the conclusions drawn by Mr. King indicate he has little understanding of the monumental effort that has gone into global fertility reduction — nor [...]

  • Brazil a model for slowing population growth – experts

    Updated: 2012-06-21 12:50:30
    The following article reports on the success Brazil has had in achieving below replacement level fertility. See: http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/brazil-a-model-for-slowing-population-growth-experts Brazil a model for slowing population growth – experts By Laurie Goering RIO DE JANEIRO (AlertNet) – Rosimere Lopes knows what she does not want in life. The 23-year-old, who lives in Cachoeirinha, a hillside slum in [...]

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